Direct observation of mammalian cell growth and size regulation

We introduce a microfluidic system for simultaneously measuring single-cell mass and cell cycle progression over multiple generations. We use this system to obtain over 1,000 h of growth data from mouse lymphoblast and pro–B-cell lymphoid cell lines. Cell lineage analysis revealed a decrease in the growth rate variability at the G1-S phase transition, which suggests the presence of a growth rate threshold for maintaining size homeostasis.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nature Methods

• Publication date

  2012-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/nmeth.2133PMID 22863882PMCID 3433595
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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