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This study reports for the first time the establishment of immortalized cell lines from normal adult rat parotid glands. The freshly prepared cellular clumps obtained from parotid glands of isoproterenol-treated rats were incubated in 0.2% trypsin solution without EDTA. These clumps were transfected with plasmid vectors pSV neo3 and pSV neo5 by electroporation and calcium phosphate-Co-DNA-precipitation techniques. The untransfected and transfected cellular clumps were plated in precoated dishes containing modified MCDB-153 medium. Epithelial cells grew from the clumps that were attached. All epithelial cells from untransfected culture died within 6 to 8 wk. Two cell lines which were isolated from transfected cultures subsequently grew on regular tissue culture dishes. One of them, which was isolated from pSV neo5 transfected cultures, exhibited non-epithelial cell morphology, but at confluency, many cells mature to acinar-like cells containing numerous granules. The other cell line (2RS), which was isolated from pSV neo3 transfected culture, contained cells of non-epithelial and epithelial morphology. During the initial phase of the growth, MCDB-153 medium was essential; however, at a later time, RPMI medium was better than MCDB-153 or F12 medium for maintaining morphology and growth of these cells. The immortalized cells grew in RPMI with a doubling time of about 25 h, synthesize T-antigen,α-amylase mRNAs of 1176 and 702 bp, andα-amylase and were non-tumorigenic. These amylase-producing cells can be a useful model to study the mechanisms of regulation of growth and differentiation in these cells.
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Prasad, K.N., Carvalho, E., Edwards-Prasad, J. et al. Establishment and characterization of immortalized cell lines from rat parotid glands. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 30, 321–328 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631453
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