CONVERSION OF SOLID NEOPLASMS INTO ASCITES TUMORS
CONVERSION OF SOLID NEOPLASMS INTO ASCITES TUMORS
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实体瘤转化为腹水瘤
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发表时间:
1955
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
E. Klein
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作者:
G. Klein;E. Klein
In 1927, Hessel showed that the Flexner-Jobling rat carcinoma can be transmitted by ascitic fluid that develops during the growth of the tumor in the peritoneal cavity. He recommended the procedure as an easy and convenient means for tumor transplantation. This finding was confirmed one year later by Koch,2 who found that this method of transmission results in an increased percentage of takes when compared to subcutaneous transplantation. Koch was trying to prove in his experiments an assumed protozoan etiology of cancer, and many of his arguments have lost interest. Some of his findings are still important, however, particularly his description of the gradually increasing cellularity of the ascitic fluid with time, the preservation of transmissibility upon cold storage, the loss of activity after exposure to 37” C. and after filtration, the technique to obtain normal peritoneal fluid from healthy rats for comparative studies; also the emphasis placed on the necessity of wet fixation to preserve cytological detail in the exudate cells. Two of Koch’s collaborators, Loewenthal and J a h ~ ~ , ~ have tried repeatedly to perform similar experiments with the Ehrlich mouse carcinoma, but were a t first quite unsuccessful in their efforts. In the course of three years, they failed to obtain other than solid growth after the intraperitoneal inoculation of the tumor. I n 1932, using the same procedure, they suddenly obtained a carcinomatous ascitic fluid containing a large concentration of neoplastic cells. They established a new transfer line of the Ehrlich carcinoma, carried by serial intraperitoneal passage of peritoneal exudate, and called it “ascites tumor.” They have pointed out the possibility of exact inoculum dosage with this material and have found a correlation between the number of cells inoculated and survival time. They have also realized that small inocula often fail to produce ascites and give rise only to solid tumors. The ascites tumor of Loewenthal and Jahn found wide use in experimentation in Germany soon after its description and, in more recent years, elsewhere. Lettr64p one of the first to study its various characteristics in detail, emphasized the advantages of this tumor form in chemotherapeutic experiments. Klein et ~ 1 . ~ 9 ‘3 have recommended it for studies on the chcmical composition of tumor cells, and Warburg and Hieplers were the first to use it in metabolic experiments. I ts extraordinary value in studies on chromosome number and morphology was recognized by Hauschka and Levan.lo Following its discovery, there was a tendency to rcgard the ascites tumor 01 Loewenthal and Jahn as a very special case or variant of transplantable tumors