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Growth factors in invertebrate in vitro culture

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An increasing number of polypeptide growth factors have been identified that have proven essential in the development of defined cell culture media for mammalian cell culture. The development of defined mammalian cell culture media, in turn, has provided an environment for studying cell lines in an experimentally manageable unit for studying the action of cellular regulators and genes that determine the properties of cells. Evidence that vertebrate growth factors may be present in insects is based on DNA sequences that encode epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-β. However, research on the influence of commercially available vertebrate growth factors is very limited. Although the majority of insect growth-promoting substances studied were isolated directly from insect hemolymph, few of these have been purified to the extent that they could be tested in insect cell, tissue, and endoparasite cultures. Research is needed in both of these areas to aid in developing defined insect culture systems, and to understand better the regulation of postembryonic growth and development in insects.

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Ferkovich, S.M., Oberlander, H. Growth factors in invertebrate in vitro culture. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 27, 483–486 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631149

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