STIMULATION OF CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL-PROLIFERATION INVITRO BY FIBROBLAST AND EPIDERMAL GROWTH-FACTORS
STIMULATION OF CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL-PROLIFERATION INVITRO BY FIBROBLAST AND EPIDERMAL GROWTH-FACTORS
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4835(77)90248-2
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
BIRDWELL, CR
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作者:
GOSPODAROWICZ, D;MESCHER, AL;BIRDWELL, CR
Bovine corneal endothelial cell culture was developed to study the factors controlling corneal endothelium proliferation. Cells were prepared by scraping the posterior corneal surface gently with a grooved director. Endothelial segments were then suspended in DME with 10% calf serum and 100 ng/ml of fibroblast growth factor (FGF). After 4 days, corneal endothelial cells attached to the tissue culture dish, giving rise to colonies of small, rapidly dividing cells. Fixed cultures stained with AgNO3 to acentuate the intercellular function revealed the closely apposed nature of the polygonal cells within the monolayer, and the ovoid nucleus positioned eccentrically in each cell. This morphology was similar to that observed with the corneal endothelium in vivo. Ultrastructure of bovine corneal endothelial cells grown in vitro was typical of cells with high metabolic rates. Cells had numerous mitochondria, polysomes and microfilament bundles. Ultrastructure and histochemical staining of the culture with alcian green demonstrated that cells maintained in culture produced extracellular collagenous material. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) were mitogenic in vitro for endothelial cells derived from bovine corneas. Cells maintained at low density in the presence of 5% bovine plasma divided with a doubling time of 48 h; addition of EGF or FGF reduced cell doubling time to 20-24 h. Final cell density reached in the presence of either growth factor was 10 .times. that of cells maintained in 5% plasma alone. In the presence of 10% calf serum, corneal endothelial cells reached a final density identical to that obtained in 1% serum plus FGF, and addition of FGF to 10% serum resulted in a final density 3.times. higher than that observed with 10% serum alone. Inclusion of FGF in DME medium containing serum permitted cloning of corneal endothelial cells from cultures seeded at low density (0.6 cells/cm2). Half-maximal response for stimulation of proliferation with EGF was at 1.5 .times. 10-10M and with FGF at 6 .times. 10-10M. EGF and FGF stimulated DNA synthesis in resting corneal endothelial cells, with EGF effective from 1.5 .times. 10-15 to 1.5 .times. 10-13 and FGF effective from 7 .times. 10-12 to 7 .times. 10-9 M. Autoradiography demonstrated that FGF and EGF, like serum, stimulated the cell population as a whole to initiate DNA synthesis.