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Cells attach to the culture substratum with varying degrees of adherence. Some types of cells do not adhere at all and grow as cell suspensions in the medium. Such cells are referred to as nonadhering cells (nonanchorage-dependent cells). Cells that have to attach to the substratum to proliferate are referred to as adhering cells (anchorage-dependent cells).
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Richardson, A., Fedoroff, S. (1997). Procedures for Subculturing Cells. In: Fedoroff, S., Richardson, A. (eds) Protocols for Neural Cell Culture. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2586-5_17
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