TY - JOUR
T1 - Human foreskin mast cell viability and functional activity is maintained ex vivo by coculture with fibroblasts
AU - Levi-Schaffer, Francesca
AU - Kelav-Appelbaum, Rivka
AU - Rubinchik, Evelina
PY - 1995/5
Y1 - 1995/5
N2 - The aim of the present study was to develop longterm culture conditions for foreskin-derived mast cells (HSMC) as we have previously done for rodent peritoneal mast cells (MC) and human lung-derived MC. HSMC were obtained by proteolytic treatment of foreskins from 8-day-old babies (4.8 ± 2.0% purity) and seeded onto a confluent monolayer of human foreskin-derived fibroblasts (HF) in enriched culture medium. HSMC biochemical and functional properties were studied up to 8 days in these cocultures. Twenty-four hours after seeding the cell suspensions from the proteolytic-digested foreskins, all the cells which did not adhere to the HF were washed out. At this time point ~30% of the seeded HSMC were found to adhere to the HF monolayer. The only contaminating cells were endothelial cells (<8%). Cocultured HSMC maintained their normal resting morphology and histamine content (3.1 ± 0.7 pg/cell) up to 8 days in these cocultures. When challenged with compound 48/80 on days 1, 2, 4, and 8 of coculture, HSMC released similar percentages of histamine which were comparable to the one released by freshly isolated HSMC in suspension (~30%). Similarly, HSMC, sensitized with IgE antibodies and challenged at various time of coculture with anti-IgE antibodies, released throughout the experiment comparable percentages of this mediator (~50%). Thus, coculture of HSMC with HF fibroblasts provides a suitable in vitro system for long-term studies on HSMC functional and biochemical properties in a microenvironment which mimics the physiologic one.
AB - The aim of the present study was to develop longterm culture conditions for foreskin-derived mast cells (HSMC) as we have previously done for rodent peritoneal mast cells (MC) and human lung-derived MC. HSMC were obtained by proteolytic treatment of foreskins from 8-day-old babies (4.8 ± 2.0% purity) and seeded onto a confluent monolayer of human foreskin-derived fibroblasts (HF) in enriched culture medium. HSMC biochemical and functional properties were studied up to 8 days in these cocultures. Twenty-four hours after seeding the cell suspensions from the proteolytic-digested foreskins, all the cells which did not adhere to the HF were washed out. At this time point ~30% of the seeded HSMC were found to adhere to the HF monolayer. The only contaminating cells were endothelial cells (<8%). Cocultured HSMC maintained their normal resting morphology and histamine content (3.1 ± 0.7 pg/cell) up to 8 days in these cocultures. When challenged with compound 48/80 on days 1, 2, 4, and 8 of coculture, HSMC released similar percentages of histamine which were comparable to the one released by freshly isolated HSMC in suspension (~30%). Similarly, HSMC, sensitized with IgE antibodies and challenged at various time of coculture with anti-IgE antibodies, released throughout the experiment comparable percentages of this mediator (~50%). Thus, coculture of HSMC with HF fibroblasts provides a suitable in vitro system for long-term studies on HSMC functional and biochemical properties in a microenvironment which mimics the physiologic one.
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U2 - 10.1006/cimm.1995.1071
DO - 10.1006/cimm.1995.1071
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AN - SCOPUS:0029047156
SN - 0008-8749
VL - 162
SP - 211
EP - 216
JO - Cellular Immunology
JF - Cellular Immunology
IS - 2
ER -