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Iron is deleterious to hormone-responsive pituitary cell growth in serum-free defined medium

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  1. Hidetaka Sato

    Present address: Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute for Cancer and Chest Diseases, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryomachi, 980, Sendai, Japan

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    Hidetaka Sato, John E. Eby & David A. Sirbasku

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This research was supported by grants 2988 from the Council for Tobacco Research-USA, Inc., BE-38 from the American Cancer Society and CA 38024 from the National Cancer Institue.

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Sato, H., Eby, J.E. & Sirbasku, D.A. Iron is deleterious to hormone-responsive pituitary cell growth in serum-free defined medium. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 27, 599–602 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631101

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Keywords

  • Thyroid Hormone
  • Transferrin
  • Ehrlich Ascites Tumor Cell
  • Ferric Ammonium Citrate
  • Pituitary Tumor Cell