Differentiation of lens in cultures of neural retinal cells of chick embryos |
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Authors: | TS Okada Yoshiaki Itoh Kenji Watanabe Goro Eguchi |
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Institution: | Laboratory for Cell Differentiation and Morphogenesis, Institute for Biophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | When dissociated cells of neural retinae of 8-day-old chick embryos were cultured, monolayer sheets of epithelial cells were obtained. These cells proliferated actively. After about 30 days of culture, both lentoid bodies and pigment cells were differentiated in all plates. In the second and the third generation cultures, both differentiations were also observed. Lentoid bodies showed positive immunofluorescence for fluorescein-isothiocyanate-conjugated antiserum against δ-crystallin. Molecular constituents of lentoid bodies were very similar to those of lenses developing in situ, as revealed by immunodiffusion tests. Several lines of evidence for the “neural retinal” origin of lentoid bodies, as opposed to their being derived from lens cells inadvertently included in the original culture inocula are given. Some implications of the present results for the problem of “determination” are discussed. |
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