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Serum-starved cells were stimulated with increasing concentrations if IGF-I and then pulsed with 3H-thymidine.
Various lysates from cells that were serum-starved and pre-treated with gefitinib or erlotinib were analyzed by immunoblotting.
Serum-starved cells were incubated with fresh serum-free media for 1 hour at 37°C (in order to return the phosphorylation levels of p44/42 MAPK to the basal state) and then treated with insulin (2.
Although it has been shown that CPT at higher concentrations induces cell cycle arrest in proliferating dermal fibroblasts [ 26], it is unlikely that the inhibition of collagen production was related to cell cycle arrest, because our experiments were performed with confluent, serum-starved cells.