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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
Individual human diploid cells from the same culture differ greatly in the number of doublings they can achieve and consequently the size of colony they can initiate. Computer simulations suggested that the life-span of a culture could be determined from the distribution of colony sizes. Colony size distributions of cultures of a human diploid fibroblast, WI-38, were determined experimentally and found to be a sensitive measure of in vitro age. In particular, there is a highly significant linear correlation between the percentage of colonies of sixteen or more cells and the number of population doublings remaining in the in vitro life-span. Thus, the colony size distribution can be used to predict the number of population doublings remaining in the vitro life-span of a human diploid fibroblast cell culture without knowledge of its prior history.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0047-6374
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
283-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Colony size distribution as a measure of age in cultured human cells. A brief note.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article