Lentoid formation in ectopic grafts of lentectomized eyes of rat foetuses.
Enucleated and lentectomized eyeballs of 14- and 18-day rat foetuses were grafted under the kidney capsule of adult syngeneic rats for a period of 5-66 days. The grafts were then analysed by routine histology for the presence of lentoids. These developed only in 4 out of 41 grafts from the 18-day foetuses. Their origin from the retinal epithelium was evident from the cellular continuity via gradual transitional cellular forms. Lentoids did not develop in grafts from 14-day rat foetuses.
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Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Svajger
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D005123:Eye / Q000196:embryology / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology* / Q000196:embryology; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic