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What do a naked mole rat cell and a claustrophobic have in common? Neither of them benefit from being in crowds. Naked mole rats are distinctive because their cells have two tiers of contact inhibition. The mechanisms behind this attribute in naked mole rats was researched in this article. After observing skin and lung cell cultures it was discovered that they never created a complete monolayer, this tendency in cells was labeled early contact inhibition. Although by disturbing the early contact inhibition they were capable to get a culture, of naked mole rat skin cells, to construct a monolayer that resembled that of a mouse cell culture. Thus, it was determined that naked mole rat cells have two levels of contact inhibition. In addition to

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