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Mitotic activity in confluent cultures of human diploid fibroblasts was arrested by the reduction of the serum concentration of the incubation medium to 0.5% or by the addition of 0.5mm 6-N, 2′-O-dibutyryl-adenosine 3′:5′-cyclic monophosphate (db cAMP). Under either of these conditions, cultures maintained a constant cell number for 14 days; cultures continuously exposed to medium containing 10% serum doubled their cell number during this 14-day period. The protein content per cell decreased by 20% when cells were maintained with 0.5% serum whereas that of cells exposed to db cAMP remained constant. Ultrastructural studies revealed that cells exposed to db cAMP exhibited a morphology typical of cells cultured with 10% serum alone, whereas cells incubated with 0.5% serum showed the ultrastructural changes in mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex previously identified with low-serum arrest. Cellular adenosine 3′:5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels remained constant during the 7-day growth period in which confluency was attained, as well as during the 14-day arrested period with 0.5% serum. These results indicated that the mitotic inhibition induced by reducing the serum concentration of the incubation medium was not mediated by increased intracellular levels of cAMP and differed from that induced by the addition of exogenous db cAMP.
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Dell'Orco, R.T., Martin, T.J. & Douglas, W.H.J. Cyclic amp and serum arrest of the mitotic activity of human diploid fibroblasts. In Vitro 13, 55–62 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02615505
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