T his issue of the Journal marks the fiftieth anniversary of the paper where Keith Porter, Albert Claude, and Ernest FuUam published the first electron micrograph of a complete cell (1). The cell was a fibroblast grown in tissue culture from the foregut of a chick embryo. The March 1945 article in which this micrograph appears, "A Study of Tissue Culture Cells by Electron Microscopy" opened the...

T his issue of the Journal marks the fiftieth anniversary of the paper where Keith Porter, Albert Claude, and Ernest FuUam published the first electron micrograph of a complete cell (1). The cell was a fibroblast grown in tissue culture from the foregut of a chick embryo. The March 1945 article in which this micrograph appears, "A Study of Tissue Culture Cells by Electron Microscopy" opened the...

Production of HVJ (Sendai virus) wild-type in rat glial cells was characteristically restricted at high temperature. The synthesis of the M protein was selectively decreased in infected cells at 39 degrees C. This temperature-sensitive (ts) character of HVJ was not observed in infection of LLCMK2 cells or chick embryo fibroblast cells. Newcastle disease virus, mumps virus and vesicular stomatit...

We have previously reported that the binding properties of the hemagglutinin (HA) of the WSN-F strain of influenza A are affected by the cells in which the virus is grown (Crecelius, D. M., Deom, C. M., and Schulze, I.T. (1984) Virology 139, 164-177); at 37 degrees C chick embryo fibroblast-grown F virus has a greater affinity for host cells than does the same virus grown in Madin-Darby bovine ...

Eight d (8d) and 16d (16d) chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) exhibited marked differences in their adhesive capacity on plastic support, but not on fibronectin substratum. This suggests differences in fibronectin (FN) expression and/or FN receptor expression. Both 8d and 16d CEF expressed an identical number of membrane receptors for FN with similar affinity. In contrast, the newly synthesized FN ...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of chromic chloride (CrCl3) on chick embryo fibroblast (CEF) viability. The cells were incubated with CrCl3 (0.02, 0.1, 0.5, 2.5, 12.5, and 62.5 μM), and the viability was determined using MTT assay, morphological detection and flow cytometry. The results show that lower concentrations of CrCl3 (0.02, 0.1, and 0.5 μM) did not damage CEF via...

Extracellular matrix (ECM), prepared from chick embryo fibroblasts, contains fibronectin as the major structural protein along with collagen and other polypeptides as less abundant protein components. When Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chick embryo fibroblasts are cultured on the ECM in the presence of the tumor promoter tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate, the transformed cells lose their character...

Fibroblast surface (SE) antigen is present in fibrillar surface structures of cultured normal fibroblasts, shed to the extracellular medium, and is also found in circulation (serum and plasma). Malignant fibroblasts (transformed by viruses) do not express SF antigen on the cell surface. In this study the in vivo differentiation and distribution of SF antigen has been investigated in the develop...

we studied the hepatotoxic effects of a deltamethrin containing formulation (decis®) on developing em-bryo of gallus domesticus. fertilized eggs were immersed in three different concentrations of deltamethrin (12.5, 25 and 50 mg/l) for 60 min at 37 ˚c prior to incubation (ed 0) and on the 4th day of incubation (ed 4) and incubated till embryonic day (ed) 16. exposure to 50 mg/l of deltamethrin ...

Primary and passaged cultures of chick embryo fibroblasts, prepared from 10-day embryonic skin and 12-day embryonic skeletal muscle, synthesize and secrete hyaluronidase at level comparable to the tissues of origin. The level of cell-associated hyaluronidase remains approximately constant during culture while the enzyme accumulates extracellularly such that within a 48-h incubation period, leve...