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Defined medium for primary culture de novo of adult rat alveolar epithelial cells.
In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal - 1 Feb 1994
Borok Z, Danto S I, Zabski S M, Crandall E D
Abstract excerpt
Isolated type II pneumocytes grown in serum on tissue culture-treated polycarbonate filters form monolayers with characteristic bioelectric properties, and change morphologically with time in culture to resemble type I cells. Concurrently, the cells express type I cell surface epitopes, making this a potentially useful in vitro model with which to study regulation of alveolar epithelial cell function and...
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