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Syngeneic Immune Serum Specifically Inhibits the Motility of Tumour Cells

Nature New Biology volume 241, pages 284–285 (1973)Cite this article

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TUMOUR cells, both animal and human, are actively motile in tissue culture1,2. Simple techniques have recently become available for the quantitation of this motility3,4, and Friberg et al.3 have shown that the motility of mouse lymphoma cells can be inhibited by a concentration of concanavalin A below that which causes agglutination.

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  1. Department of Tumour Immunology, Chester Beatty Research Institute, Laboratories at Clifton Avenue, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey

    G. A. CURRIE & G. C. SLME

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CURRIE, G., SLME, G. Syngeneic Immune Serum Specifically Inhibits the Motility of Tumour Cells. Nature New Biology 241, 284–285 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio241284a0

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