Chick embryo fibroblasts cultivated in vitro and Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (in vivo or in vitro) have been treated with amphotericin B. Cell multiplication is strongly inhibited. Large clear zones appear in the fibroblast nucleoi (phase-contrast and electron-microscope observations). Many treated fibroblasts and tumour cells have a high DNA content (pre-mitotic or polyploid level; measurement...

We have attempted a fine characterization of the angiogenic response induced by multiple myeloma endothelial cells (MMEC) by using the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay and by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results showed that in the CAM assay MMEC induced an angiogenic response comparable to that of a well-known angiogenic cytokine, namely fibroblast ...

Marked degeneration and disintegration of the chick embryo fibroblast was observed in tissue cultures after their exposure to sera of patients with active or inactive rheumatic heart disease or to the filtrates of beta hemolytic streptococci. Some tissue specificity was demonstrated; sera of the patients or the filtrates of the streptococci failed to affect contractility of the myocardial cells...

BACKGROUND The Optic nerve is rarely involved after sheep brain anti-rabies vaccination in the form of retrobulbar neuritis or papillitis. Bilateral neuroretinitis after chick embryo cell antirabies vaccination has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 56 year old male who developed bilateral neuro-retinitis following three injections of antirabies vaccine prepared from...

A possible mechanism for intercellular invasion is that the strength of adhesion between host and invading cells is greater than the average of the strengths of homotypic adhesions. This hypothesis has been examined by a study of the kinetics of aggregation of dispersed populations of an invasive cell type (the rabbit peritoneal neutrophil granulocyte) and a host cell type (the chick embryo hea...

This study evaluates the suitability of flow cytometry with the fluorochrome BCECF for measuring the intracellular pH (pHi) of cultured cells, and monitors the changes in pHi in murine hybridoma in batch culture and chick embryo fibroblast in monolayer culture (5th passage). The technique produced highly reproducible, repeatable results. The theoretical sensitivity from the calibration curve wa...

An eggshell is a porous microstructure that regulates the passage of gases to allow respiration. The chick embryo and its circulatory system enclosed by the eggshell has become an important model for biomedical research such as the control of angiogenesis, cancer therapy, and drug delivery test, because the use of embryo is ethically acceptable and it is inexpensive and small. However, chick em...

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the effect of serum or chick embryo extract (CEE) on the neuronal differentiation of the mouse neural crest cells. When the crest cells were cultured in the medium containing serum at low concentration (5% calf serum), neurite outgrowth was observed. The active outgrowth was detected at 3-4 days in culture. However, in the medium supplemented with ...

How does FGF (fibroblast growth factor) signaling induce both neural and mesodermal cell fates in the early embryo? Two papers address this fundamental question in this issue of Cell. Bertrand et al. show in the ascidian that a GATA factor determines the neural response of animal cells to FGF signaling, while in the chick, Sheng et al. demonstrate that the slow induction by FGF of a new transcr...

A new antibiotic, ascochlorin, C23H29O4CI, was obtained from the filter cake of the fermented broth of Ascochyta viciae Libert. Ascochlorin inhibits plaque formation of both DNA and RNA viruses in the agar-diffusion plaque inhibition method. However, it showed no antiviral activity by the tube culture method. It showed cytotoxicity to chick embryo fibroblast monolayer and HeLa cells at a concen...