C3H and Swiss male mice were given a single subcutaneous injection of 1 mg methylcholanthrene and were subsequently centrifuged (5 weekly treatments for 5 weeks: at each treatment mice were centrifuged at 3.8 g for 1 h). Tumor incidence was 100 % in both stressed and non-stressed mice: no differences in survival time were observed.
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