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[The accelerating action of polystyrene latex on myoblast proliferation in culture]
Ontogenez
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Latex beads (1800 A) added to chick embryonic muscle cell culture at the moment of plating accelerate and enhance the mitotic activity of myoblasts as soon as by the end of the first day of cultivation. The mitotic index of the induced cultures was several times greater than that characteristic of usual myoblast cultures. The formation of myotubes and the appearance of satellite-like cells was observed during the same period.
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