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The establishment of the “a” strain of inbred mice

Leonell C. Strong
- 01 Jan 1936 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 1, pp 21-24
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This article is published in Journal of Heredity.The article was published on 1936-01-01. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strain (biology).

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Lung tumors in mice: application to carcinogenesis bioassay.

TL;DR: The mouse lung tumor is a reproducible, stable, and rapid biological model for a wide variety of quantitative investigations in carcinogenesis, and provides a three-dimensional lattice of the lung in which a known, identifiable subpopulation of cells can be accelerated into conversion into neoplasms.
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Selection for large and small size in mice

D. S. Falconer
- 01 Jul 1953 - 
TL;DR: The aim of a selection experiment on mammals must still be largely the search for phenomena; simply to ' see what happens', but the resNts must be assessed quantitatively and related as far as possible to era'rent theory.
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Mammary tumor viruses.

TL;DR: Two hundred years ago, Bernard Peyrilhe of Perpignan, France, believing that cancer might be caused by “a specific virus,” injected subcutaneously, into a dog, fluid from a human breast carcinoma, and now viruses as etiological agents in cancer are known to be commonplace.
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Genetics of Immunoglobulins in the Mouse

TL;DR: This chapter discusses one aspect of the genetics of immunoglobulins in mice, the polymorphism of genes controlling the structure of the γA,γF, γG, and γH heavy chains, which comprises the heavy-chain linkage group.