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. 1923 May 31;37(6):759-65.
doi: 10.1084/jem.37.6.759.

ACTION OF SERUM ON FIBROBLASTS IN VITRO

A Carrel  1 , A H Ebeling
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ACTION OF SERUM ON FIBROBLASTS IN VITRO

A Carrel et al. J Exp Med. .

Abstract

IT MAY BE CONCLUDED THAT, UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE EXPERIMENTS: 1. The duration of life of fibroblasts is not altered by the presence of 7 per cent serum in a medium composed of fibrin and Tyrode solution, but is slightly decreased when the concentration of the serum reaches 25 per cent. 2. Fibroblasts cultivated in serum or in Tyrode solution are only in a condition of survival; they do not build up new protoplasm from the serum proteins and their mass does not increase. 3. When embryonic tissue juice is added to the medium, the tissues increase in mass. But the rate of growth is the same in media containing 0 per cent and 10 per cent serum. In 25 per cent serum, however, the rate of growth slightly decreases. Even in the presence of embryonic tissue juice, serum does not increase the rate of growth of connective tissue. 4. The nitrogenous compounds contained in serum are not used as food material by fibroblasts growing in vitro.

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