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A stathmokinetic method has been used to determine the cell cycle parameters, particularly the potential tumour doubling time, of a murine fat pad sarcoma. Additional information has been obtained by determining the percentage of labelled mitoses (PLM). A technique which simultaneously demonstrates autoradiographically labelled S phase nuclei and histochemically localized acid phosphatase activity has also been used at light microscope level to compare these parameters: acid phosphatase activity was demonstrated in tumour cells and macrophages. Single cell deletion by apoptosis has been investigated as distinct from necrosis. Condensed, dying apoptotic cells, have been found in proliferative areas of tumour that are not under physiological stress. The analysis of apoptosis indicated a previously unsuspected variation in apoptotic activity with tumour weight. Cell death by apoptosis initially rose as the tumour grew, but after the tumour reached a threshold weight it declined dramatically, and finally remained stable. This may reflect an initial attempt at autoregulation of tumour size which ultimately fails. Apoptosis was estimated to account for an average of 7% of the total cell loss rate in this tumour.
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Sarraf, C., Bowen, I. Kinetic studies on a murine sarcoma and an analysis of apoptosis. Br J Cancer 54, 989–998 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1986.271
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