SERIAL CULTIVATION OF HUMAN DIPLOID CELL STRAINS
SERIAL CULTIVATION OF HUMAN DIPLOID CELL STRAINS
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(61)90192-6
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发表时间:
1961-01-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
MOORHEAD, PS
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作者:
HAYFLICK, L;MOORHEAD, PS
The isolation and characterization of 25 strains of human diploid fibroblasts derived from fetuses are described. Routine tissue culture technics were employed. Other than maintenance of the diploid karyotype, 10 other criteria serve to distinguish these strains from heteroploid cell lines. These include retention of sex chromatin, histotypical differentiation, non-adaptibility to suspended culture, non-malignant characteristics in vivo, finite limit of cultivation, similar virus spectrum to primary tissue, increased acid production compared to cell lines, retention of Coxsackie A9 receptor substance, and ease with which strains can be developed. Survival of cell strains at[long dash]70C with retention of all characteristics insures an almost unlimited supply of any strain regardless of the fact that they degenerate after about 50 subcultivations and 1 year in culture. A consideration of the cause of the eventual degeneration of these strains eliminates such factors as media components, latent viruses and PPLO, and depletion of some non-replicating intracellular component. The conclusion reached is that the phenomenon is attributable to intrinsic cellular factors which are expressed as senescence at the cellular level. With these characteristics and their extremely broad virus spectrum, the use of diploid human cell strains for human virus vaccine production is suggested. In view of these observations a number of terms used by cell culturists are redefined.