{"title":"The regeneration of the cells of the macula densa after subtotal nephrectomy in the rat.","authors":"W Romen, W D Heine, M Hollenz","doi":"10.1007/BF02888999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An autoradiographic study of the proliferative response of the cells of the Macula Densa days or months after the removal of 5/6 of the rat's kidney has shown that these cells are capable of division. The index of labelling of these cells is considerably lower than that of the other cells of the distal tubules. This applies of the kidney of normal controls and to the remnant after partial nephrectomy, shortly after operation as well as several months later. The cells of the Macula Densa therefore seem to represent a more stable population in the nephron. They therefore differ from the other cells of the distal tubules not only in appearance and function, but also in the pattern of cell proliferation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"249-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11316657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The organization, composition and matrix of hepatocyte nuclei exposed to alpha-amanitin.","authors":"K Brasch, G D Sinclair","doi":"10.1007/BF02888994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888994","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alterations in the structure and molecular composition of avian hepatocyte nuclei were compared following administration in vivo of lethal and sub-lethal doses of alpha-amanitin. This toxin interferes with extranucleolar transcription by direct inhibition of RNA polymerase II activity. the resultant effects include: extensive condensation of chromatin, displacement of nucleoplasmic contents and fragmentation of nucleoli. Changes in nuclear morphology were quantitated by stereometry and related to variations in RNA and residual, non-histone proteins (NHP). Gross alterations in nuclear structure and depletion of RNA and NHP levels were of similar magnitude with both doses of amanitin. The effects were fully reversible, however, with a minimal dose but terminal with a lethal dose. DNA and histone protein levels remained unchanged at all stages. These results imply that the process of transciption may itself keep and/or maintain chromatin in a dispersed state, and that in the absence of transcription chromatin naturally condenses. Modification of nuclear proteins may be necessary only to maintain chromatin compacted permanently or for extended periods of time. A model of nuclear organization is proposed to incorporate these considerations and to identify the probable location of the nuclear matrix in situ.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"193-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11317617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deviated formation of intestinal glycocalyx in human stomach cancer cells. Another type of signet ring cell.","authors":"S Tokumitsu, K Tokumitsu, H Nomura, T Takeuchi","doi":"10.1007/BF02888996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The process of glycocalyx formation by the trilaminar membrane was investigated at the subcellular level by use of cultivated cancer cells derived from a human stomach adenocarcinoma. Glycocalyx was apparently synthesized on the characteristic trilaminar membrane of Golgi-derived vesicles which gave rise to cytoplasmic vacuoles which, in turn, fused to form an intracytoplasmic cyst. Characteristic microvilli similar to those of intestinal epithelium extended from the membrane lining the intracytoplasmic cyst. These ultrastructural features agree with earlier histochemical findings in suggesting intestinal metaplasia in the origin of the gastric tumor. The morphologic features of the cancer cells clearly indicated that glycoprotein is first synthesized in the Golgi complex and fully formed mucoprotein then emerges as membrane-bound glycocalyx in the vesicles budding from the Golgi stacks. The glycocalyx layer is an integral part of the external leaflet of the characteristic trilaminar membrane. Abundant deposits of glycocalyx in the intracytoplasmic cyst constituted the ultrastructural basis for a distinctive type of signet ring cell that differed from mucous signet ring cells derived from goblet cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"217-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888996","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11424071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Anteunis, A A Audebert, M Krulik, J Debray, R Robineaux
{"title":"Acute eosinophilic leukemia. An ultrastructural study.","authors":"A Anteunis, A A Audebert, M Krulik, J Debray, R Robineaux","doi":"10.1007/BF02888998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888998","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Observations on a 32 year old male are described. Hematological examination demonstrated leukocytosis with circulating blastosis and dystrophic hypereosinophilia of the blood and bone marrow, with cells at various stages of maturation. Cytotoxic chemotherapy led to complete remission for 5 months followed by a terminal relapse. No features in favor of an \"eosinophilic collagenosis\" were revealed at autopsy. Repetitive ultrastructural studies performed during evolution of the illness demonstrated considerable anomalies of the eosinophil line. The present observation thus shows the clinical, evolutional, cytological and autopsy criteria of an acute eosinophilic leukemia.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"237-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888998","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11316656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidermal chalones and squamous cell carcinomas. The growth inhibitory effects of aqueous epidermal extracts (G1 and G2 chalones) on the epidermis and on a transplantable keratinizing carcinoman in nude mice.","authors":"O H Iversen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Balb/c/nu nude mice that had been transplanted with a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma were injected i.p. with different doses of epidermal chalone, and control animals were injected with saline. The labelling indices (H3TdR) and the mitotic rate (stathmokinetic method with vinblastine sulphate) were determined. In the untreated animals, both the labelling index and the mitotic rate of the tumor were considerably higher than in the epidermis, and the rate of cell birth was almost twice that of the epidermis. Higher doses of chalone were needed to reduce the labelling index for the tumour than for the epidermis, and there was generally a less pronounced dose/response relationship in the tumours than in the epidermis. The same was true of the mitotic rate but here the results were not as obvious as for the labelling index. A possible explanation of the results may be that the tumour cells are less sensitive than epidermal cells to the injected chalones, or that reduced vascularization of the transplanted tumour may lead to reduced access of chalone, or that tumour necrosis may pay a role. However, it is evident that the tumour cells react less than the epidermis to both the G1 and the G2 chalone, and thus the findings of this study do not provide any evidence against the theory that epidermoid transplanted tumours are less sensitive to epidermal chalones than normal tissue of the same histogenetic origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"229-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11368458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrastructural changes of human sural nerves in the neuropathy induced by intrauterine methylmercury poisoning (so-called fetal Minamata disease).","authors":"T Takeuchi, K Eto, S Oyanag, H Miyajima","doi":"10.1007/BF02888989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888989","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biopsy of the sural nerve was performed on three patients with severe Minamata disease of more than 10 years duration. There were so many unmyelinated and poorly myelinated nerve fibers that myelinated fibers scattered irregularly in small numbers or in groups of peculiar features in the intraneural bundle. Abnormaly thin or poorly formed myelin sheaths were noticed. Incomplete myelination and abnormal myelination varied in size and shape appeared as fetal anomaly. Regenerated axons extremely small in size remained singly or in groups following regenerative sprouting. Sometimes, extremely small axons with normal myelination were noticeable, while the axons were lost, leaving myelin sheaths. Axons occasionally contained increased neurofilaments. Schwann cells were not so increased as in adult Minamata disease. Degenerative changes of nerve fibers still proceeded, presumably because the patients lived in the mercury-contaminated district. Myelin degenerations and glycogen deposits in the axoplasm were identified.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"137-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888989","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11623208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A light and electron microscopic study on complete dissociation of rat ascites hepatoma cells under activation of neutral protease and calcium depletion.","authors":"H Katsuya, Y Ishimaru, M Koono, H Hayashi","doi":"10.1007/BF02888991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"159-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11421800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fucosidosis and I-cell disease: a fine structural and silver-staining study of abnormal inclusion bodies in small-intestinal cells.","authors":"L A Ginsel, P H Cambier, Daems WTh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Small-intestinal cells of children with fucosidosis or the I-cell type of lysosomal storage disease were investigated with special attention to the fine structure and silver-staining patterns of abnormal inclusion bodies. The results indicate an accumulation of mucopolysaccharide and or glycoprotein, and lipid materials in the greater part of these inclusion bodies. The significantly enlarged lysosome-like bodies in the absorptive cells of these patients showed the same silver-stain affinity as the Golgi apparatus, apical vesicles and tubules, and the cell coat. This might indicate a crinophagic function of the lysosome-like bodies in the transport or secretion of cell coat material. Additional information is given on the storage of material in the significantly enlarged inclusion bodies in cultured fibroblasts and in the abnormal vacuoles of peripheral blood lymphocytes in I-cell disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"99-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11298189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cell kinetics of mouse urinary bladder epithelium. VII. Changes in proliferation and nuclear DNA content after repeated doses of dibutylnitrosamine.","authors":"T Farsund, O H Iversen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"119-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11623207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrastructure of acute adrenocortical damage due to aminoglutethimide (elipten ciba) in rats.","authors":"J Marek, K Motlik","doi":"10.1007/BF02888992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76800,"journal":{"name":"Virchows Archiv. B, Cell pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"173-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02888992","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11623210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}