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Immortalization and characterization of rat microglial cells.
Neuropathology and applied neurobiology - 1 Aug 1995
McLaurin J, Almazan G, Williams K, Antel J P
Abstract excerpt
Microglial cell lines from rat brain were established by transfer of a temperature sensitive simian virus 40 large tumour antigen by means of a retrovirus. Four weeks after infection, colonies were generated in the presence of neomycin and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and subsequently subcloned. Both bulk cell lines and clones proliferate actively at 33 degrees C, whereas the rate of...
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