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Effects upon tumours of Various Haloalkylarylamines

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IN an extension of work upon the growth-inhibitory and carcinogenic effects of 4-aminostilbene1, special attention has been devoted to the influence on these properties of varying the basic side-chain. In one series, the compound 4-NN-di(2-chloroethyl) aminostilbene was of interest as containing the chloroethyl groupings characteristic of the nitrogen mustards. Administration of this substance in relatively high dosage (c. 500 mgm./kgm.) to rats bearing the Walker carcinoma, in an orienting type of experiment already described1, produced an inhibition of tumour-growth considerable in degree but of very brief duration; and pharmacologically the compound appeared, not surprisingly, to be markedly different from the aliphatic chloroethyl -amines on one hand and the aminostilbenes on the other.

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HADDOW, A., KON, G. & ROSS, W. Effects upon tumours of Various Haloalkylarylamines. Nature 162, 824–825 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162824a0

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