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#NIH/3T3 cells

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Animal Tissue Culture 3

NIH/3T3 cells are widely used to study:

NIH/3T3 fibroblasts are widely exploited to study cell cycle regulation, contact inhibition, and oncogenic transformation because they retain intact checkpoints and robust growth factor responsiveness. Confluent 3T3 cultures arrest in G0/G1 through Hippo pathway mediated YAP phosphorylation and induction of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors. Serum starvation synchronizes cells, and addition of serum containing PDGF, EGF, insulin triggers coordinated re-entry into cell cycle involving Ras-MAPK cascade, PI3K-Akt activation, and induction of immediate-early transcription factors c-fos, c-jun, c-

Ref: Pardee AB Science 1974 G1 regulation NIH/3T3; Lodish MBoC 8th Ed Contact inhibition and oncogene transformation focus assay.

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NIH/3T3 cells are derived from:

NIH/3T3 line derives from Swiss albino mouse embryo fibroblasts harvested at gestational day 16-18 and disaggregated. Name denotes National Institutes of Health and 3-day transfer protocol inoculating 3 x 10^5 cells per dish developed by George Todaro and Howard Green in 1962. By repeated passage at low density, cells overcoming senescence crisis became spontaneously immortalized while maintaining contact inhibition and anchorage dependence, hallmark of non-transformed fibroblasts. Karyotype shows aneuploidy but relatively stable compared to tumor lines, with near 68 chromosomes. 3T3 cells exh

Ref: Todaro GJ & Green H J Cell Biol 1963 3T3 embryonic fibroblasts; ATCC CRL-1658 NIH/3T3 origin and contact inhibition.

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