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The short-term increase in extracellular potassium concentration causes DNA replication onset in density-inhibited
Y V Fedorov1, Y E Yegorov, A V Zelenin
1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Experimental Cell Research
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
The high potassium concentration effect on the human diploid fibroblasts (HDF) and 3T3 cells was investigated. The incubation of confluent cultures of HDF or 3T3 Swiss cells in the medium with 50 mM K+ for 35 min induced, 12 h later, the onset of DNA replication in a significant proportion of culture cell population. The same treatment had no effect upon the sparce cell cultures. No stimulation of DNA replication was observed in the absence of serum in culture medium.