Organ cultures of mouse tooth germs were set up with and without polyoma virus and grown on gelatin sponges for up to 50 days. After 21 days, the epithelium in the polyoma-infected cultures proliferated through the sponge while the uninfected epithelium dedifferentiated and did not proliferate.
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