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Establishment of an Osteoid Preosteocyte-like Cell MLO-A5 That Spontaneously Mineralizes in Culture
1 Sept 2001
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms controlling the initiation of mineralization of bone matrix are not clear. To examine this process, we established a cell line called MLO-A5 that mineralizes in sheets, not nodules, within 3 days of culture in the presence of beta-glycerophosphate (beta-GP) and ascorbic acid and within 7 days in the absence of beta-GP and ascorbic acid. The mineral formed in both cases was shown to be bonelike...
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