PRIMARY CULTURES OF DISSOCIATED SYMPATHETIC NEURONS .1. ESTABLISHMENT OF LONG-TERM GROWTH IN CULTURE AND STUDIES OF DIFFERENTIATED PROPERTIES
PRIMARY CULTURES OF DISSOCIATED SYMPATHETIC NEURONS .1. ESTABLISHMENT OF LONG-TERM GROWTH IN CULTURE AND STUDIES OF DIFFERENTIATED PROPERTIES
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.59.2.329
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
PATTERSON, PH
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作者:
MAINS, RE;PATTERSON, PH
Rat sympathetic ganglia were disrupted by mechanical agitation to yield dissociated primary neurons, and the conditions for long-term growth in culture of the isolated neurons were examined. The neurons were grown with or without non-neural cells, simply by the addition or deletion of bicarbonate during growth in culture. Fluorescence histochemistry indicated that the isolated neurons contained catecholamines; incubations with radioactive precursors were used to verify the synthesis and accumulation of both dopamine and norepinephrine. The neurons also produced octopamine using tyramine as precursor, but not with tyrosine as the precursor. In the presence of eserine, older cultures synthesized and stored small amounts of acetylcholine. The cultures did not synthesize and accumulate detectable levels of radioactive y-aminobutyric acid, 5-hydroxytryptamine, or histamine. tissue culture system consisting of long-term cultures of dissociated primary neurons of known homogeneous origin and function which could be grown in the presence or absence of other cell types. There are several culture systems which meet some of these criteria using neurons from various embryonic sources (dorsal root ganglia: Scott et al., 1969, Miller et al., 1970, Okun, 1972; cerebrum: Varon and Raiborn, 1969; spinal cord: Fischbach, 1972). These neurons can be grown in the virtual absence of non-neural cells by use of separation procedures or antimitotic agents. Also available are tumor cells apparently of nervous origin (Augusti-Tocco and Sato, 1969; Schubert et al., 1969).