Spontaneous mammary tumors

Disease

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Effects

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Splenic natural killer (NK) cell activity

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  1. Spontaneous mammary tumors decrease splenic natural killer (NK) cell activity in mice.

    “dropped after the appearance of spontaneous mammary tumors to very low levels”

    Animalsgrowth of spontaneous mammary tumorsspleen

    Changes in the host natural killer cell population in mice during tumor development. 1. Kinetics and in vivo significance

    Cellular immunology1 Jul 1985

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Arsenic

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  1. Arsenic lowers the risk of spontaneous mammary tumors in mice.

    “Arsenic, a selenium antagonist, administered in form of arsenite in the supply water, also lowers the tumor incidence at dosage levels of 10 ppm”

    Reviewarsenite10 ppm

    Selenium and cancer: a review

    Bioinorganic chemistry1 Jan 1976

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