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The interaction between tumour and bone with respect to the proliferative activity of transplanted tumour cells was studied using five transplantable human urogenital tumours in nude mice. Cells from those tumours were injected subcutaneously over the calvaria of nude mice following disruption of the periosteum. The extent of tumour-bone interaction varied with the type of implanted tumour as shown on X-ray and by histologic examinations of the calvaria. The classic histologic pattern of bone remodelling including the destruction of bone with proliferation of osteoclasts and reactive new bone formation was seen with all five tumours. Tumour proliferative activity determined from the tumour doubling time and the S-phase fraction using bromodeoxyuridine labelling showed that the rate of reactive bone formation appeared to be inversely proportional to the rate of tumour cell proliferation.
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Nemoto, R. New bone formation and cancer implants; relationship to tumour proliferative activity. Br J Cancer 63, 348–350 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1991.83
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