EVIDENCE FOR A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONGEVITY OF MAMMALIAN-SPECIES AND LIFE SPANS OF NORMAL FIBROBLASTS INVITRO AND ERYTHROCYTES INVIVO
EVIDENCE FOR A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONGEVITY OF MAMMALIAN-SPECIES AND LIFE SPANS OF NORMAL FIBROBLASTS INVITRO AND ERYTHROCYTES INVIVO
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10.1073/pnas.78.8.5009
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1981-01-01
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ROHME, D
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ROHME, D
The replicative life spans of mammalian fibroblasts in vitro were studied in cell cultures representing 8 species. These included biopsy lung, skin, testis or whole embryos from mouse, rat, rat kangaroo, mink, rabbit, bat, horse and humans. Emphasis was placed on determining the population doubling level at which phase III (a period of decrease in the rate of proliferation) and chromosomal alterations occur. All the cell cultures studied went through a growth crisis, a period of apparent growth cessation lasting for at least 2 wk. In most cultures the crisis represented the end of their replicative capacities, but in some cultures cell proliferation was resumed after the crisis. A predominantly diploid chromosome constitution (> 75%) was demonstrated prior to the growth crisis. In cultures in which cell proliferation was resumed after the crisis, a nondiploid constitution prevailed in all cases except the rat (with 90% or more diploid cells all the time). The growth crisis occurred at population doubling levels that were characteristic for the species and was related to the species'' maximal life span by a strict power law, being proportional to the square root of the maximal life span. Based on literature data, the same relationship was valid for the lifespans of circulating mammalian erythrocytes in vivo. Apparently, there is a common functional basis regulating the life span of fibroblasts and erythrocytes and thus operating in replicative as well as postmitotic cells in vitro and in vivo.