[A morphofunctional analysis of the parietal exocrinocytes of the gastric glands proper after removal of the testes].

Abstract

In the experiment performed in 52 white male rats by means of light electron microscopy methods, cytochemistry and biochemistry with a subsequent cytophoto- and morphometric analysis, it has been stated that bilateral removal of the testes does not inhibit essentially the differential process of the parietal exocrinocytes, but facilitates the development of certain dystrophic processes in them. The latter are demonstrated as decrease of secretory membranes balance in the cell, of quantitative density of mitochondria, of crysts area, of matrix vacuolization. Activity of oxidoreductase in Krebs cycle, of pentosophosphate shunt and glycolysis decreases. Most of the changes mentioned are not large, but stable. Despite this, acid-producing function of the parietal exocrinocytes is essentially inhibited.