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For the mouse hybridoma cell line VO 208, kinetics of growth, consumption of glucose and glutamine, and production of lactate, ammonia and antibodies were compared in batch and continuous cultures. At a given specific growth rate, different metabolic activities were observed: a 40% lower glucose and glutamine consumption rate, but a 70% higher antibody production rate in continuous than in batch culture. Much higher metabolic rates were also measured during the initial lag phase of the batch culture. When representing the variation of the specific antibody production rate as a function of the specific growth rate, there was a positive association between growth and antibody production in the batch culture, but a negative association during the transient phase of the continuous culture. The kinetic differences between cellular metabolism in batch and continuous cultures may be result of modifications in the physiology and metabolism of cells which, in continuous cultures, were extensively exposed to glucose limitations.
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Goergen, J.L., Marc, A. & Engasser, J.M. Comparison of specific rates of hybridoma growth and metabolism in batch and continuous cultures. Cytotechnology 10, 147–155 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00570891
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