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The role of connective tissue in metamorphic changes of the small intestinal epithelium inXenopus laevis tadpoles was investigated by using organ culture techniques and electron microscopy. Tissue fragments isolated from various parts of the small intestine at stage 57 were cultivated. Larval cell death of the epithelium was induced by thyroid hormone in all fragments, whereas adult epithelial development was observed only in fragments isolated from the anterior intestinal region containing the typhlosole where most of the larval connective tissue was localized. The epithelium was then cultivated in recombination with homologous or heterologous non-epithelial components. The adult epithelium developed only in recombinants containing a thick connective tissue layer from the typhlosole. There was no regional difference in the developmental potency of the epithelium itself. In all explants where adult epithelium developed, the connective tissue increased in cell density just beneath the epithelium, which was rapidly proliferating and forming typical islets. At the same time, fibroblasts possessing well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum differentiated close to epithelial cells and often made contact with them. These results indicate that the connective tissue originating from the typhlosole plays an important role in adult epithelial development of the anuran small intestine, probably via direct cell-to-cell contacts or some factor(s) synthesized by the fibroblasts.
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Ishizuya-Oka, A., Shimozawa, A. Connective tissue is involved in adult epithelial development of the small intestine during anuran metamorphosis in vitro. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 201, 322–329 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00592113
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