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Spontaneous neoplastic transformation of WB-F344 rat liver epithelial cells.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Dec 1998
Hooth M J, Coleman W B, Presnell S C, Borchert K M, Grisham J W, Smith G J
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Several studies have shown that cultured rat liver epithelial cells transform spontaneously after chronic maintenance in a confluent state in vitro. In the present study, multiple independent lineages of low-passage WB-F344 rat liver epithelial stem-like cells were initiated and subjected in parallel to selection for spontaneous transformation to determine whether spontaneous acquisition of tumorigenicity was the...
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