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ArticleExperientia1996

Mechanism of age-dependent involution in embryonic chick notochords.

E Ghanem, M Cornelissen, H Thierens, L De Ridder

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Article in Experientia, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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E GhanemDepartment of Anatomy, Embryology and Histology, University of Gent, Belgium.
M Cornelissen
H Thierens
L De Ridder
Ghent University · BE

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Abstract

To study the possible mechanism of the age-dependent involution of the notochord, isolated mesenchyme-free notochords of chick embryos were cultured in vitro and compared with their counterparts in vivo. Two different aspects were evaluated: (1) DNA synthesis measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation and visualized by autoradiography and (2) cell death quantified by counting the number of pyknotic nuclei. The results demonstrate that [3H]thymidine uptake by notochords shows an age-dependent decrease in vitro as well as in vivo. The number of [3H]thymidine-labelled notochord cells, however, is higher in vitro than in vivo. At the same time, there is an age-dependent increase in pyknosis in the notochord in vivo and in vitro. So, during the aging process, the number of both pyknotic nuclei and of [3H]thymidine-labelled nuclei suggest a high turnover of notochord cells in vitro. From these results, we can conclude that the process of involution in aging notochord seems to be controlled by a programmed intrinsic process, which might be influenced partially by the microenvironment in vivo.

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AnimalsAutoradiographyCell DeathChick EmbryoCulture TechniquesDNANotochordTime FactorsDNA

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