Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — Mice in Cancer Research [ARTICLE]

Mice in Cancer Research

Foreign Animal* Resist Attacks of Disease Until They Are Aoclimated—36o From Japan. London. —Three hundred and sixty waltzing mice hare Just arrived on the Japanese steamer Tango Mara. en route for the National Cancer Research fund. The mice were sent to Prof. E. F. Bashford, the director of feetahd. by Professor Higucbi of Toigo, who recently completed a course of research work tn the fund's laboratories on the Embankment rTbe mice will be used tn research work to determine the effects that acclimatization and dieting have tn increasing or decreasing the susceptibility of mouse tissues to mouse can- , “We have already proved.” it was explained at the fund's laboratories the other day, “that if wo implant Oring cancer tissues from "English mice on to the newly imported for algn mice there, is a certain amount of resistance to the growth. Only a dUhal! percentage of the inoculated mice will develop tumors After a Use. however, this degree of protec Mon wears off and Anally the foreign Mice become as readily susceptible to Implanted tumors as our home mice *H»s mice sent to as from Japan

are an example of the international free trade existing among research workers on cancer. At times of mouse famine tn other countries we have sent English mice to our fellow workers In those countries. Because of this international exchange in European mice it is not easy at the present time to get from Germany or other near countries mice which one can be certain are pure-bred foreign stock. These Japanese mice will be of great value to us. because we know that we have in them an entirely new Held for research. Our object, broadly, will be to see whether these mice will become more susceptible to English cancer as they become acclimatised to English conditions and accustomed to English food.”