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. 1974 Aug;14(8):607–624. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(74)85938-2

Kinetic Cell-Cycle Analysis of a Cultured Mammalian Cell Population

BV Bronk, GJ Dienes, R Schindler, JR Gautschi
PMCID: PMC1334555  PMID: 4212118

Abstract

The parameters of the cell cycle are analyzed in terms of the stochastic theory of cell proliferation for a murine mastocytoma line. The cells were grown in suspension culture under steady-state conditions in a chemostat. Initial estimates of the parameters from synchronous growth indicate that agreement of the data with the model is obtained only if the model is modified to include an initial proliferating fraction of less than 100%, and a cell loss continuing throughout the course of the experiment. The analysis verifies that the modified theory adequately describes the data, and that similar parameters are obtained from both desynchronization and percent labeled mitosis experiments. The average cycle time from 10 desynchronization experiments was 8.24 ± 0.52 h with a cellular standard deviation of 1.28 ± 0.18. The combined parameter obtained by dividing the cellular standard deviation by the cycle time is shown to be a useful measure of biological variability well defined over many different experiments. The rate constant for cell loss is about 0.009 which gives an 8% cell loss per cycle. The cell loss is sufficient to account for the apparent deficit in initially proliferating cells. The initial distribution of the synchronous cells is qualitatively examined and is found to be peaked late in G1 or early in S.

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