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On disturbance of homeostasis in organ-cultured tissue

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The intact membranous rat mesentery was cultured in Eagle's minimum essential medium containing no serum or only low concentrations of serum. The procedure is in some important respects superior to previous organ culture techniques. To estimate the extent of disturbance of homeostasis of the tissue in culture, the spontaneous mast-cell histamine release was quantitated after preculture preparation of the specimens and after different intervals in culture. Also, the proliferation of fibroblasts and mesothelial cells that predominate in the mesentery was assessed at 48 h by cytofluorometric quantitation of DNA in single-tissue cells.

Spontaneous histamine release was time dependent during cultivation, amounting to ca. 50% at 48 h, and was affected by the medium used for moistening the tissue before cultivation. Culturing also brought about great spontaneous increase in the proliferation of fibroblasts and mesothelial cells, the rate being related to the concentration of serum. Addition of the mast-cell secretagogues 48/80 or polymyxin B at 1 h caused rapid release of 50 to 60% of the histamine and was followed by augmented proliferation in the serum-containing media.

The spontaneous increase of cell proliferation in tissue culture may be causally related to mast-cell secretion. Further studies are needed to define factors influencing the spontaneous mast-cell secretion and the mast-cell-dependent mitogenesis in normal tissue cells

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Supported by grants from the Swedish Medical Research Council (Project 5942) and State Board for Animal Experiments.

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Norrby, K., Bergström, S. & Druvefors, P. On disturbance of homeostasis in organ-cultured tissue. In Vitro 20, 607–614 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02619609

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