Approximately how many doublings can normal human fibroblasts undergo in culture?

a. 50 to 100
b. They will go on proliferating indefinitely.
c. They will not double at all but dispersing them in culture allows them to be studied in isolation from other cell types.
d. five


Ans: a. 50 to 100

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