The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 131, 321-330,
Copyright © 1970 by The Rockefeller University Press
HUNDRED DAY LEUKEMIA: PREFERENTIAL INDUCTION IN RAT BY PULSE-DOSES OF 7,8,12-TRIMETHYLBENZ(A)ANTHRACENE
Charles Huggins M.D.1,
Lorraine Grand 1, and
Hisao Oka M.D.1
1 From The Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
A series of pulse-doses of 7, 8, 12-trimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced leukemia rapidly and consistently in very high yield in rats of Long-Evans (L-E) strain. The predominant type was a diffuse hepatic leukemia of erythroblastic stem cells.
Progressive hypothermia and a decline in pituitary function are newly recognized signs of advanced leukemia in rat.
Submitted on September 12, 1969