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Clonal Aspects of the C-type Virus-releasing Cells of a Cultured Human Rhabdomyosarcoma Line (RD 114) in vitro

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WE have recently reported the successful transplantation of human cancer cells in cats1. Foetuses were inoculated through the maternal uterine wall with cultured human rhabdomyosarcoma cells, RD line No. 2, and disseminated rhabdomyosarco-mata were noted in the kittens after birth. (As previously described2, before the first biopsy and the derivation of line No. 1, the patient had been treated with large doses of cyclophosphamide and, before the second biopsy and the initiation of line No. 2, received both cyclophosphamide and X-irradiation.)

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  1. Cell Culture Laboratory, School of Public Health, Naval Biomedical Research Laboratory, University of California, Oakland, California, 94625

    W. A. NELSON-REES

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, PO Box 54700, Terminal Annex, Los Angeles, California, 90054

    R. M. MCALLISTER

  3. Department of Pathology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, 90033

    M. B. GARDNER

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NELSON-REES, W., MCALLISTER, R. & GARDNER, M. Clonal Aspects of the C-type Virus-releasing Cells of a Cultured Human Rhabdomyosarcoma Line (RD 114) in vitro. Nature New Biology 236, 147–149 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio236147a0

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