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Isolation, Culture and Characterization of Insect Cell Line for In-Vitro Screening of Insecticides Isolation, Culture and Characterization of Insect Cell line References for In-vitro Screening of Insecticides Bibliography Abass, A. B., Ndunguru, G., Mamiro, P., Alenkhe, B., Mlingi, N. and Bekunda, M. (2014). Post-harvest food losses in a maize-based farming system of semi-arid savannah area of Tanzania. J. Stored Prod. Res., 57: 49-57. Abitorabi, A.M. and Wilcox, C. (2011). Metabolic enhancers: A new paradigm in cell culture media optimization. BMC Proc., 5 (Suppl. 8): 19. Adamski, Z., Fila K. and Ziemnicki, K. (2005). Fenitrothion induced cell malformations in-vitro in Spodoptera exigua cell line UCR-Se-1. Biological lett., 42(1): 41-47. Agathos, S. N. (2007). Development of serum-free media for lepidopteran insect cell lines. In: Murhammer, D. W, editor. Baculovirus Expression Protocols. Totowa, N. J. Humana Press: 155–85. Agathos, S. N. (2010).Insect cell culture. In: Baltz, R. 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