Vitamin A Inhibition of Keratinization in Rat Urinary Bladder Cancer Cell Line Nara Bladder Tumor No. 2 in Meniscus Gradient Culture1
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monolayer cultures were first prepared with the tubes in conventional horizontal position. When cultures were then changed to a vertical position, stratification, piling up, and aggregation of cells were observed in a few days at the aerobic end of the gradient. Keratinization appeared 1 week after the tubes were placed in vertical position. Squamous differentiation proceeded to the formation of keratin pearls, a phenomenon never observed so distinctly and in such abundance in horizontal culture. Supplements of vitamin A, as low as 1 ILJ/ml, added to the medium did not inhibit piling up or aggregation but did prevent keratinization. Inhibition of keratinization by vitamin A was reversible. After vitamin A was removed from the medium, the cells in the aggregates progressed to keratinization.
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Vitamin A inhibition of keratinization in rat urinary bladder cancer cell line Nara Bladder Tumor No. 2 in meniscus gradient culture.
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