STAGE-RELATED CAPACITY FOR LIMB CHONDROGENESIS IN CELL-CULTURE
STAGE-RELATED CAPACITY FOR LIMB CHONDROGENESIS IN CELL-CULTURE
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(77)90110-5
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
REITER, RS
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作者:
AHRENS, PB;SOLURSH, M;REITER, RS
Cells from wing buds of varying-stage chick embryos were dissociated and grown in culture to test their capacity for cartilage differentiation. Micro-mass cultures were initiated with a cell layer greater than confluency, which occupied a restricted area of the culture dish surface (10-13 mm2). Cells from stage 24 chick embryo wing buds (prior to the appearance of cartilage in vivo) undergo cartilage differentiation in such cultures. During the first 1-2 days of culture, cells formed aggregates (clusters of cells with a density 1.5 times greater than that of the surrounding nonaggregate area). By day 3 virtually all aggregates differentiated into cartilage nodules which were easily recognized by their Alcian blue staining (pH 1.0) extracellular matrix. Nodules increased in size and adjacent nodules began to coalesce. Micro-mass cultures were used to test the chondrogenic capacity of wing bud cells from chick embryos representing the different stages of limb development up to the appearance of cartilage in vivo (stages 17-25). Cells from embryo stages 21-24 formed aggregates which differentiated into cartilage nodules in vitro with equal capacity (scored as number of nodules/culture). Cells from embryo stages 17-19 formed aggregates in similar numbers, but these aggregates never differentiated into nodules under routine conditions. Aggregates which formed in cultures of stage 19 wing bud cells did differentiate into cartilage nodules if exposed to dibutyryl cyclic[c]AMP and theophylline. Cells from stage 20 embryos manifested a varying capacity to form cartilage nodules; apparently, this was a transition stage. Cells from stage 25 embryos produced cartilage in vitro without forming either aggregates or nodules. A model for cartilage differentiation from embryonic mesoderm cells is proposed, involving: aggregation, acquisition of the ability to respond to the environment in the aggregate, elevated intracellular cAMP levels, and stabilization and expression of cartilage phenotype.