Medical Definition of Density dependent inhibition of growth
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| The phenomenon exhibited by most normal (anchorage dependent) animal cells in culture that stop dividing once a critical cell density is reached.
The critical density is considerably higher for most cells than the density at which a monolayer is formed, for this reason, most cell behaviourists prefer the term density dependent inhibition of growth as this avoids any confusion with contact inhibition of locomotion, a totally different phenomenon that is contact dependent.
(12 Jan 1998)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Density Dependent Inhibition Of Growth
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