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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-8-2
pubmed:abstractText
A short term in vitro test for granulocyte chalone activity eas examined for its specificity and reliability. The test used the inhibition, by granulocyte extracts, of 3H-thymidine (3H-Tdr) uptake in to the acid-insoluble material by rat bone marrow cells in vitro to measure possible chalone activity. Among the many possible 3H-Tdr artifacts pool size dilution by Tdr contained in the extracts was excluded using an E. coli mutant requiring thymine. Several amino acids and biogenic amines do not affect the test. However, continuous and pulse labelling of bone marrow cells with 3H-Tdr, viability tests and micro flow fluorometric measurements of the cell cycle distribution following colcemid treatment strongly suggests that the cells do not proliferate in vitro during short term incubation, since practically no cells enter the S-phase, cells in the S-phase die and few if any cells proceed through G2 and mitosis. Moreover, the test cannot exclude cytotoxicity. Thus, the in vitro test may only sceem for an unspecific S-phase inhibitor and must hence be supplemented by another assay to prove the chalone nature of an extract or fraction. The test per se fails to meet most of the requirements of a valid granulocyte chalone assay.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0340-6075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
229-38
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of a short term in vitro test for granulocyte chalone activity.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article