Organ Culture

The aim of explanting tissues in vitro is to study the behavior and fate of cells, tissues, or organs separated from the whole organism. More precisely, in the case of embryonic tissues, the questions are (a) do the isolated cells or groups of cells continue their proliferation and differentiation as they would in the normal organism, (b) do they behave in an aberrant fashion, and (c) is it possible to modify or reestablish their normal development by external operations?