“Epithelial” foci of presumptive neural origin in cultures of normal mouse colon

✍ Scribed by L. M. Franks; Elizabeth Hamilton; Valerie J. Hemmings

• Book ID: 104505016
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 682 KB
• Volume: 124
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-3417
• DOI: 10.1002/path.1711240105

✦ Synopsis

Patches of cells, which at the light-microscope level appear to be epithelial, persist for several months in cultures of normal mouse colon. Ultrastructural studies showed that these cells were nerve-associated and were probably derived from the Schwann cell-satellite cell group. True epithelial cells all died out within the first 2 wk of culture, and epithelial cell lines could not be established.