Differentiation in vitro of larval cell types from early embryonic cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
A variety of cell types develop when cells of 6 1/2-8 1/2 h Drosophila embryos are cultured in an improved medium. Nerve, muscles, fat-body, chitin-secreting, and macrophage-like cells (possibly haemocytes) appear in the first 24 h and mature over the next week. Tracheal, imaginal disc, a second stage of the macrophage-like, and a anumber of unidentified fibroblastic and epithelial cells appear in the 2nd and 3rd week, following a resumption of cell multiplication. There is some organization of some of the cell types into higher structures.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000196:embryology; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002686:Chitin / Q000378:metabolism; D003470:Culture Media; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology*; D007814:Larva; D008264:Macrophages; D009132:Muscles / Q000196:embryology; D009417:Nerve Tissue / Q000196:embryology; D013997:Time Factors; D014132:Trachea / Q000196:embryology
D003470:Culture Media; D002686:Chitin