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THE finding of considerable numbers of mitotic figures in the hæmopoietic organs of normal healthy animals and in the neoplastic tissues of tumour-bearing animals after colchicine administration has led many students to suspect an inter-relationship between mitosis and the alkaloid. But the effect of colchicine in slowing down the rate of growth of neoplastic tissue has not been reported.
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AMOROSO, E. Colchicine and Tumour Growth. Nature 135, 266–267 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135266b0
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