Removal and Regeneration of the Cell Coating in Tumour Cells (original) (raw)

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SOME ascitic tumour cells are coated with a mucopolysaccharide stainable by the Hale reaction1. Experiments were carried out to characterize more specifically the chemical nature of this cell coating and to study the dynamics of cell coat formation. Cells of ascitic mammary carcinoma _TA_3 were used in vitro. Experiments were carried out to determine whether some proteases and mucinases remove the cell coating, and, after removal, regeneration of the cell coating occurs.

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  1. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4
    G. GASIC & T. GASIC
  2. Department of Oncology, University of Chile,
    G. GASIC & T. GASIC

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GASIC, G., GASIC, T. Removal and Regeneration of the Cell Coating in Tumour Cells.Nature 196, 170 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196170a0

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