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| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Wicha, M. S. Lowrie, G. Kohn, E. Bagavandoss, P. Mahn, T. |
| Abstract | The study of growth and differentiation of mammary epithelium has been hampered by the difficulty of maintaining these functions in vitro. We describe a system for the primary culture of rat mammary epithelium on an acellular matrix derived from whole rat mammary glands that maintains growth and differentiation for months. Cultures plated on this complex substratum produce 50 times the alpha-lactalbumin of those on tissue culture dishes and 5 times the alpha-lactalbumin of those on floating collagen gels as determined by radioimmunoassay. Unlike cultures grown on floating collagen gels, which rapidly lose the ability to secrete the milk sugar lactose, mammary cells on this matrix retain this ability for over 30 days in culture. The organ specificity of this mammary extracellular material is shown by the failure of extracellular matrix prepared from rat liver to support mammary differentiation. Within a given culture dish, cells on the surface of mammary extracellular matrix are more differentiated than those on the adjacent plastic. This is demonstrated by their increased alpha-lactalbumin content as shown by indirect immunofluorescence, and by their increased ability to bind fluorescein-conjugated peanut lectin. Cells on the surface of the matrix continue to synthesize DNA as determined by [3H]thymidine incorporation and autoradiography. Even when mammary epithelial cells are plated at low density, cell division continues until the matrix is covered with a confluent layer. We propose that the limited growth, differentiation, and survival of mammary cells in previously described in vitro systems may have been due to substrate that were inadequate to support these functions. |
| Starting Page | 3213 |
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| ISSN | 10916490 |
| e-ISSN | 10916490 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Volume Number | 79 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1982-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Multidisciplinary |
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