Synthesis of sulfated glycosaminoglycans by the three cell types of the rabbit cornea in culture.
Rabbit corneal cells were cultivated for 21 days and then exposed to Na235SO4, a precursor of sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAG). All 3 cell types of the cornea, the fibroblasts, the epithelial as well as the endothelial cells, synthesize GAG. The fractionation-patterns of the epithelial and endotherlial GAG are almost identical and differ clearly from the one of fibroblastic GAG.
D000818:Animals; D003315:Cornea / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D046508:Culture Techniques; D004727:Endothelium / Q000378:metabolism; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D004848:Epithelium / Q000378:metabolism; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D011817:Rabbits; D013431:Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism
D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D013431:Sulfates