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Ultrastructural changes of Drosophila larval and prepupal salivary glands cultured in vitro with ecdysone

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Alterations in the ultrastructure of in vitro cultured larval salivary glands of Drosophila melanogaster in response to the steroid hormone ecdysone were studied in relation to complex changes in puffing patterns. We found that the changes in the fine structure of cultured glands reflected progression of the puffing pattern, and they paralleled those seen in vivo. We observed that glue secretion by exocytosis, the main function of salivary glands, took place between puff stage 5 (PS5) and PS7. Glue could not be expectorated under culture conditions but was slowly released from the lumen through a duct into the medium. After the cultured glands reached PS13/PS14, further progress of puffing and fine structural alterations required that the ecdysteroid titer be transiently extremely low or absent. Under in vitro conditions we did not observe the putative new secretory program(s) described for glands in vivo after PS12. However, ultrastructural changes which unambiguously indicated that an autohistolytic process had begun in vitro started to appear after PS17. Many salivary gland cells developed numerous features of progressive self-degradation between PS18 and PS21. Actual degradation of salivary glands in vivo seemed to be rapid, but in vitro degradation was never completed, probably due to a lack of exogenous factors from the hemolymph. Manipulations of ecdysone titer in vitro in the culture medium, known during the larval puffing cycle to cause premature induction of developmentally specific puffing patterns, did not affect the normal development of ultrastructural features of the cytoplasm and nucleus.

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Farkaš, R., Šuťáková, G. Ultrastructural changes of Drosophila larval and prepupal salivary glands cultured in vitro with ecdysone. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 34, 813–823 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-998-0036-7

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