[Cultivation of the isolated eye rudiments of birds and mammals]

The cultivated of isolated organs finds ever increasing use for studying urgent problems of normal development and causes of pathogenesis. The system of developing vertebrate eye is one of the models suitable for analysis of a wide range of problems. The organotypical development of isolated eye rudiments with typical morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation of their parts are to be considered as criteria of their complete development. The elaboration of methods of complete cultivation of the early eye rudiments in vitro is one of the urgent tasks of the future, whereas there are methods which allow to grow eye rudiments successfully in vivo.