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Contact Inhibition

Known as: Contact Inhibitions, Inhibition, Contact, Inhibitions, Contact 
The cellular process in which cells stop growing or dividing in response to increased cell density. [GOC:dph, PMID:17376520]
National Institutes of Health

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Cell Growth Regulation
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1986
1986
Ultrastructural and biological observations on neoplastic growth control obtained by contact inhibition.
Friend erythroleukaemia and HeLa cells grown in suspension were artificially kept in close contact by centrifugation in capillary… 
1985
1985
A contact-insensitive subpopulation in Syrian hamster cell cultures with a greater susceptibility to chemically induced neoplastic transformation.
We previously have identified a subpopulation of contact-insensitive (CS-) cells which lacks density-dependent inhibition of cell… 
1985
1985
Synthesis of a hematoside (GM3-ganglioside) and a stereoisomer
The ganglioside GM3 had been isolated from brain, human spleen and dog erythrocytes, and the structu re was determined to be 1 [2… 
1976
1976
Primary cultures of rat aortic media: a growth stop phenomenon different from contact inhibition.
Cultures have been made from explants of thoracic aortas to study the growth pattern of aortic mediacytes. Explants from aortas… 
1976
1976
Contact inhibition of pleiotropin pinocytosis as a critical factor in metazoan cell ageing.
For the biosynthesis of macromolecules in amounts sufficient for indefinite growth or survival in dividing as well as in… 
1975
1975
[Restoration of growth contact inhibition in malignant melanocytes from man, mice, and hamsters].
Contact inhibition of growth is the in vitro property whose loss is most closely correlated with in vivo tumorigenicity. A… 
1974
1974
Ultrastructural studies of the early junctional zone formed by keratinocytes showing contact inhibition of movement in vitro.
Epithelial cells (keratinocytes) from normal human epidermis show contact inhibition of movement in vitro. Fifteen minutes… 
1973
1973
Studies on contact inhibition of growth in the mouse fibroblast, 3T3. II. Effects of amino acid deprivation and serum on growth rate.
The effect of amino acid concentration on the initial growth rate of the contact-inhibited mouse fibroblasts 3T3 and its SV40… 
1972
1972
Defective formation of the lamellar cytoplasm by neoplastic fibroblasts (L cells-transformed cells-cell attachment-contact inhibition-scanning electron microscopy-microcinematography).
Isolated cultures of mouse L-cells are similar to those of normal cells in showing contact inhibition of movement and… 
1969
1969
Cellular Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis and Loss of Contact Inhibition in Irradiated and Contact-Inhibited Cell Cultures Infected with Fibroma Virus
Cultural changes that follow infection of rabbit kidney cells with fibroma virus were studied. Characteristic alterations of cell…