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Book SynopsisThe annual meeting of the European Tissue Culture ., Society was held at the Castle of Zinkovy in Czechoslovakia from May 7-10,1969. Included as part of this meeting was a symposium on Aging in Cell and Tissue Culture. This volume contains the papers presented at that symposium. The use of cell and tissue culture techniques to study the mechanism of aging is not new. For example, it has long been known that age-associated changes which occur in plasma can inhibit cell proliferation in vitro; also that the time lapse prior to cell migration from ex planted tissue fragments increases with increasing age. These are both examples of the expression in vitro of aging in vivo. More recently, attention has been focused on the occurrence of senescence in vitro. These investi gations have included studies of alterations in non dividing cell cultures, and to a somewhat greater extent, of ag
Table of ContentsOpening Remarks.- Cell Strain Senescence In Vitro: Cell Culture Anomaly or an Expression of a Fundamental Inability of Normal Cells to Survive and Proliferate.- A Theoretical and Experimental Approach to the Relationship between Cell Variability and Aging In Vitro.- Changes of the Latent Period of Explanted Tissues During Ontogenesis.- Lipid Metabolism in Human Diploid Cells.- Metabolic Aspects of Aging in Diploid Human Cells.- The Decreased Growth Potential In Vitro of Human Fibroblasts of Adult Origin.- RNA and DNA Metabolism in Aging Cultured Cells.- Cell Death in Tissue Culture.- Author Index.
