title: [The cultivation of fragments of the parotid venom-secreting gland in the common adder (Vipera berus)].
abstract: The primary culture of the Vipera berus poison-secretory parotid gland has been obtained. The morphology of the intact secretory epithelium and epithelial cells cultured in different conditions has been examined by light and electron microscopy. The secretory epithelium cells were able to survive in the cultural medium and to adapt to in vitro conditions maintaining their nearly normal ultrastructure corresponding to the stage of active poison secretion commonly observed in epithelial cells of the native gland.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Golubkov
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Lavrovskaia
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Lezhnev
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Savel'eva
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Moshkov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D046508:Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006652:Histological Techniques; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014757:Viper Venoms / Q000378:metabolism*; D017819:Viperidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014757:Viper Venoms
vernacular_title: Kul'tivirovanie fragmentov okoloushnoĭ iadosekretiruiushcheĭ zhelezy gadiuki obyknovennoĭ.