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Variability of Content of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in L-strain Fibroblasts

Nature volume 183, pages 1818–1819 (1959)Cite this article

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IT is well known and has been amply demonstrated that the deoxyribonucleie acid content of normal ‘resting’ mammalian cells in the host is constant from cell to cell and tissue to tissue. The germinal tissue is the single exception, having instead exactly half the quantity of acid. This has been felt to reflect the constant chromosome number of these cells.

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    ROLLA B. HILL JUN., KLAUS G. BENSCH, STANLEY SIMBONIS & DONALD W. KING

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HILL, R., BENSCH, K., SIMBONIS, S. et al. Variability of Content of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in L-strain Fibroblasts. Nature 183, 1818–1819 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831818a0

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