Two to four sections were cut from the individual cores and transferred to one slide, depending on the technologist's visual impression.
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Each yields anywhere from 2 to over 100 slides, depending on the size of the sample and the complexity of the case, but on average, Gates says, each case generates about 4 slides apiece some 72,000 slides in all.
A field of this size (approximately 1 mm × 1 mm) allows the study of up to 100 cells on a conventional microscope cover slide, depending on the dilution factor of the culture.
Cells were seeded on 100-mm plastic dishes, 6-well plates, coverslips or chamber slides depending on specific experiment and grown in F12 medium supplemented with 10% FBS, 5 μg/ml insulin, 1 μg/ml hydrocortisone, 5 ng/ml EGF, 100 U/ml penicillin and streptomycin at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO2.
The pathologist evaluated all of the tumour cells on each slide, so the number of cells evaluated per slide depended on the size of the tumour and varied widely.
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