Table 1.
Comparison of Tumorigenic Capacity of Sphere-forming and Normal Cultured Huh7 Cells
No. of Mice with Tumor Formation/Total No. of Mice with Cell Injection | ||||
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Phonotypes | No. of cells injected | 2 Weeks | 4 Weeks | 6 Weeks |
Sphere-forming cells | 5 × 102 | 2/6 | 4/6 | 4/6 |
1 × 103 | 4/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
Normal cultured cells | 1 × 104 | 0/6 | 0/6 | 0/6 |
1 × 105 | 0/6 | 0/6 | 0/6 |