Tissue Culture Study of Human Gingiva 1. The Morphological Diversity of Cells When Using the Cellophane Membrane Techniques

Abstract

Biopsies of human gingiva were cultivated in multipurpose culture chambers under strips of dialysis cellophane. Epithelial and fibroblastoid cells followed a uniform pattern of emigration and transformation, and phase contrast photographs were used to illustrate these and special cytoplasmic features. Of particular interest were the "fingerprint" patterns in epithelial cells and channels in late-forming fibroblastoid cells ("mosaic cells"). The Golgi complex was unusually apparent in some fibroblastoid cells.