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Developmental potential of day 13 porcine embryonic disk under in vitro culture conditions

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Embryonic disks were microsurgically isolated from adjacent trophoblast tissue, and cultured for varying periods in vitro. During the first 24 h of culture, vesicles (1 to 4/disk) composed of mesoderm and endoderm formed from the ventral surface. In the subsequent culture period, the vesicles continued to increase in size and by 96 h in vitro, most originally multivesiculated explants possessed a single vesicle formed by delamination and coalescence of smaller vesicles. Scanning electron microscopy revealed the formation of grooves and ridges in abnormal attempts at differentiation by the embryonic ectoderm. Endoderm comprising the outer tissue layer of the vesicle underwent a gradual alteration in surface morphology during in vitro culture. Initially flat, with a paucity of microvilli, these cells became dome-shaped with an abundance of microvilli. In addition, they became highly secretory as revealed by the presence of numerous secretory droplets at their surface. After culture for periods of up to 10 d, several explants displayed areas containing pulsating tissue, with contractions occurring at a rate of 20 to 30/minute, indicative of mesoderm differentiation. Culture of porcine isolated embryonic disk in vitro should enhance investigations into the regulation of germ, layer formation and differentiation and assist in determining the tissue source of conceptus secretory products.

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This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, grant RR7071. Paper no. 11342 of Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC 27695-7601.

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Silcox, R.W., Johnson, B.H. Developmental potential of day 13 porcine embryonic disk under in vitro culture conditions. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 24, 1165–1172 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02624185

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