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MRC Toxicology Unit, MRC Laboratories, Carshalton, Surrey, United Kingdom.
A procedure is described for the isolation of highly enriched fractions of binucleated hepatocytes from rat liver. Liver cells isolated by EGTA and collagenase perfusion were initially subjected to centrifugal elutriation and second to flow cytometry coupled with Hoechst 33342 staining. The elutriation step yielded hepatocyte fractions which contained almost entirely mononuclear diploid cells and fractions enriched in binucleate hepatocytes. The fractions with the highest proportion of binucleated hepatocytes contained between 50 and 56% of these cells. Subsequent flow cytometric cell sorting yielded fractions which contained greater than 80% binucleated cells. These cells were viable in culture as demonstrated by the immunohistochemical detection of bromodeoxyuridine incorporation.
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