ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN-MUSCLE CELLS
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN-MUSCLE CELLS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.78.9.5623
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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WEBSTER, C
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作者:
BLAU, HM;WEBSTER, C
An in vitro system for the study of postnatal human muscle under standardized conditions is described. The technique utilizes cloning to isolate pure populations of muscle cells. By manipulating culture conditions either proliferation or differentiation of individual clones or of clones pooled can be maximized to yield mass cultures of muscle cells. The muscle phenotype is stable; cells can be stored in liquid N for long-term use without loss of proliferative or differentiative potential. Proliferative capacity of muscle cells was determined from an analysis of clonal growth kinetics; differentiative capacity was determined from morphological evidence (cell fusion, striations, contractions and the appearance of acetylcholine receptors) and biochemical analysis of muscle protein synthesis (creatine kinase, .alpha.-actin tropomyosin and myosin L chains). This approach eliminates the variability in cellular composition that has complicated studies of primary muscle to date. In a controlled fashion the interactions and contributions of different cell types to the development of normal and genetically dystrophic human muscle can be studied.