环状片层

环状片层,一种新的膜性细胞器,常见于分裂旺盛、分化迅速的细胞中。胞质、胞核中均有分布。其来源和分布与细胞核膜、内质网、纤维颗粒体等细胞器相关,推测AL在细胞发育分化、细胞分裂和细胞内各种细胞器的相互协调中起一定的作用。     

细鳞鱼卵子发生过程中细胞器的形态变化与作用

通过组织学方法和透射电镜技术对细鳞鱼(Brachymystax lenok)卵子发生过程中细胞器的变化与作用进行了研究.结果表明,从刚分化的卵原细胞至成熟卵母细胞时期(Ⅰ～Ⅴ时相)胞质内均能观察到线粒体,其形态最初为圆形,随着其大量增殖,形态变为棒状、弯曲状或长形(Ⅱ时相),并导致线粒体簇形成,其嵴也由单个变为多个,电子密度呈由低到高的规律变化;但到Ⅲ时相末期线粒体又退化为圆形,个别线粒体还通过对分或牙分进行裂变,线粒体嵴被不断释放,形成空泡,其基质电子密度呈降低的规律变化;在此过程中线粒体主要参与各种囊泡的形成,为后期卵黄前体物质进入、积累创造条件.在Ⅱ时相卵母细胞早期的细胞核附近开始出现内质网和高尔基体,但数量少,结构简单,随着它们的大量增殖(Ⅲ～Ⅳ时相),这两种细胞器将对卵黄物质的合成与加工起到关键作用.内质网主要呈弓形,少数呈圆形或杯形,早期与高尔基体相伴出现,但随着内质网大量增殖,其合成功能也随之增强.早期高尔基体也呈弓形,但随着其高度发育,几个分散的高尔基体聚集形成高度发育的高尔基体复合体,其加工与修饰功能也不断增强,同时其周围伴有大量潴泡或电子密度不同的囊泡体(多层结构)出现,且这些多泡体常常与环形片层(annulate lamellae,AL)一同出现.AL与核膜结构相似,早期呈弧形排列,本研究推测环形片层起源于核膜,其主要作用可能是膜的储藏地.     

管氏肿腿蜂毒液器官超微结构观察

应用透射电镜技术,观察了管氏肿腿蜂Scleroderma guani毒液器官的超微结构.毒腺由基膜层、分泌细胞层、导管细胞层和内膜层构成,分泌细胞内含内质网、末端附器、分泌囊泡、分泌颗粒、液泡等细胞器,其内合成的毒液由末端附器输送至毒腺的腔体.毒囊由肌肉鞘层、上皮细胞层和内膜层组成,肌肉鞘内的肌纤丝规则排列不交错,上皮细胞层内细胞器稀少,内膜层呈波浪状均匀加厚.     

不同钙离子浓度对日本沼虾感光器细胞超微结构的影响

为了进一步研究细胞外钙离子浓度变化对甲壳动物感光细胞超微结构的影响,应用透射电子显微镜显示了日本沼虾感光细胞,在暗适应时高钙离子浓度中温育的感光器细胞的感杆束直径下降,微绒毛排列零乱;多囊体、板膜体数量增加;色素颗粒散布在细胞质中,呈现出光适应的结构特征。而温育在低钙离子溶液和生理溶液中的感光器细胞结构相同,呈现出暗适应的结构特征。另外,细胞器中储存的钙离子也受细胞外钙离子浓度的影响,在高钙离子溶液中温育后细胞器储存的钙离子量增加,膜下储泡囊、多囊体、线粒体、色素颗粒等细胞器中的焦锑酸钙结晶颗粒比温育在低钙溶液中的细胞明显增多。结果显示,细胞外钙离子浓度变化引起细胞内钙离子浓度变化,从而影响感光器细胞的结构而影响其生理功能。     

牛体外受精的程序及超微结构研究

牛体外成熟卵母细胞体外受精后３小时精子入卵,８小时原核形成,２４小时的核多到卵中央。精子发生顶体反应的部位主要在透明表面,方式是顶体外膜自身囊经,发生顶体反应的粗子可斜向或垂直穿过透明带。卵丘细胞可吞噬大量精子,在阻多精受精中发挥重要作用。高尔基得合体,线料体、环状片层和滑面内质网等在原核周围形成细胞器集团。牛体外受精卵的雌雄原结合比体内受精的要延迟,胞吐到卵周隙中的皮质颗粒内容物扩散不完全。     

不同发育时期哲罗鱼卵黄的超微结构

应用透射电镜观察了不同发育时期哲罗鱼(Hucho taimen)卵黄的超微结构.根据哲罗鱼卵黄物质在卵母细胞中的加工合成、积累以及卵母细胞中参与卵黄颗粒形成的细胞器的变化,可将该鱼卵黄发生分为4个特征时期,即卵黄发生前期、卵黄泡期、卵黄积累期和卵黄积累完成期.卵黄发生前期是指卵母细胞发育过程中的卵黄物质开始积累前的时期,此时期核仁不断分裂,出现线粒体云和早期的滤泡细胞层、基层和鞘细胞层;卵黄泡期特点主要是细胞器不断变化产生卵黄泡和皮层泡;卵黄积累期的滤泡膜由内向外依次为放射带、颗粒细胞层、基层和鞘细胞层,此时外源性卵黄前体物质不断经过血液汇集于鞘细胞层,后经微胞饮作用穿过胶原纤维组成的基层,经过多泡体作用转运至颗粒细胞内,在细胞内经过加工和修饰形成小的卵黄蛋白颗粒,卵黄蛋白颗粒经微胞饮穿过放射带进入卵母细胞边缘形成的空泡中,不断积累形成卵黄球;进入卵黄积累完成期,卵黄球体积变大,向细胞中心聚集,填满大部分卵母细胞,卵黄积累完毕.     

毛竹茎秆纤维发育过程的超微结构观察

利用透射和扫描电镜观察了毛竹(Phyllostachys edulis(Carr.)H.De Lehaie)茎秆纤维发育过程中的超微结构变化.在纤维细胞初生壁形成期,细胞质中线粒体、内质网、高尔基体等细胞器数量有明显的增加,出现大量的由内质网与高尔基体分泌形成的运输小泡,周质微管平行分布于质膜内侧,出现环状片层结构,并在细胞壁与质膜之间出现壁旁体结构.随着次生壁的逐渐形成,细胞质中细胞器逐渐地解体并出现多泡小体;纤维细胞核出现染色质凝聚并边缘化,但在8年生的纤维中可以持续存在;在纤维次生壁形成的整个阶段都存在与周围细胞相联系的胞间连丝和运输小泡;次生壁在前4年加厚明显,以后加厚程度减缓,但可以持续很长一段时间,并随着加厚出现宽窄交替的多层结构.结果表明,线粒体、内质网、高尔基体和壁旁体等细胞器与周质微管一起参与了初生壁和次生壁早期的形成;纤维细胞次生壁的形成过程就是一个漫长的程序性细胞死亡(PCD),而PCD的产物与胞间连丝一起参与了次生壁的形成与加厚;染色质凝聚并边缘化的细胞核与胞间连丝的持续存在,证明毛竹茎秆纤维细胞是一种典型的长寿细胞.     

罗氏沼虾卵母细胞细胞器与卵黄发生的关系

作者研究了罗氏沼虾卵母细胞细胞器与卵黄发生的关系。细胞核物质通过核孔与细胞质进行物质交换,由核仁而来的核糖体前体物在细胞质中形成大量的核糖体。一部分核糖体附着在内质网囊泡的膜上,形成粗糙型内质网。粗糙型内质同囊泡具有合成和运输卵黄物质的功能。一部分核糖体是游离的,它们可在细胞质中合成致密蛋白质小颗粒,随后这些颗粒逐渐聚集融合成致密的卵黄粒。溶酶体可吞噬这些由游离核糖体形成的蛋白质颗粒团或其它膜状物,并将它们消化、融合,从而形成大的卵黄粒。部分线粒体参与了卵黄粒的合成并最终演变成卵黄体。微丝也参与了卵黄粒的形成。       

知母绒毡层和乌氏体细微结构的研究

从个体发育来看,知母绒毡层具有3个明显的特点;（1）在小孢子母细胞阶段,绒毡层细胞中有丰富的细胞器,如粗糙内质网,脂体,造粉体和小泡等,粗糙内质网－脂体－小泡常常联系在一起,形成细胞器复合体。（2）在单核花粉阶段,绒毡层细胞质中出现大量小泡,它们可以融合成小泡,而且在小泡或大泡中开始沉积与脂体电子密度相似的亲锇物质,这些物质或者充满整个小泡,或者沉积在小泡周缘,此刻,也是乌氏体形成并达到高峰的阶段。（3）在成熟花粉阶段,绒毯层细胞几乎被具膜束缚的小型脂粒和巨型脂体所占据,这些亲锇物质是质体起源的,也许它们是花粉鞘的先质。     

蓖麻蚕蛹脏器脂肪体的细胞超微构造

本文用电子显微镜和光学显微镜观察蓖麻蚕(Philosamia cymthia)蛹脏器脂肪体的细胞构造特征。脂肪细胞在整个蛹期含有大量的脂肪滴和蛋白质颗粒,但只在蛹前期含有较多的糖原颗粒及相当数量的线粒体与粗面内质网,并有多泡体的形成。在蛹中期脂肪细胞内的自噬体明显增多,内质网消失。无脑蛹的脂肪细胞近似蛹后期脂肪细胞的构造。     

Changes in retinal fine structure induced in the crab Libinia by light and dark adaptation

Summary The cytological influence of light and dark adaptation (LA and DA) on the retinular cells of the spider crab Libinia emarginata has been studied by light and electron microscopy in four adaptive states: 17 hours darkness, 5 hours darkness, 5 hours diffuse light and 17 hours diffuse light. The rhabdom's fine structure is typical of decapods but its dual overall form and position mingle certain features of both apposition and superposition compound eye types. Distal and proximal retinal pigments both showed adaptive migration, but the distal pigment cells moved over a restricted range, and DA separated the retinular cell pigment granules into two groups, perinuclear and basilar.In the rhabdom no changes in its position, dimensions or microvillus fine structure were observed with LA or DA. But at the base of the rhabdom microvilli the rate of pinocytosis was strongly affected by the eye's adaptive state, being lowest after 17 hours DA and greatest after 17 hours LA; the wall of the 0.1 microvesicles so formed, looked like the membrane of the rhabdom microvillus and they were the same size as the vesicles in multivesicular bodies and in vesicular lamellar bodies.Three categories of complex cytoplasmic particles about 1 in diameter (multivesicular bodies, vesicular lamellar bodies and purely lamellar bodies) were all increased in number by decreased DA and by increased LA; similar quantitative effects occurred in the endoplasmic reticulum and in the ribosomes.The pinocytotic vesicles and the complex cytoplasmic bodies may represent part of an intracellular system to dispose of rhabdom metabolites whose production was initiated or increased by light absorption.Cytoplasmic and perirhabdomal vacuoles mainly distal in location, were also affected by light, but inversely; their maximal extent occurred after 17 hours DA; less DA or any LA significantly decreased their presence and aggregation.The data reported are of interest not only because they correlate retinal fine structure with the metabolism of vision but also because they provide a new and specific tool for distinguishing active from inactive neurosensory cells in the optic pathway.This research was initiated with the aid of U.S. Public Health Service Grant NB-03076 and has been continued with the support of U.S. Air Force Grant AFOSR-1064. The authors wish to thank Dr. Joseph G. Gall and Dr. William R. Adams for generously sharing their electron microscopic facilities; they are also grateful to Mrs. Mabelita Campbell for her collaboration on the light microscopy.     

The fine structure of the lateral ocellus of the dobsonfly larva

The lateral ocelli of the dobsonfly (Protohermes grandis, Neuroptera) larva have been examined with light and electron microscopy. The larva has six ocelli on both sides of the head, each containing a single corneal lens. A conical crystalline body, of some 10–20 cells is situated immediately posterior to the lens. From 100 to 300 elongated retinular cells are arranged perpendicular to the crystalline body except at the innermost surface of the lens, where they are absent. The distal process of each retinular cell is enclosed by a tube-like rhabdom formed by the close association of microvilli from the same and adjacent distal processes. The distal process contains many mitochondria, multivesicular bodies, microtubles and pigment granules. In the dark-adapted ocellus the pigment granules are concentrated near the nucleus which lies under the rhabdomic layer. The granules diffuse toward the rhabdomic microvilli during light adaptation. Each retinular cell has a single axon, which extends from the ocellus as an ocellar nerve fiber into the optic lobe, where it frequently synapses upon second order neurons. In addition to these afferent synapses, there are two other synaptic combinations: (1) a feedback synapse from a second order neuron to a retinular axon, and (2) a synapse between second order neurons. These results suggest that photic signals reach the more proximal part of the brain via second order neurons after some degree of integration in the optic lobe.     

The effect of light-dark adaptation on the ultrastructure ofLimulus lateral eye retinular cells

Summary The fine structure of retinular cells within lateral eyes ofLimulus polyphemus which had been dark or light adapted for 12 h in vivo was studied via electron microscopy. The ommatidium to ommatidium and retinular cell to retinular cell variability observed in light microscope studies was confirmed. The rhabdomeric microvilli were longer and narrower, the area of contiguous microvillar membranes greater, the endoplasmic reticulum less abundant and the mitochondrial granules (? calcium containing) more numerous in well dark adapted than in well light adapted retinular cells (Figs. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8) and membrane whorls or vacuoles were present in the peripheral cytoplasm of very well light adapted retinular cells (Fig. 6). Phagocytotic vesicles, multivesicular bodies and lysosomes were present in the interrhabdomeral cytoplasm of partially light adapted retinular cells (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 10). The number of retinular cell microvilli in contact with the eccentric cell dendrite was smaller in very well light adapted than in well dark adapted ommatidia (Fig. 9). The possible functional significance of these light-dependent structural changes is discussed.This investigation was supported in part by Grant 2 RO1 EY 00236 National Eye Institute, National Institutes of HealthMember of the SFB 160 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

钙离子浓度对暗适应时的中华绒螯蟹光感受器超微结构的影响

用透射电镜研究了暗适应时中华绒螯蟹的光感受器超微结构与外界钙离子浓度的关系,结果显示出与培育在生理溶液中的光感受器相比,细胞外钙离子浓度升高,使得感杆束的直径急剧缩小,感杆束周围胞质增厚,胞饮泡增加,膜下猪泡囊极度减小。胞质中多囊体的数量和直径减小,而板模体和溶酶体的数量增加,同时细胞内的色素颗粒增多。分布在小网膜细胞的远端。细胞的结构表现为类似光适应状态,与之相反,细胞外钙离子浓度降低时小眼的感     

Morphology of the compound eye of the giant deep-sea isopod Bathynomus giganteus

The structural organization of the compound eye of the largest known isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, is described from four specimens maintained in the laboratory for as long as two months. Living specimens have not previously been available for study. The two triangular compound eyes measure about 18 mm on the dorsal edge and are separated by an interocular distance of 25 mm. They face forward and slightly downward and may have significant overlap in visual fields. Each eye contains about 3,500 ommatidia in animals of body lengths from 22.5 cm to 37.5 cm. The packing of ommatidia is not uniform across the retina, but is nearly hexagonal in the dorsal central region and nearly square in the ventral and lateral periphery. The dioptric elements in each ommatidium consist of a laminar cornea, which is flat externally and convex internally, and a bipartite crystalline cone. Sometimes seven and sometimes eight retinular cells closely appose the proximal tip of the cone and bear the microvilli of the rhabdom. Proximal to the rhabdom the retinular cells form thin pillars near the periphery of the ommatidium, and the central portion along the optic axis at this level is occupied by interstitial cells that contain massive arrays of clear vesicles thought to serve as reflective elements. The arhabdomeral segments of the retinular cells and the interstitial cells rest on a basement membrane. Within each ommatidium the basement membrane has two extensions with cylindrical cores and thin sheets of dense material and collagen-like filaments. These sheets occupy spaces between adjacent interstitial cells up to the level of the rhabdomeral segments of the retinular cells. Arrays of pigment cells with relatively weak light-screening properties separate adjacent ommatidia. Animals were fixed both in light within a week of being brought from depth into daylight, and after 2 months of maintenance in constant darkness following such daylight exposure. In both cases, microvilli of the rhabdom were severely disrupted and the retinular cytoplasm contained numerous multivesicular bodies. Exposure to natural daylight appears to cause irreversible structural damage to the photoreceptors of these animals.     

CELL JUNCTIONS IN OMMATIDIA OF LIMULUS

The intercellular relationships in the ommatidia of the lateral eye of Limulus have been investigated. The distal process of the eccentric cell gives origin to microvilli which interdigitate with the microvilli of the retinular cells. Therefore, both types of visual cells contribute to form the rhabdom and may have an analogous photoreceptor function. Quintuple-layered junctions are found within the rhabdom at the lines of demarcation between adjoining microvilli, whether the microvilli originate from a single retinular cell, from two adjacent retinular cells, or from a retinular cell and the eccentric cell. Furthermore, quintuple-layered junctions between the eccentric cell and the tips of the microvilli of the retinular cells occur at the boundary between the distal process and the rhabdom. These findings are interpreted to indicate that the rhabdom provides an extensive electrotonic junction relating retinular cells to one another and to the eccentric cell. Quintuple-layered junctions between glial and visual cells, as well as other structural features of the ommatidial cells, are also described.     

Localization of the violet and yellow receptor cells in the crayfish retinula

Cellular identification of color receptors in crayfish compound eyes has been made by selective adaptation at 450 nm and 570 nm, wavelengths near the λ_max''s of the two retinular cell classes previously demonstrated. By utilizing earlier evidence, the concentration of lysosome-related bodies (LRB) was used to measure relative light adaptation and thus wavelength sensitivity in 665 retinular cells from six eyes. The observed particle distributions demonstrate the following. Both violet and yellow receptors occur ordinarily in each retinula. Of the seven regular retinular cells two (R₃ and R₄ using Eguchi''s numbering [1965]) have mean sensitivities significantly greater to violet and less to yellow than the other five. The latter apparently comprise "pure" yellow receptors (R₁ and R₇) and mixed yellow and violet receptors (R₂, R₅, and R₆). Explanations of such ambiguity requiring two visual pigments in single retinular cells or intercellular coupling of adjacent neuroreceptors are apparently precluded by previous evidence. Present data imply alternatively some positional variability in the violet pair''s location in individual retinulas. Thus R₃ and R₄ are predominantly the violet receptors but in some retinulas R₂ and R₃ or R₄ and R₅ (or rarely some other cell pairs) may be. The retinal distribution of such variations has yet to be determined. In agreement with intracellular recordings the blue and yellow cells here identified belong to both the vertical and horizontal e-vector sensitive channels.     

Fine structure of the dorsal ocellus of the worker honeybee

The three dorsal ocelli of worker honeybees have been studied by light and electron microscopy. Each ocellus has a single flattened spheroidal lens and about 800 elongated retinular cells. Retinular cells are paired and form a two-part plate-like rhabdom between their distal processes. Each rhabdomere comprises parallel microvilli projecting laterally from the apposed retinular cells. Primary receptor cell axons synapse within the ocellus with ocellar nerve fibers of two different calibers. Each ocellus has eight thick fibers ca 10 m?m in diameter and several thinner ones less than 3 m?m in diameter. Fine structural evidence suggests that retinular axons end presynaptically on both types of ocellar nerve fibers. Since all retinular cells apparently synapse repeatedly with the thick fibers this involves a convergence of about 100:1. Thick fibers always terminate postsynaptically within the ocellus while thin fibers terminate presynaptically on other thin fibers, thick fibers or retinular axons. Structural evidence for synaptic polarization indicates that retinular cells and thick fibers are afferent, thin fibers efferent. Thus complex processing of the ocellar visual input can occur before the secondary neurons of the three ocelli converge to form the single short ocellar nerve which runs to the posterior forebrain.     

Ultrastructural study of the naupliar eye of the ostracodeVargula graminicola (Crustacea,Ostracoda)

Summary Ostracodes, like other crustaceans, have a simple naupliar eye that is built upon a theme of three eye cups surrounded by a layer of screening pigments. The single naupliar eye of the ostracodeVargula graminicola is situated medially on the dorsal-anterior side of the body and has three fused eye cups, two dorso-lateral and one ventral. Each eye cup has the following components: (1) pigment cells between the eye cups, (2) tapetal cells, (3) retinular cells with (4) microvillar rhabdomeres, and (5) axons extending into the protocerebrum. Typically two retinular cells contribute lateral microvilli to each rhabdom. The two dorso-lateral eye cups have about 40 retinular cells (20 rhabdoms) and the ventral eye cup has about 30 retinular cells (15 rhabdoms). Typical of myodocopid naupliar eyes (as reported from light microscopic studies), no lens cells or cuticular lenses were observed. The presence of tapetal cells identifies theVargula eye as a maxillopod-ostracode type crustacean naupliar eye. It is unlikely that the naupliar eye ofV. graminicola functions in image formation, rather it probably functions in the mediation of simple taxis towards and away from light.     

Cytoskeleton of retinular cells from the stomatopod,Gonodactylus oerstedii: possible roles in pigment granule migration

Retinular cells of the compound eyes of stomatopods (mantis shrimps) contain screening pigment granules that migrate radially in response to light. To clarify the role of the cytoskeleton in these movements, we have performed light microscopy and ultrastructural analyses of cytoskeletal organelles in retinular cells. Rhodamine phalloidin staining indicates that filamentous actin is a component of microvillar rhabdomeres and zonula adherens between retinular cells. Ultrastructural studies reveal three populations of microtubules in retinular cells that differ in their orientations and labilities to fixation. Two of these populations are oriented longitudinally in cells: the soma microtubules, found primarily in a column in the cell soma, and the more labile palisade microtubules, which extend alongside the palisade vacuole near the rhabdomere. The third, most labile microtubule population, and filaments 9–30 nm in diameter, are oriented radially in retinular cells, some within cytoplasmic bridges that span the palisade. The radial microtubules and filaments are appropriately oriented for participating in pigment granule migration. Determination of microtubule polarities in retinular cells by decoration with endogenous tubulin indicates that palisade and soma microtubules contain subpopulations having opposite polarity orientations, as has been observed in neuronal dendrites. In contrast, neighboring pigment cells contain microtubules uniformly oriented with minus ends towards the nucleus, as has been observed in most cell types studied.