Effect of extrinsic factors on lentoidogenesis in chick embryo retinal glial cell cultures

Abstract EN

The effect of some factors like serum, medium and glucose on lentoidogenesis were studied in chick embryo retinal glial cell cultures, each one alone.

Foeteal calf serum had great ability to support lentoidogenesis during RG culture especially in high concentrations, while using horse serum during RG culture supported only little lentoids production.

Using the MEM medium with 10% foetal calf serum (F) in the same cultures produced good lentoids.

On the other hand, using the 199 medium with 10% foetal calf serum (F) produced small number of small lentoids, but not as much as those formed in the MEM media culture.

As well as we found that glucose block lentoidogenesis in these cultures.