Development of embryonic chick oviducts in organ culture under the influence of steroid hormones.

ABSTRACT

Explanted oviducts from 13- and 16-day embryonic female chicks responded to estradiol (1 to 4 micrograms/ml) in the culture medium by forming a thickened epithelium folded into crypts and containing goblet cells and by development of the stroma. In medium containing 3 micrograms/ml estradiol and 0.125 micrograms/ml hydrocortisone, 13-day embryonic oviducts exhibited further development The columnar epithelial cells formed cilia and tubular glands were formed.