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Title: Characterisation of lectin binding patterns of mouse bronchiolar and rat alveolar epithelial cells in culture
Authors: McBride, Shirley
Tatrai, Erzsebet
Blundell, Renald
Kovacikova, Zuzana
Cardozo, Lorraine
Adamis, Zoltan
Smith, Tim
Harrison, David J.
Keywords: Epithelial cells
Lectins
Cell culture
Issue Date: 2000
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Citation: McBride, S., Tatrai, E., Blundell, R., Kovacikova., Z., Cardozo. L., Adamis, Z.,...Harrison, D. (2000). Characterisation of lectin binding patterns of mouse bronchiolar and rat alveolar epithelial cells in culture. The Histochemical Journal, 32, 33-40.
Abstract: Lung epithelial cell differentiation pathways remain unclear. This is due in part to the plasticity of these cells and the lack of markers which accurately reflect their differentiation status. The aim of this study was to determine if lectin binding properties are useful determinants of functional differentiation status in vitro. Mouse Clara cells were cultured for 5 days. During this time, no alteration in differentiation was evident by electron microscopy. No significant alteration in binding reactivity of Bauhinia purpurea (BPA), Maclura pomifera (MPA), Concanavalin A, Wheat germ or Helix pomatia lectins occurred in cultures compared with Clara cells in mouse lung tissue. In contrast, nitrotetrazolium blue reductase activity and CC10 expression declined in culture. Rat type II cells were cultured for 8 days. Between days 0 and 4, the number of type II cells identified by electron microscopy was constant at 70–80%, decreasing to 8% by day 6. In contrast, by day 4, only 42% cells retained alkaline phosphatase activity. BPA and MPA reactivity was altered at day 0 and day 4 respectively, compared with cells in situ. Therefore, the reactivity of lectins analysed here does not reflect functional differentiation status of cultured mouse Clara cells. However, BPA and MPA reactivity may be a sensitive indicator of alterations in rat type II cell differentiation in vitro.
Description: This work was supported by the Salvesen Trust. SMcB was a Marie Curie fellow funded by the European Commission. RB is funded by the Government of Malta.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22529
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