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Nucleic Acids of Malignant and Benign Splenic Hyperplasias in Mice

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CERECEDO et al.1–3 and Hilf et al.4, studying the effect of sarcoma 180, melanoma S91 and stressing agents on the nucleic acid content of different organs of the mouse, found that the RNA/DNA ratio usually dropped with the growth of the tumours.

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KRAVETZ DE SRULIJES, L., HOLMBERG, E., PAVLOVSKY, A. et al. Nucleic Acids of Malignant and Benign Splenic Hyperplasias in Mice. Nature 209, 1038–1039 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091038a0

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