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Development, Vol 102, Issue 1 65-69, Copyright © 1988 by Company of Biologists
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G Cossu, G Ranaldi, MI Senni, M Molinaro and E Vivarelli
Istituto di Istologia ed Embriologia generale, I. Universita di Roma, Italia.
Mesenchymal cells were isolated from somites and limbs of mouse embryos at different developmental stages. When grown in tissue culture, some of the cells underwent muscle differentiation as indicated by synthesis of sarcomeric myosin, acetylcholine receptor and, in the case of limb cells, fusion into multinucleated myotubes. When the tumour promoter 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA) was added to these cultures, it caused differential effects, depending upon the age of the embryo from which cells were isolated. In cultures of somites or limb bud from embryos up to 12 days post coitum, TPA did not interfere with the appearance of differentiated muscle cells. When TPA was added to cultures from older embryos, it inhibited muscle differentiation with an efficiency which increased with the age of the embryo, reaching about 90% inhibition at 15 days. After this period, a new population of myogenic cells appeared in the limb, which were able to differentiate in the presence of TPA and represented the great majority of myoblasts after day 18 of embryonic development. The simplest interpretation of these data can be based on the existence of three major classes of myogenic cell precursors, which appear sequentially during muscle histogenesis: 'early' myoblasts, which appear resistant to tumour promoters; 'late' myoblasts, whose differentiation is inhibited by tumour promoters and 'satellite' cells which, like early myoblasts, show no sensitivity to TPA.
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