Research Article

Mimosine As Well As Serum Starvation Can Be Used for Cell Cycle Synchronization of Sheep Granulosa Cells

Table 2

Percentages of granulosa cells in S phase of the cell cycle after a variety of culture treatments in primary culture (a) and 5th passage (b).
(a)

Normally growing
ConfluencySerum starvationCell cycle inhibitors
24 h48 h72 hMimosineNocodazole

S stage19.8%a10.2%b8.5%b3.1%b2.2%b4.5%b3.2%b

(b)

Normally growing
ConfluencySerum starvationCell cycle inhibitors
24 h48 h72 hMimosineNocodazole

S stage18%a9.6%b5.5%b3.2%b2.3%b3.1%b3.3%b

Within a row; percentages with different superscript alphabets are significant ( ).