anchorage-dependent growth
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anchorage-dependent growth
the form of growth shown by mammalian cells cultured from tissue explants that requires them to be attached to solid substrata in order to grow and divide. Cells vary in their requirements for attachment, with some thriving on plastic surfaces whereas others need components of the extracellular matrix such as collagens. Transformed cells such as those derived from tumours do not always exhibit anchorage-dependent growth and can be grown by suspending them in culture media.
| ancestral sequence, anaplerotic metabolic pathway, anaplerosis | |
| ancrod, androgen, androgen receptor |
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