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S H Swierenga, J F Whitfield, H P Morris.
Abstract
Cells from neonatal rat livers were unable to maintain DNA-synthetic activity in calcium-deficient medium, but neoplastic hepatocytes from Morris hepatomas 5123 tc and 7795 synthesized DNA and proliferated indefinitely in this calcium-deficient medium. The calcium content of fresh hepatoma tissue from which these cultures were derived was as much as 10 times greater than that of normal liver; but this difference could not account for the insensitivity of neoplastic cells to extracellular calcium because it disappeared during subsequent cultivation in vitro.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID: 210108 DOI: 10.1007/bf02616095
Source DB: PubMed Journal: In Vitro ISSN: 0073-5655