title: Culture procedure of mesothelial cells from the rat parietal pleura.
abstract: Cultures were made of mesothelial cells obtained by scraping the parietal pleura of the adult rats. The growth was restricted to close polyhedric epithelial-like cells, forming a monolayer. The cellular proliferation continued until the 7th day, followed by a stationary phases. In subcultures the mesothelial cells kept their epithelial type. The cultures were stopped on the 20th day.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D008648:Mesoderm; D008938:Mitosis; D010994:Pleura / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats