The productivity of recombinant mammalian cell lines grown in batch culture is often limited by the rapidity with which cells die on entry into the decline phase (the period of culture afterthe maximum cell density has been reached and where cell viability begins to fall). We examined the decline ph
bcl-2, a novel reguator of cell death
โ Scribed by David M. Hockenbery
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 997 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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