Analysis of rat adrenal cells in primary culture separated by velocity sedimentation |
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Authors: | Robert B. Goldberg |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, SUNY College at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York, USA;(2) Department of Biology, State University College, 14063 Fredonia, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Cell separation was used to follow the fate of the cortical cells of the adrenal gland in primary culture, and to assess some of the changes that occur as cells adapt to culture conditions. Primary cultures of rat adrenal gland were dissociated with trypsin and separated by velocity sedimentation at unit gravity. After two days in culture, cells showed a reproducible sedimentation profile consisting of two classes of cells with mean sedimentation rates of 5.8 and 2.1 mm/h, and a third sedimentation peak consisting mainly of nuclei at 0.5mm/h. All populations continued to incorporate 3H-thymidine in relatively constant proportion throughout the culture period, but the relative number of cells in the 2.1 mm/h peak increased two-fold in the last few days of primary culture. Cells labelled in primary culture, but separated after an additional 5 days in secondary culture had lost proportionately more labelled cells from the 5.8 mm peak. The results suggest that cells of the 2.1 mm peak survive longer in culture in a post-replicative condition.Work reported in this paper was performed while the author was a Research Fellow of the National Cancer Institute of Canada in the laboratory of Dr. N. Auersperg, Cancer Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
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Keywords: | Cell separation Adrenal Primary cell culture Sedimentation velocity 3H-thymidine incorporation |
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