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  • Title: An organ culture method for adult colon from germfree and conventional mice: effects of donor age and carcinogen treatment on epithelial mitotic activity.
    Author: Defries EA, Franks LM.
    Journal: J Natl Cancer Inst; 1977 May; 58(5):1323-8. PubMed ID: 857027.
    Abstract:
    An organ culture system by which adult mouse colon epithelium could be maintained in a modified form for several weeks was described. The effects of donor age and carcinogen pretreatment were studied as a preliminary to proposed experiments on the effect of carcinogen treatment in vitro on colon epithelium from mice of different ages. Mitotic activity was compared in explants of colon from germfree C57BL mice 5 weeks, 5 months, and 9 months old; no differences were detected. The effect of old age on mitotic activity was not studied, since colon epithelium from old (30 mo) conventional mice could not be maintained in culture. Colon explants from conventional mice that had been pretreated for 32 weeks with weekly doses of a carcinogen, 1,2-dimethylhydrazine, appeared to have a higher potential for mitotic activity in vitro than did those from age-matched, untreated controls, but the difference was only significant at the 10% level. The epithelial cells were normal in ultrastructure, and the method may be valuable for studies of the direct effects of substances on adult colon epithelium.
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