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Colchicine inhibits mitogenesis in C1300 neuroblastoma cells that have been arrested in G0

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CELLS in G1 or G0 usually progress through the cell cycle and stop in metaphase when colchicine is added to the growth medium1–6. I have observed, however, using two different experimental techniques, that mouse C1300 neuroblastoma cells reversibly arrested in G0 by serum limitation7 are unable to re-enter the cell cycle in the presence of colchicine.

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  1. MICHAEL E. BAKER: Address for correspondence: Department of Medicine, M–013, University of California, San Diego.

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BAKER, M. Colchicine inhibits mitogenesis in C1300 neuroblastoma cells that have been arrested in G0. Nature 262, 785–786 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262785a0

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