Glomerular immune complex deposits associated with mouse mammary tumor.

Adult Paris R-III mice with localized mamary tumors were found to have subendothelial glomerular immune complex deposits by electron microscopy and immunofluorescence. In addition to IgG adn B-1-C, the glomeruli contained antigenic material that reacted with an antiserum to mouse mamary tumor virus. These findings support the hypothesis that many animals with congenitally or neonatally induced virus-related tumors are not immunologically tolerant to the oncogenic virus.