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  • Title: Development of tetraploidy in V79 spheroids.
    Author: Olive PL, Leonard JC, Durand RE.
    Journal: In Vitro; 1982 Aug; 18(8):708-14. PubMed ID: 7129485.
    Abstract:
    Chinese hamster V-79-171 cells, when placed in suspension culture, spontaneously form multicell spheroids. As the spheroids enlarge the fraction of polyploid (predominantly tetraploid) cells increases and can approach 100% in very large spheroids. Spheroid size, rather than age, seems to be a major determinant for increased ploidy. When cell separation techniques were used to select enriched populations of diploid and tetraploid cells, the growth rate and plating efficiency of the diploid cells was always marginally higher, and they gradually became predominant in mixed monolayer cultures. Cloned tetraploid cells, however, generally remained quite stable, and no consistent ploidy dependent changes in radiosensitivity were observed relative to normal, diploid cell lines.
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