1981
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761981000300003
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Malignant transformation of a rat fibroma by the treatment with an anti-fibrosing drug: CY-168F (Plastenan)

Abstract: Fifteen albino (Sprague Dawley) rats with subcutaneous transplanted fibromas was used in the present study. The tumour was formed by typical fibroblasts in a dense collagen matrix and was provenient from a fibroma that appeared spontaneously in an albino rat of the same strain. Ultrastructurally collagen disclosed normal periodicity and the fibroblasts showed irregular notched nuclei with irregular distribution of chromatin, that suggests transitional aspects to fibrosarcoma. The 15 animals, from different pas… Show more

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