花背蟾蜍蝌蚪皮肤在类坏死条件下超微结构的变化~*

已知发生类坏死的无尾两栖类蝌蚪皮肤,可加速被眼诱导为角膜的进程。采用弱酸(0.01N醋酸)和弱碱(0.001N氨水)处理花背蟾蜍蝌蚪皮肤使之发生类坏死,对比观察了正常和发生类坏死皮肤的超微结构,结果发现皮肤在类坏死条件下发生下列变化:(1)表皮细胞内的张力原纤维显得疏松,有变粗及聚集的现象,弱酸处理者更明显;(2)表皮细胞中细胞器减少,细胞质内出现大量液泡;相邻细胞的细胞间隙变狭窄;(3)表皮细胞核内的染色质分布不均匀,浓缩为较大的团块,使核内出现不规则的空隙;(4)基膜中胶原纤维明暗相间的条纹结构较模糊。文中对类坏死条件下皮肤超微结构的变化和加速角膜诱导进程间的可能关系进行了讨论。     

发生类坏死蝌蚪皮肤在诱导并分化为角膜过程中的超微结构

本研究以花背蟾蜍后肢芽期的蝌蚪为材料,以0.001 mol/L氨水(氨水组)和0.01mol/L醋酸(醋酸组)处理皮肤使之发生类坏死,研究发生类坏死的皮肤移植片,在被诱导并分化为角膜过程中的超微结构变化。结果发现:各组细胞表面粘液经历了由少到多,再到少的过程;在皮肤片细胞去分化中,黑色素颗粒逐步消失,其中以氨水组最快,醋酸组次之;细胞间隙在氨水组及醋酸组中均较对照组为窄;实验组胶原纤维趋于均匀的速度较对照组为快。作者认为:类坏死处理导致去分化的加速,粘液的增多,细胞间隙的变窄,以及促进胶原纤维趋于均匀等,与皮肤片透明的加速之间有一定的关系。本文对类坏死与加速皮肤片被诱导和分化为角膜进程间的可能关系进行了讨论。     

小麦根尖细胞分化过程中超微结构变化的研究

本文研究了小麦根尖分生区、伸长区和成熟区中细胞的超微结构变化。发现细胞核从分生区到成熟区,其大小、形态及其内核仁和异染色质结构均发生一些有规律的变化;内质网、液泡、线粒体、质体、细胞壁和胞间隙也存在着一系列有规律的变化;并讨论了这些动态变化与根尖细胞分化的内在联系。     

薄荷头状腺毛分泌过程的超微结构研究

电镜观察表明,刚形成的薄荷头状腺毛的头部细胞,细胞核较大细胞质浓,有一些小液泡,质体和线粒体最显著,分泌前期,内质网及高尔基体数量明显     

中华绒螯蟹神经细胞和胶质细胞的光镜及电镜观察

中华绒螯蟹神经节存在神经细胞和胶质细胞两类细胞。神经细胞膜为３层,细胞质由内质网和核蛋白体的聚合体的所构成的尼氏体,高尔基体,线粒体,液泡等细胞器组成,核膜双层,核仁明显,胶质细胞内含有似神经细胞的细胞器结构,根据细胞核的形态及核内染色质的分布情况,可把胶质细胞分成３类：星形胶质细胞核最大,卵圆形,少突胶质细胞核较小,圆形;小胶质细胞核最小,呈三角形或卵圆形,神经细胞的数量与附肢的生理活动强弱有一     

小麦珠心细胞的超微结构研究

本文报道衰退前的珠心细胞在发育过程中的超微结构变化。大多数珠心表皮细胞和离胚囊较远的珠心细胞有较大的核质比,细胞质中游离核糖蛋白体的密度较大;线粒体和质体数量较多,形态上也有较大变化;有具活跃分泌功能的高尔基体和少量或长或短的粗糙内质网槽库;细胞中有或多或少的小液泡,其中常常含有被消化的细胞质碎片;细胞壁上有很多纹孔和胞间联丝与邻近细胞相通。在离胚囊稍近的珠心细胞中,粗糙内质网迅速增生,出现平行内质网槽库和同心内质网环,后者在一定条件下有可能成为一种自噬结构。同心内质网环包围的细胞质被消化后往往形成小液泡。通过新液泡的形成,原有液泡的扩大和合并,珠心细胞形成大的中央液泡。这时,珠心细胞呈现薄壁组织细胞的典型特征。此后,胚囊进一步扩展??引起这些珠心细胞衰退和死亡。     

四季海棠成熟胚珠的组织化学及超微结构的初步研究

应用四季海棠的胚珠,进行石蜡切片,做PAS反应、苯胺兰黑染色等组织化学染色;又做超薄切片,进行超微结构观察。PAS反应:胚囊内染色深,珠被浅,各处均有红色淀粉粒。苯胺兰黑染色;显示胚囊内蛋白质丰富,卵核质兰色,核仁深兰,反足细胞更深。在超微结构中:珠被细胞中见到细胞核、线粒体、质体、内质网、同心圆潴泡、液泡等,近珠孔处珠被细胞内线粒体较多。珠心细胞内可见微管及其它细胞器。胚囊内助细胞可见丝状器。见到卵核、极核、线粒体、内质网、液泡、质体(其中未见淀粉粒)等。     

锯缘青蟹精子发生的超微结构

采用透射电镜观察锯缘青蟹精子发生过程中超微结构的变化,结果表明：精原细胞椭圆形,染色质分布于核膜周围,胞质中具嵴少的线粒体,内质网小泡等。初级精母细胞染色质呈非浓缩状,胞质中具众 内质网小泡,特殊的膜系及晶格状结构。次级精母细胞核质间出现由内质小泡聚集成的腔。     

西瓜柱头乳突细胞分泌活动期间ATP酶活性超微结构定位

研究了西瓜柱头乳突细胞ＡＴＰ酶活性的超微结构定位。分泌活动旺盛的细胞中,质膜、内质网、质体的内部片层、胞间连丝以及多数大液泡的膜上面都有大量ＡＴＰ酶活性反应产物,线粒体和小泡上只有少量酶活性反应产物。分泌活动停止后处于解体状态的细胞内,反应产物主要定位于液泡膜上。分泌旺盛的乳突细胞质膜具有高的ＡＴＰ酶活性表明分泌物运出需要大量能量,内质网ＡＴＰ酶活性强可能意味着该细胞参与分泌物合成。     

蓖麻蚕前胸腺细胞超微结构的变化与蜕皮激素分泌活动的关系

本研究叙述蓖麻蚕Philosamia cythia ricini四龄及五龄幼虫前胸腺蜕皮激素分泌活动各不同时期所显示的腺细胞超微结构变化.从幼虫蜕皮后至进入眠期之间的腺细胞结构可分为三个时期,(1)不活动期:细胞核呈圆形,核内密布染色质及核仁,细胞质内有结构完整的线粒体、粗面及滑面内质网、核糖体和高尔基氏体;细胞外围的细胞间区内有许多小囊泡及多泡囊.(2)活动期:细胞结构变化为细胞核膜出现内陷、外突,形成波浪形的核周膜;线粒体变形,出现内嵴稀疏的空心线粒体.(3)激素释放期:细胞核变形,形成若干长短不一向外伸出的指状突,有些伸达细胞边缘;其余细胞器退化,其后仅余残缺的高尔基氏体,稀疏的核糖体,线粒体的内崤逐渐消失,成为空腔扩大的及空腔内藏“膜轮”的线粒体,和一些溶解体及大形“膜轮”.     

荔枝雄花性别决定过程中细胞超微结构的变化

荔枝雄花雌蕊原基在大孢子母细胞减数分裂后开始衰退.内质网历经增生扩展,穿壁相连,同心缠绕,多条平行弯曲,不规则堆叠.内质网和高尔基体产生许多囊泡,囊泡在细胞内含物的降解和运输过程中起着重要的作用.线粒体在雌蕊原基细胞衰败的前、中期数量增加,后期分批降解.过氧化物酶体在雌蕊原基细胞衰败的中期紧挨核短暂出现.细胞核的染色质凝集断裂;核周腔扩大,形成胀泡;染色质趋边,外泄.细胞原生质表现出有序的、在膜包裹下的降解,首先是核糖体,而后依次是:过氧化物酶体、内质网、高尔基体、线粒体、核.雌蕊原基的衰败历程可能是一种程序性细胞死亡的过程.     

Midgut ultrastructure of Culex tarsalis (Diptera:Culcidae) before and after a bloodmeal

The midgut ultrastructure of raisin- and blood-fed female mosquitoes, Culex tarsalis Coquillett, was examined. The raisin-fed midgut is characterized by: (1) large nuclei, (2) small mitochondria, (3) short segments of rough endoplasmic reticulum, (4) rough endoplasmic reticular vesicles in the posterior midgut only, and (5) increased autophagic activity with age. Blood feeding elicits drastic changes in midgut epithelial structures: (1) nuclei are smaller, (2) mitochondria are much enlarged, (3) rough endoplasmic reticular vesicles disappear, (4) rough endoplasmic reticular whorls appear, (5) residual lyosomal figures are abundant, and (6) an intercellular accumulation of an electron-opaque material is noted. The significance of rough endoplasmic reticular whorls and vesicles in bloodmeal digestion is discussed. In addition, the concept of a functional host ‘gut barrier’ to infection by pathogens is examined as related to a possible by-pass mechanism.     

Schistosoma mansoni: penetration apparatus and epidermis of the miracidium

Free swimming miracidia of Schistosoma mansoni were studied with the electron microscope for the purpose of describing the penetration apparatus and the epidermis. The penetration apparatus was composed of 3 unicellular glands which contain membrane-bound vesicles containing macromolecular diglycols. Each gland contained a nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi complexes, numerous mitochondria, and glycogen stores. Each gland cell opened to the exterior through the apical papilla.The surface of the miracidium, with the exception of the apical papilla, was covered with ciliated epidermal cells containing numerous mitochondria, membranous bodies, and glycogen. No nuclei were detected within these epidermal cells. Intercellular ridges connecting with subepidermal cytons interrupted the epidermal cells at numerous points. The ridges were joined to the epidermal cells by septate desmosomes. Beneath the epidermal cells were found circular and longitudinal muscle bundles.Sensory structures of various types were associated with the outer covering. These consisted of (1) numerous “knob-like” cytoplasmic projections associated with epidermal cells, (2) bulbous, lamelloid structures with external cytoplasmic projections, and (3) ciliated nerve endings with posterior epidermal tiers and ciliated nerve pits associated with apical papilla.     

STUDIES ON SMALL INTESTINAL CRYPT EPITHELIUM : I. The Fine Structure of the Crypt Epithelium of the Proximal Small Intestine of Fasting Humans

Small intestinal crypt epithelium obtained from normal fasting humans by peroral biopsy of the mucosa was studied with the electron microscope. Paneth cells were identified at the base of the crypts by their elaborate highly organized endoplasmic reticulum, large secretory granules, and small lysosome-like dense bodies within the cytoplasm. Undifferentiated cells were characterized by smaller cytoplasmic membrane-bounded granules which were presumed to be secretory in nature, a less elaborate endoplasmic reticulum, many unattached ribosomes and, in some cells, the presence of glycogen. Some undifferentiated cells at the base of the crypts contained lobulated nuclei and striking paranuclear accumulations of mitochondria. Membrane-bounded cytoplasmic fragments, probably originating from undifferentiated and Paneth cells, were frequently apparent within crypt lumina. Of the goblet cells, some were seen actively secreting mucus. In these, apical mucus appeared to exude into the crypt lumen between gaps in the microvilli. The membrane formerly surrounding the apical mucus appeared to fuse with and become part of the plasma membrane of the cell, suggesting a merocrine secretory mechanism. Enterochromaffin cells were identified by their location between the basal regions of other crypt cells and by their unique intracytoplasmic granules.     

The formation of multivesicular structures in the adipose cells of chick embryos

Observation of the cytogenesis of adipose tissue of the chick embryo revealed a quantity of multiversicular structures (MVs) which were found in the intercellular space. Some of them were attached to the adipocytes and others were independently located in the intercellular space. The origin of those MVs appeared to be part of the degenerating mitochondria. Centrally located vesicles and vacuoles in degenerating mitochondria formed a group of short tubules and vacuoles which protruded through the cytoplasmic membrane or bulged out at the edge of the cytoplasmic process. The MVs then spread over the cytoplasmic membrane and finally were discharged from the cell surface as in the manner of apocrine secretion. An invisible barrier between the mass of vesicles and the rest of the cytoplasmic structures appeared to segregate the extruding MVs from the intercellular components such as ribosomes, microtubules, and microfilaments.     

A light and electron microscopic study of the pineal gland of the ground squirrel, Citellus tridecemlineatus.

The pineal gland of the 13-lined ground squirrel (Citellus tridecemlineatus) has been examined at the light and electron microscopic level. This gland is composed of low-density parenchymal cells interspersed among which are occasional glial, vascular and neural elements. Punctuating the glandular parenchymal mass are prominent perivascular and intercellular spaces. The parenchymal cells possess numerous mitochondria and less prominent profiles of rough and smooth-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum. Golgi apparatus, microtubules and lipid droplets of varying size and electron density constitute regular cytoplasmic features, with dense-core vesicles being present occasionally. The parenchymal cells have numberous processes. One among these in each cell extends for several micra to terminate in a bulbous expansion containing both clear and dense-core vesicles and occasional electron-dense inclusions. These bulbous terminals are found within the perivascular and intercellular spaces where they course in close proximity to both other parenchymal elements and axon terminals. Glial cells and their processes invest the pineal periphery and incompletely separate the parenchymal cells.     

Ultrastructure of macrocellular (large cell) carcinomas of the lung

The electronmicroscopic investigation of five lung tumors histodiagnosed as macrocellular carcinomas showed the ultrastructural monomorphism of large, variedly shaped neoplastic cells, lack of intercellular junctions, voluminous nuclei with many indentations of nuclear membrane, dispersed euchromatin, large and multiple nucleoli, and nuclear bodies. A reduced number of cytoplasmic organelles was characteristic for these cells, represented mainly by mitochondria, rare rough endoplasmic reticulum, free ribosomes rare Golgi vesicles and flattened tubules, and a various amount of tonofilaments. These features characterized the poorly differentiated proliferation forming these tumors. The elements of differential diagnosis from other poorly differentiated lung tumors (epidermoid and cylindrocubic) are discussed, allowing the consideration of this proliferation type with repressed differentiation and maturation as a real one in the framework of lung carcinomas.     

LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF THE FUSION CELL IN ASTEROCOLAX GARDNERI SETCH. (RHODOPHYTA,CERAMIALES)12

The fusion cell in Asterocolax gardneri Setch, is a large, multinucleate, irregularly-shaped cell resulting from cytoplasmic fusions of haploid and diploid cells. Subsequent enlargement takes place by incorporating adjacent gonimoblast cells. The resultant cell consists of two parts—a central portion of isolated cytoplasm, surrounded by an electron dense cytoplasmic barrier, and the main component of the fusion cell cytoplasm surrounding the isolated cytoplasm. The fusion cell contains many nuclei, large quantities of floridean starch, endoplasmic reticulum, and vesicles, but few mitochondria, plastids and dictyosomes. The endoplasmic reticulum forms vesicles that apparently secrete large quantities of extracellular mucilage which surrounds the entire carposporophyte. The isolated cytoplasm also is multinucleate but lacks starch and a plasma membrane. Few plastids, ribosomes and mitochondria are found in this cytoplasm. However, numerous endoplasmic reticulum cisternae occur near the cytoplasmic barrier and they appear to secrete material for the barrier. In mature carposporophytes, all organelles in the isolated cytoplasm have degenerated.