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：1981
卷号：78
期号：7
页码：4373-4377
DOI：10.1073/pnas.78.7.4373
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The effect of bovine glia maturation factor on the growth pattern of cancer cells was investigated in the rat glioma cell line 354A. When the cells were grown in the serum-free defined medium N2 in the absence of the factor, the cells proliferated with a doubling time of 24 hr without showing contact inhibition. After reaching confluency, the cell layer formed numerous foci from which heaps of cell colonies arose. The addition of glia maturation factor to the culture stimulated cell division in the logarithmic phase but prevented overgrowth once the cells arrived at confluency. The ability of glia maturation factor to restore contact inhibition suggests a regulatory role in normal and neoplastic cells.
