Liver metastatic tumor colonies

Table 7. Effects of oleic acid on tbe spleen weight and number of metastatic tumor colonies in the livers of mice with intrasplenically implanted LLC1...

Treatment No of animals Spleen weight (mg) Metastatic tumor colonies in the liver... 

LLC-bearing mice had tumor metastasis to the liver, with about 50 tumors colonies per mouse Fig. (6) . Tuna triacylglycerols (1000 or 2000 mg/kg) significantly reduced the number of tumor cell colonies that metastasized to the liver compared with the number in intrasplenic untreated LLC-bearing mice. The growth of metastatic tumors in the livers of LLC-bearing mice was also inhibited by orally administered tuna triacylglycerols (1000 or 2000 mg/kg) Fig. (6) . 

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