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  • Title: Difference between dorsal and ventral iris in lens producing potency in normal lens regeneration is maintained after dissociation and reaggregation of cells from the adult newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster.
    Author: Okamoto M, Ito M, Owaribe K.
    Journal: Dev Growth Differ; 1998 Feb; 40(1):11-8. PubMed ID: 9563906.
    Abstract:
    In Wolffian lens regeneration, lentectomized newt eye can produce a new lens from the dorsal marginal iris, but the ventral iris has never shown such capabilities. To investigate the difference of lens regenerating potency between dorsal and ventral iris epithelium at the cellular level, a transplantation system using cell reaggregates was developed. Two methods were devised for preparing the reaggregates from pigmented iris epithelial cells. One was rotating cells in an agar-coated multiplate on a gyratory shaker and the other was incubating cells in a microcentrifuge tube after slight centrifugation. Reaggregates made of dorsal iris cells that had been completely dissociated into single cells were phenotypically transformed into a lens when placed in the pupillary region of the lentectomized host eye. None of the ventral reaggregates produced a lens. Even dorsal reaggregates could not transdifferentiate into lens when they were placed away from the pupil. The produced lenses from the reaggregates were morphologically and immunohistochemically identified. To obtain evidence whether produced lenses really originated from singly dissociated cells, we labeled dissociated cells with a fluorescent dye (PKH26) before reaggregate formation and then traced it in the produced lens.
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