title: [Establishment and differentiation of murine EG cell lines derived from primordial germ cells].
abstract: Primordial germ cells (PGC) were isolated from 8.5, 10.5, 12.5 days post coitum (dpc) embryos of F1 (Balb/c x ICR), C57BL/6J, 129/svJ, 129/sv-ter mice, and cultured on mitotically inactive MEF or STO feeder layer cells with addition of leukemia inhibitory factor, stem cell factor and basic fibroblast growth factor in cultures. PGCs formed densely packed and AKP positive colonies with pluripotential marker gene (oct-4) expression resembling undifferentiated ES cells in morphology and growth pattern. Five EG cell lines derived from PGCs were established: EG1(8.5 dpc, F1), EG2 and EG3 (8.5 dpc, C57BL/6J), EG4 (10.5 dpc, 129/svJ), EG5 (10.5 dpc, 129/sv-ter). No long term culture was obtained from 12.5 dpc PGCs of 29 embryos. All five EG cell lines cultured on feeder layer cells or in LIF containing medium still remain undifferentiated state at 15 th passage. Under appropriate conditions, EG cells formed embryoid bodies in suspension culture and multiple types of differentiated cells in monolayer culture. When these EG cells were injected in nude mice, they formed teratocacinomas containing differentiated cells such as cartilage, neural tissue and epithelium. These results show that EG1-5 cell lines derived from 8.5, 10.5 dpc embryos are pluripotential.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai 200031, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Tsung
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology*; D005260:Female; D005854:Germ Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D006133:Growth Substances