GROWTH CONTROL OF DIFFERENTIATED FETAL RAT HEPATOCYTES IN PRIMARY MONOLAYER CULTURE
| Autor: | Hyam L. Leffert, K. S. Koch |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Cell Biology. 62:780-791 |
| ISSN: | 1540-8140 0021-9525 |
| DOI: | 10.1083/jcb.62.3.780 |
| Popis: | Serum-deficient ≤0.00003% vol/vol) conditioned medium (CM) obtained from primary cultures of fetal rat hepatocytes initiates DNA synthesis and mitosis in homologous quiescent cultures. CM similarly prepared from 3T3 fibroblast cultures is inactive. At least two conditioning factors are involved in initiating DNA synthesis. The first of these, arginine, is obligatory, synthesized by the cells, and released into the culture medium. The second, a lipid or lipid-containing material, is stable to pH extremes (pH 2, pH 10) and chromatographs with an apparent R1 ∼0.5 on silica gel thin-layer plates using hexane-ether (4: 1) as the solvent system. It is suggested that these cultured hepatocytes enter or leave the G0 or early G1 phase of the cell cycle as determined in part by their capacity to use available conditioning factor and nutrient components of the medium, in particular, arginine. Serum factors including serum fraction I (4), insulin, and possibly, lipid-like conditioning material appear to initiate DNA synthesis by controlling cellular processes involved with the enhanced utilization and synthesis of growth-limiting nutrients. |
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