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New approaches to insect tissue culture

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Current methods of insect cell culture have produced a limited variety of cell types in an ever expanding list of insect cell lines. In developing midgut epithelial cell lines, we found that traditional methods in insect cell culture failed to provide healthy cells from mature tissues. Examination of mammalian cell culture literature for this particular cell type provided the insight required to successfully develop a cell-specific line (Baines et al., 1994). The potential applications for cell-specific lines from insects are numerous. This paper is a compilation of ideas that will hopefully enable other researchers to develop additional cell-specific lines.

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Baines, D. New approaches to insect tissue culture. Cytotechnology 20, 13–22 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350385

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