What are the effects of the presence of insulin in the culture medium of MCF-7?

03 March 2014 0 7K Report

As per ATCC guidelines, there should be a 0.01 mg/ml of insulin in the medium. Please explain if there are any noticeable changes (phenotypic and genotypic) in the cell line?

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