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Pharyngeal explants and circulatory hemocytes from the tunicateStyela clava were cultured in a medium containing tunicate plasma, artificial seawater, RPMI 1640, and antibiotics. Pharnngeal tissue remained viable and proliferated for up to 72 d in vitro. Proliferative activity maintained the pool of hemocytes within explants and facilitated the migration of pharyngeal hemocytes from explants into culture supernatants. The diversity of morphologically distinct cell types within the hemocyte pool of pharyngeal cultures indicated that cell division was followed by regulated differentiation. In contrast to pharyngeal cultures, suspensions of circulatory hemocytes did not survive for prolonged periods in vitro. Proliferative activity could not be detected in circulatory hemocyte cultures. These results are discussed in terms of the differentiation state of hemocytes and the efficacy of culture conditions.
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This study was supported by the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (grant DCB 85 19848) and by BRSG funds from UCLA Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Flow cytometric facilities were sponsored in part by a Johnson Cancer Center Core Grant (CA 16042). David A. Raftos is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow and recipient of a Frederik B. Bang Scholarship in Marine Invertebrate Immunology administered by the American Association of Immunologist. Dan L. Stillman was supported by an REU supplement from the National Science Foundation.
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Raftos, D.A., Stillman, D.L. & Cooper, E.L. In vitro culture of tissue from the tunicateStyela clava . In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 26, 962–970 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02624470
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