EXPERIMENTAL PLASMACYTOMAGENESIS IN MICE

This article discusses some of the mechanistic aspects of plasma cell tumor development. Plasmacytomagenesis, much like other forms of neopl astic development, is a highly complex process that develops in the B cell differentiation Lineage. As more is learned about the molecular g enetics of multiple myeloma and PCTs in mice, a unifying concept will emerge that possibly can explain the phenotypic differences in the two neoplastic cell processes as variants of a common process.