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Science 15 September 1967:
Vol. 157. no. 3794, pp. 1330 - 1332
DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3794.1330
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Vertebrate Regeneration System: Culture in vitro

S. B. Simpson Jr. 1 and Prentiss G. Cox 1

1 Departments of Anatomy and Biology, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

With standard tissue-culture techniques and media, various components of the lizard tail regenerate have been maintained in culture for 8 months. Differentiation of two cell types, melanophores and striated muscle, has been obtained. Myoblast proliferation and fusion can be selectively controlled by altering the culture medium.

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