Tissue Culture Methods
Tissue Culture Methods
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组织培养方法
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-6076-9_7
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
H. Oberlander
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作者:
H. Oberlander
In 1915 Richard Goldschmidt, then at Yale, published a brief note that described the first successful organ culture of an insect tissue. His paper on Cecropia spermatocytes began with the words, “Unforseen circumstances, that forced me to interrupt my normal work offered a chance for trying some experiments that I have had in mind for some time, to apply the method of tissue culture to the study of sex cells with the purpose of rendering the history of these cells accessible to experimental analysis” (Goldschmidt 1915 p. 220; italics H.O.). His recognition of the utility of tissue culture for the study of insect physiology was prophetic. However, it was not until the past decade that tissue culture techniques became widely used by insect physiologists. The application of in vitro methods to problems in insect physiology and development has met with outstanding success (Kurstak and Maramorosch 1976; Maramorosch 1976). It is now a matter of routine to produce wings or legs in a petri dish from presumptive tissues incubated with the appropriate hormones in a nutritive medium. In such experiments, the insect is discarded after it has been the donor of the tissue of interest. In instances where continuous cell lines have been established from insect tissues, insects need not be maintained at all.