期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1978
卷号：75
期号：7
页码：3292-3296
DOI：10.1073/pnas.75.7.3292
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Metabolic cooperation has been used as an index of intercellular communication between mouse embryonal carcinoma (EC) and other cell types. EC cells do not cooperate with differentiated cells of various properties or origins. In contrast they cooperate with cells of all other EC lines tested, including a human teratocarcinoma line, but with different efficiencies. This might reflect differences either in cell-cell interactions or in the formation of gap junctions. During in vitro differentiation, EC cells appear to remain isolated from differentiated cell types.
