ELECTRON-OPAQUE, LIPID-CONTAINING BODIES IN MOUSE LIVER AT EARLY INTERVALS AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY AND SHAM OPERATION

The appearance and distribution of electron-opaque, lipid-containing bodies have been studied in liver of adult male mice of the C3H strain. The mice were either partially hepatectomized or sham-operated, and the liver was fixed in Veronal acetate-buffered 2 per cent osmium tetroxide at various postoperative intervals (10, 20, 40, 60, and 120 minutes). Normal, non-operated mice served as controls. As early as 10 minutes after both sham operation and partial hepatectomy, lipid-containing bodies have been observed, not only in the cytoplasm of hepatic parenchymal cells, but also in the space of Disse. At the very early postoperative intervals studied, minute lipid bodies are repeatedly found to be more numerous in the space of Disse than at later intervals. It is suggested that the lipid-containing bodies enter the parenchymal cell from the circulation. At the cell membrane, numerous invaginations, each containing a lipid body, have been observed; this suggests that the lipid bodies enter the hepatic parenchymal cells by the process of pinocytosis.The fact that only hepatic parenchymal cells contain the lipid bodies, whereas von Kupffer, endothelial lining, and Ito's fat-storing cells do not, may indicate a specific lipid mobilization response on the part of the cells of the hepatic parenchyma.     

AUTOSYNCHRONIZATION OF RAT LIVER CELLS WITH ENDOGENOUS CORTICOSTERONE AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY

After adrenalectomy in adult male rats ³H-TdR incorporation into the liver parenchymal cells is increased 4–8 times and the mitotic index rises from 0–31 % to 1–3%; this is inhibited by corticosterone. After hepatectomy the serum corticosterone level increases from 18 μg/100 ml to 57 μg/100 ml. The corticosterone binding capacity of the serum declines from 2–06 to 0–17. The activity of tyrosine transaminase doubles, whereas the incorporation of ³H-TdR into the liver cells is decreased by a factor of 5–7. Thereafter the binding capacity increases again and reaches, 24 hr after operation, a value of 3–82. The tyrosine transaminase activity and the serum corticosterone content return to normal. ³H-TdR incorporation, however, increases by a factor of 7-7 of the initial value. We concluded that in the first few hours after partial hepatectomy corticosterone blocks the liver cells in G₁ and an accumulation of the cells occurs at this cell cycle phase. Folio wing the binding of the corticosterone by serum proteins a little later the liver cells enter the S-phase synchronously.     

FINE STRUCTURE OF CELLS ISOLATED FROM ADULT MOUSE LIVER

Suspensions of isolated cells in various media were prepared from mouse liver which had been perfused via the portal vein with a buffered medium containing 0.40 M sucrose, and the cells were fixed with osmium tetroxide. Their fine structure was compared with that of cells from perfused and unperfused intact liver. Perfusion brought about some separation of the cells with little or no damage to cell membranes. When cells were dispersed in 0.40 M sucrose medium the plasma membranes partially broke down, and this disintegration was increased by transfer of the cells to media of lower osmolarity. This is presumed to account for the loss of permeability barriers which occurs in isolated liver cells. The mitochondria in cells of perfused liver and in isolated cells remained elongated, but the layers of many mitochondrial cristae became separated by clear spaces. When cells were transferred to a medium containing 0.20 M sucrose, the mitochondria swelled and became spherical, often with displacement of the swollen cristae to the periphery. In a medium containing 0.06 M sucrose and 0.08 M potassium chloride the outer chamber of many mitochondria became swollen with displacement of the mitochondrial body to one side to give a crescent-shaped appearance. These changes in mitochondrial morphology are discussed in relation to the metabolic activity of isolated liver cells.     

A NUCLEAR MEMBRANE CHANGE AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY

Partial hepatectomy (67 per cent extirpation) of the rat leads to a change in the membrane of liver nuclei (purified with citric acid) detectable as an increase in electrophoretic mobility. No change is detectable 2 hours after the operation, but between 2 and 6 hours about a 1.4-fold increase in mobility occurs after which the mobility becomes constant at the elevated level. Removal of only 10 per cent of the liver causes no detectable change in 6 hours. Bilateral adrenalectomy immediately before partial hepatectomy does not affect the development of the nuclear change. Actinomycin D and p-fluorophenylalanine, but not noradrenalin, ionizing radiation, or EDTA, suppress the increase in electrophoretic mobility. The level of actinomycin D required to block the nuclear membrane change is 6 times greater than that necessary to prevent the rate increase in hepatic RNA metabolism that follows removal of part of the liver. This discrepancy and the difference in the response to noradrenalin indicate that, at least initially, the nuclear membrane change and the change in the rate of RNA synthesis are independent processes. The inability of EDTA to block the nuclear membrane change shows that the Zn⁺⁺ requirement for DNA replication is not related to the events that lead to the alteration in the electrokinetic properties of liver nuclei.     

短间隔连续部分肝切除对大鼠生存和肝组织结构的影响

在部分肝切除（partial hepatectomy,PH）后的细胞激活（G0－G1）期（4h）、有丝分裂高峰期（36h）及以两者交叉方式进行连续部分肝切除（successive partial hepatectomy,SPH）,观察其对大鼠生存和肝组织结构的影响。结果表明,大鼠对短间隔（间隔4和／或36h）连续部分肝切除的耐受极限取决于各次切除的肝量和间隔时间两个因素;连续部分肝切除引起的肝组织结构紊乱程度与部分肝切除次数正相关;细胞核数、有丝分裂指数与短间隔连续部分肝切除次数和方式显现复杂的相关性。依SPH中大鼠成活率、肝组织结构变化、生理生化变化为依据,确立了4组（E、G、K和M组）适合研究肝再生分子机理的短间隔连续部分肝切除模型（short interval successive partial hepatectomy,SISPH）。     

大鼠再生肝刺激因子抗四氯化碳损伤的研究

我们以往的研究证明,大鼠再生肝具有抗四氯化碳损伤的能力。本工作进一步研究其机制,首先从部分（６８％）肝切除后不同的再生肝的取肝刺激因子,用＾３Ｈ胸腺嘧喧核苷测定ｒＨＳＳ的生物活性,结果表明部分切除肝后７２ｈ的ｒＨＳＳ活性较对照组约增加７．７倍。然后将ｒＨＳＳ注射给小鼠,观察其抗ＣＣｌ４损伤肝的效应,具体表现如下：ｒＨＳＳ能减少ＣＣｌ４中毒小鼠的死亡率和降低ＣＣｌ４所增高的血清谷丙转氨酶和谷草转氨酶     

FINE STRUCTURE OF DIFFERENTIATING MOUSE PANCREATIC EXOCRINE CELLS IN TRANSFILTER CULTURE

Fine structural observations have been made in the 11-day embryonic mouse of exocrine cells in pancreatic epithelium developing in tissue culture transfilter from salivary gland mesenchyme of the 13-day embryonic mouse. After 2 days in culture, the exocrine cells show increased cytoplasmic density, abundant ribosomes in aggregate or "rosette" form, and expanded profiles of rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum. After 3 and 4 days in culture, the cells exhibit continued expansion of the profiles of endoplasmic reticulum, increased amounts of Golgi membranes, and large areas of light density (prozymogen granules). After 5 days in culture, dense zymogen granules are present in the most highly differentiated cells. In addition, at the filter-epithelial surface, at 2 days, small fibers can be discerned which, after 4 days in culture, show obvious periodicity and are thought to be collagen. The significance of these changes, in relation to the mesenchymal effect, to the onset of specific synthesis and to the stabilization of differentiation is discussed.     

FINE STRUCTURAL LOCALIZATION OF CHOLESTEROL-1,2-3H IN DEGENERATING AND REGENERATING MOUSE SCIATIC NERVE

The localization of ³H-labeled cholesterol in nerves undergoing degeneration and regeneration was studied by radioautography at the electron microscope level. Two types of experiments were carried out: (a) Cholesterol-1,2-³H was injected intraperitoneally into suckling mice. 5 wk later, Wallerian degeneration was induced in the middle branch of the sciatic nerve, carefully preserving the collateral branches. The animals were then sacrificed at various times after the operation. During degeneration, radioactivity was found over myelin debris and fat droplets. In early stages of regeneration, radioactivity was found in myelin debris and regenerating myelin sheaths. Afterwards, radioactivity was found predominantly over the regenerated myelin sheaths. Radioactivity was also associated with the myelin sheaths of the unaltered fibers, (b) Wallerian degeneration was induced in the middle branch of the sciatic nerves of an adult mouse, preserving the collateral branches. Cholesterol-1,2-³H was injected 24 and 48 hr after the operation and the animal was sacrificed 6 wk later. Radioactivity was found in the myelin sheaths of the regenerated and unaltered fibers. The results from these experiments indicate that: (a) exogenous cholesterol incorporated into peripheral nerve during myelination remains within the nerve when it undergoes degeneration. Such cholesterol is kept in the myelin debris as an exchangeable pool from which it is reutilized for the formation of the newly regenerating fibers, especially myelin. (b) exogenous cholesterol incorporated into the nerves at the time that degeneration is beginning is also used in the formation of new myelin sheaths during regeneration, (c) mature myelin maintains its ability to incorporate cholesterol.     

THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE CELLS IN MOUSE SARCOMA 37 ASCITIC FLUIDS

The tumour cells and the reaction cells in Sarcoma 37 ascitic fluids have been studied in thin sections with the electron microscope. The reaction cells were either leucocytes or much larger acidophilic peritoneal cells of the same dimensions as the tumour cells; the peritoneal cells formed as much as 20 per cent of the large cell population. The fine structure of the cells is described and some new observations recorded. It has been found that the cell membrane of eosinophil granulocytes has a laminated composition and the characteristic granules of these cells a double limiting membrane. The pores in the double nuclear membrane of the peritoneal cells have been observed to have a fine line running across them. In the tumour cells, a rounded granular body with a central dense area has been found in the region of the centrosome; these cells were also seen to contain rows of parallel smooth surfaced cisternae lying 150 mµ apart similar to those hitherto only observed in spermatids. There was a feltwork of fine filaments in the cytoplasm of the centrosome region of the tumour cells. The cytoplasmic fine structure underlying the basophilia of the tumour cells and the acidophilia of the peritoneal cells is compared and discussed.     

THE KINETICS OF CELLULAR PROLIFERATION IN REGENERATING LIVER

The study concerns the kinetics of cellular proliferation in the different cell populations of the normal and regenerating rat liver. A detailed analysis is presented, which includes techniques of in vivo labeling of DNA with tritiated thymidine and high-resolution radioautography, of the temporal and spatial patterns of DNA synthesis and cell division in the parenchymal cells, littoral cells, bile duct epithelium, and other cellular components in the liver during the first 64 hr of regeneration after partial hepatectomy. The analysis of cell population kinetics indicates that (a) the rate of entry of parenchymal cells into synthesis, after an initial burst of proliferative activity, was an orderly progression at 3–4%/hr; (b) most cells divided once and a few twice, a large proportion of the cell deficit being replaced by 72 hr after the onset of proliferation; (c) T_s was ~8.0 hr; T_gg2+m/2, 3.0 hr; and M, ~1.0 hr. Littoral cell proliferation began about 24 hr after the onset of parenchymal cell proliferation; the rate of entry of littoral cells into synthesis was greater than 4%/hr. Interlobular bile duct cell proliferation lagged well behind the parenchymal and littoral cell populations both in time and extent of proliferation.     

实验性肝硬化部分肝切除后肝组织学及组织化学变化的研究

四氯化碳所致肝硬化的大白鼠,进行７０％和３０％肝脏切除,于术后４８小时、１周、２周分别取剩余肝脏观察肝的组织化学变化,包括ＤＮＡ（脱氧核糖核酸）,ｈｉｓｔｏｎｅ（组蛋白）、ＲＮＡ（核糖核酸）、ＳＤＨ（琥珀酸脱氢酶）、Ｇ－６－Ｐａｓｅ（葡萄糖－６－磷酸酶）、Ｍｇ－ＡＴＰａｓｅ（镁激活三磷酸腺苷酶）、ＣｈＥ（胆碱酯酶）、ＡＫＰ（碱性磷酸酶）、ＡＣＰ（酸性磷酸酶）,ＰＡＳ（糖原）反应。其中肝硬化切除３０％肝脏的动物,术后４８小时再生肝细胞活跃,肝脏ＤＮＡ、ｈｉｓｔｏｎｅ、ＳＤＨ、Ｇ－６－ｐａｓｅ、ＡＴＰａｓｅ活性及反应明显增高;而ＣｈＥ活性及ＰＡＳ反应等显著减弱。     

大鼠部分肝切后血清对体外培养肝细胞的刺激作用

目的探讨大鼠部分肝切后血清对体外培养肝细胞生长状况的影响。方法对Sprague-Dawley大鼠进行肝部分切除,分别在术后第12、24、36h于心腔内穿刺取血,制备刺激血清。采用酶消化法分离获取Sprague-Dawley乳鼠的肝细胞,在加有10％上述刺激血清的DMEM培养基中进行肝细胞体外培养。倒置显微镜下观察培养细胞的生长状态,采用免疫细胞化学方法检测肝细胞中白蛋白和纤维蛋白原的表达情况。结果发现在肝切后血清刺激作用下,原代培养的肝细胞生长加快,存活时间增长。细胞传代培养后仍用制备血清加以刺激,可产生胶原样细胞外基质,并且在基质上粘附的肝细胞呈现克隆样生长状态,其胞浆内白蛋白和纤维蛋白原均呈阳性表达。结论研究初步表明,体外培养乳鼠肝细胞时加入大鼠部分肝切后血清,可以有效刺激细胞的生长,促进细胞外基质的产生,从而利于肝细胞在体外较长时间存活、增殖和功能保持,同时此种肝细胞体外培养方式还为肝脏细胞生物学研究增添了新的实验途径。     

A STUDY OF THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE EPIDERMIS OF RANA PIPIENS

The epidermis of adult Rana pipiens has been studied by electron microscopy and histological and histochemical methods. It was found that the epidermis is engaged in the production of both keratin and mucus. The basal cells are mainly filled with tonofilaments, whereas the cells located in the mid-portion of the epidermis contain both tonofilaments and mucous granules. Golgi vesicles and endoplasmic reticulum are found in relative abundance in the mucus-producing cells and seem to be involved in the production of mucous granules. The mucus seen was partly retained within the cells and partly secreted into the intercellular spaces. The outermost keratinized cells contain mainly filaments and a few remnants of cell constituents.     

AN AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE 3H-URIDINE AND 3H-THYMIDINE INCORPORATION IN THE REGENERATING MOUSE LIVER

An autoradiographic study was made of the ³H-uridine incorporation into RNA and DNA in nucleus and cytoplasm of parenchymal cells in the regenerating liver of the mouse after a pulse time of 2 hr. After a decreased uptake of precursor into the parenchymal nucleus during the first 6 hr compared with the normal value, incorporation increased and was maximal at 36 hr; normal values were restored at 72 hr. The cytoplasmic labelling, after an initial small decrease, reached a maximum at 12 hr; this changed to normal 48 hr after hepatectomy. RNase-digestion of the liver sections left a small incorporation in both nucleus and cytoplasm: presumably DNA. This incorporation is maximal at 12 hr over the nucleus and at 24 hr over the cytoplasm. After a 2 hr pulse of ³H-thymidine, there was a marked uptake of the precursor into DNA about 24 hr after hepatectomy. This was maximal at 48 hr and reached normal values at 72 hr. A small amount of incorporation of ³H-thymidine into DNA was seen immediately after the operation, and this population of weakly labelled nuclei was still rather large 72 hr later.     

钐在小鼠肝脏细胞中的动态观察

本实验给小鼠一次静脉注射氯化钐(70mg/kg体重)后15min至48h中的不同间期,应用电镜与X射线微区分析术对钐在肝脏枯否细胞与肝细胞中的运转进行了动态追踪。于15min 至2 h,两种细胞均以胞吞方式摄入含钐微粒,在胞质中形成吞噬体。在吞噬体中,微粒群处于由稀疏至密集的浓缩过程。小吞噬体亦互相融合。这种胞吞作用于枯否细胞极为活跃。于4—24 h,很多枯否细胞胞质充满吞噬体,细胞已经或趋于变性、崩解。肝细胞内的吞噬体则汇集于胆小管周围。于胆小管腔中可见到高电子密度微粒群,表明体内钐可经胆汁途径排出。于48 h,两种肝脏细胞巾仍见钐吞噬体沉积。