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  • Title: Cell transplantation into immunodeficient chicken embryos. Reconstituting capacity of cells from the yolk sac at different stages of development and from the liver, thymus, bursa of Fabricius, spleen and bone marrow of 15-day embryos.
    Author: Eskola J.
    Journal: Immunology; 1977 Apr; 32(4):467-74. PubMed ID: 24586.
    Abstract:
    Cyclophosphamide-treated 18-day-old chicken embryos were transplanted with histocompatible cells from the yolk sac at different stages of development and from the liver, thymus, bursa of Fabricius, spleen and bone marrow of 15-day-old-embryos. At the age of 36 days, the cell recipients were studied to determine the reconstitution capacity of the transplanted cells. The parameters used include the survival pattern, gain of body weight, antibody-forming capacity, response of peripheral blood lymphocytes to Con A, weight and microscopic morphology of the bursa of Fabricius, and weight of spleen and thymus. By all the criteria employed, only bursa cells were capable of a functional and morphological reconstitution of the recipient's humoral immune system. These data indicate that the role of the yolk sac as the first generator of prebursal stem cells remains questionable. In addition, these findings confirm the previous observations that, as a differentiation site of the B-cell lineage, the bursa of Fabricius precedes the bone marrow during ontogenetic development.
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