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Development, Vol 114, Issue 3 573-582, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
S Ihara and Y Motobayashi
Department of Plastic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Foetal rat skin rapidly closes an open wound in organ culture and in vivo, this possibly being unique to organs still in the morphogenetic stage. In the present study, examination was made of morphological changes in foetal rat skin during closure of open wounds inflicted at day 16 of gestation. Phase-contrast microscopy of open-wounded skin cultured in vitro indicated inward spreading of the peripheral skin to be responsible for wound closure. Wound closure in vitro was inhibited by cytochalasin B (10 micrograms/ml), not by hydroxyurea (2 mM), indicating prenatal wound closure to be mediated by regulation of the microfilament system rather than cell proliferation. During wound closure in vitro and in vivo, light and scanning electron microscopy of the peripheral skin showed cells in the periderm, the outermost layer of the foetal epidermis, to elongate centripetally and en masse, whereas the shape of underlying epidermal cells not to change. Numerous spindle-shaped cells and fibrous matrices in the mesenchyme were redistributed, becoming oriented along the wound edge. Following isolation of the mesenchyme and epidermis by treatment with Dispase and separate culturing, the capacity for wound closure in vitro was found to be retained only by the mesenchyme. Cellular activity within the mesenchyme, rather than in the epidermis, would thus appear essential to wound closure in foetal rat.
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