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Cellular Interactions in Mass Cultures of Human Diploid Fibroblasts

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Fibroblasts in mass cultures generate self-maintaining parallel arrays. In the presence of accumulated collagen, arrays migrate over one another to build meta-stable orthogonal multilayers. The cell partaking in these interactions is the fibroblast in the bipolar spindle form, which does not exhibit contact inhibition of movement.

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ELSDALE, T., BARD, J. Cellular Interactions in Mass Cultures of Human Diploid Fibroblasts. Nature 236, 152–155 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/236152a0

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