[A radioautographic study of the turnover and differentiation of mast cells in normal mice and mouse radiation chimeras].

The patterns of renewal of the previously labeled by 35S-sulphate mast cells of peritoneal liquor and loose connective tissue were investigated in normal mice, after their irradiation and transplantation of singenic and xenogenic bone marrow (radiation mouse chimaeras). The renewal of labeled mast cells in the peritoneal liquor proceeds markedly (ca. 10 times) more intensively than in the loose connective tissue. A stage of lymphocyte-like cells-precursors actively synthesizing sulphomucopolysaccharides is established in the series of differentiation of mast cells during postnatal ontogenesis. The duration of this stage amounts to 10-15 days. The patterns of renewal of the previously labeled by 35S-sulphate mast cells do not differ markedly in normal animals and radiation chimaeras.