In vitro culture of chick down feather bulbi: a tool to obtain proliferating and differentiating keratinocytes in an organotypic structure.
Chick down feather bulbi can be cultured in different culture systems. Morphological analysis and 3H-thymidine incorporation measurements prove that the majority of cells are viable epithelial cells.
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Laboratory for Histology, State University of Gent, Belgium.
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D003470:Culture Media; D003584:Cytological Techniques; D005241:Feathers / Q000166:cytology* / Q000196:embryology; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure
D003470:Culture Media