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In vitro organotypic cultivation of adult newt and rat retinas

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Adult rat and newt retinas were studied during long organotypic 3D cultivation. A high proliferation level was discovered in the region of growth by applying DNA synthesis markers and in vitro mitosis registration in newt retina. Aggregates were formed in the retina spheroid cavity because dedifferentiated cells migrated into this region. Small cell populations in nuclear layers also had dividing and migration capacity. Rosette formation has been shown in newt retina. It is a characteristic of fetal retinal development under pathological conditions. The antiGFAP antibody dye demonstrated an increase in the parent Müller cell population and generation of a small cell pool with short GFAP-extensions de novo. Recoverin expression studies detected its translocation from photoreceptor extensions to the cell bodies. Moreover, protein was presented in some cells inside the spheroid. It has been shown for the first time that cell proliferation occurred in the adult rat retinal spheroid developing in vitro; BrdU-positive cells and multiple mitoses were revealed in this fissue. However, the source of proliferation was not in the peripheral retina, and resident macrophages and glial cells located among neurons of the inner nuclear layer had the ability to divide. The antiGFAP antibody showed an increase in GFAP fibers in the rat retina as well as in the newt retina. Recoverin translocated into photoreceptor perikaryons and the outer plexiform layer in cultivated rat retina. Interestingly, some cells with probably de novo expression of recoverin were discovered in rat and newt inner retinas.

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    Yu. P. Novikova, K. S. Aleynikova, M. S. Krasnov, V. A. Poplinskaya & E. N. Grygoryan

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Original Russian Text © Yu.P. Novikova, K.S. Aleynikova, M.S. Krasnov, V.A. Poplinskaya, E.N. Grygoryan, 2010, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2010, No. 4, pp. 389–402.

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Novikova, Y.P., Aleynikova, K.S., Krasnov, M.S. et al. In vitro organotypic cultivation of adult newt and rat retinas. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 37, 327–338 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359010040011

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