difference between cell and tissue culture
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Tissue culture usually refers to both organ culture and cell culture. You can use "cell culture" and "tissue culture" interchangeably.
As for transformation, there are two main types of cells that you can culture: primary cells, which are explanted directly from a donor organism and will eventually senesce and die, and inmortalized cell lines, which are also known as transformed cells and continue to grow and divide indefinitely in vitro for as long as the correct culture conditions are maintained. However, not all these immortalized/transformed cells will form tumors when introduced into an animal, which is the condition for a cell to be considered tumoral or cancer cell. So, transformed cell is NOT synominous of cancer/tumoral cell (Some of the immortalized cells are able to form tumors and thus are also cancer cells, but other immortalized cells are not). Transformation can occur by infection by transforming tumour viruses, by chromosomal changes...
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As for transformation, there are two main types of cells that you can culture: primary cells, which are explanted directly from a donor organism and will eventually senesce and die, and inmortalized cell lines, which are also known as transformed cells and continue to grow and divide indefinitely in vitro for as long as the correct culture conditions are maintained. However, not all these immortalized/transformed cells will form tumors when introduced into an animal, which is the condition for a cell to be considered tumoral or cancer cell. So, transformed cell is NOT synominous of cancer/tumoral cell (Some of the immortalized cells are able to form tumors and thus are also cancer cells, but other immortalized cells are not). Transformation can occur by infection by transforming tumour viruses, by chromosomal changes...
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