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Development, Vol 110, Issue 4 1091-1099, Copyright © 1990 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
L Schuger, KS O'Shea, BB Nelson and J Varani
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109.
The behavior of embryonic murine lung cells on a basement membrane extract (Matrigel) was investigated. Single cell suspensions generated by trypsinization of lungs removed from day 12 embryos were plated on Matrigel and cultured for up to one week. The basement membrane extract was used as a gel, and as a wet or dried film. In all of these instances, organotypic arrangement of the embryonic lung cells was observed. This process consisted of cell aggregation, sorting, polarization and formation of a tridimensional organization resembling embryonic lung. The maximal degree of organotypic development was obtained by using a thick gel; minimal reorganization was observed using a dried film. A rabbit polyclonal serum to laminin inhibited organotypic pattern formation while normal rabbit serum did not. Culture of lung cells on laminin gels promoted epithelial cyst formation but poor mesenchymal organization. By studying the behavior of epithelial and/or mesenchymal enriched cell populations on Matrigel, it was concluded that organotypic pattern formation on Matrigel required the presence of both cell populations. Cultivation of dissociated lung cells on a gel consisting of a mixture of collagens type I and III (Vitrogen-100) produced only cell aggregation. Cultivation of lung cells on a thin film of Vitrogen-100 or on uncoated tissue culture plastic produced monolayers of mesenchymal cells alone. Cultivation of lung cells in suspension also failed to induce organotypic arrangement even at maximal cell densities. The present study strongly supports a role for the basement membrane in the organotypic rearrangement of embryonic lung cells and subsequent in vitro cyst formation and budding of the reestablished epithelium. This, in turn, reinforces the concept of the basement membrane as a major regulator of organogenesis.
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