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Abstract:
The down regulation of surface membrane receptors for 125I) epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been evaluated in normal and SV40-transformed human fibroblasts (WI38) under conditions of serum-supplemented versus defined growth media. Both normal and transformed WI38 cells down regulate and recover the EGF receptor and these processes do not differ significantly in serum-supplemented versus defined media. These data are in contrast to a recent study that reported that the HeLa cell does not down regulate the EGF receptor in defined media, whereas it does in serum-supplemented media.
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