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Process Optimization using High Throughput Automated Micro-Bioreactors in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell Cultivation
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Bioreactor cultivation of CHO DP-12 cells under sodium butyrate treatment - comparative transcriptome analysis with
Sandra Klausing1, Oliver Krämer1, Thomas Noll1
1Institute of Cell Culture Technology, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
BMC Proceedings
|March 1, 2012
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