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Drosophila melanogaster embryos were injected before the blastoderm stage with conditioned media from several male Burkitt's lymphoma human cell lines and the Daudi cell line. Such injections do not have any effect on the male genital apparatus or on the female tract. The Daudi conditioned medium modifies the ovarian morphogenesis of the flies and the rudimentary ovaries obtained look like nymphal gonads. Moreover, they have a drastically reduced number of germ cells. The ovaries that looked functional contain numerous necrotic germ cells and the mean number of ovarioles per fly is significantly smaller than that of the controls. The abnormalities observed resemble the results of experimental and genetic lack of germ cells. They disappear at very high dilution (1×10−6).
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Richard -Mercier, N., Thomas -Orillard, M. & Fellous, M. Abnormal ovarian morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster after injection of embryos with conditioned media from the Daudi cell line. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 197, 370–374 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00375958
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