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Indian J Cancer
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1991 Jun; 28(2): 84-91
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-49726
ABSTRACT
Newborn Syrian hamster dermal fibroblasts in primary culture have high plating efficiency, manifest as homogeneous contact-sensitive monolayer in mass cultures and above all possesses a short life-span of 15-20 days in culture. These cells are quite sensitive to mutagenic carcinogens. The DMBA treatment induced multi-layer and foci formation and growth in soft-agar suggesting that immortal variants can be obtained by treatment with carcinogens.