title: [Reversible suppression of muscle differentiation expression in a monolayer culture].
abstract: The phenotype of skeletal-muscle cells of a chick embryo in the primary monolayer culture maintained in the full medium (80% of the Eagle medium, 15% of serum, 5% of embryonic extract) and in the poor one (85% of the Eagle medium, 15% of serum) has been studied using both light and electron microscopy. In the full medium culture, which served as a control, the fusion of myoblasts (the index of fusion 51%) with the consequent formation of muscles fibers was observed. These fibres were able to contract and their ultrastructure was typical for differentiated skeletal-muscle cells. In the medium without an embryonic extract, the fusion of myoblasts was suppressed (the index of fusion 6%). The monolayer fibroblast-like cells lacking characters of differentiated muscle cells and, unlike, having those of typical fibroblasts were most numerous. The transference of myogene cells into fibroblast-like ones is reversal : after the substitution of the poor medium by the full one, both cell fusion (the index of fusion 45-47%) and differentiation of cell fibres are observed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D003470:Culture Media / Q000494:pharmacology; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009132:Muscles / Q000166:cytology*; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media
vernacular_title: Obratimoe podavlenie ékspressii myshechnoĭ differentsiatsii v odnosloĭnoĭ kul'ture.