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Establishment of immortal hepatocytes from a CYP3A7-transgenic/p53-knockout mouse
1Division of Drug Metabolism, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|December 26, 1995
Abstract:
Immortal hepatocytes were established from a CYP3A7-transgenic/p53-knockout mouse. The cells could be maintained with shorter doubling time after culture for 1 month. Detectable amounts of CYP3A7 mRNA and the activity of 7-propoxycoumarin O-depropylase, one of the representative CYP3A activities, were present in the immortal hepatocytes. Albumin mRNA, which is specifically expressed in the liver, remained in these cells.