Trypanosoma lewisi: electron microscopy of the infected spleen |
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Authors: | C L Greenblatt |
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Institution: | Department of Protozoology, the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem, Israel |
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Abstract: | The spleens of Lewis rats, both normal and infected with Trypanosoma lewisi were examined by electron microscopy. Special attention was directed to clusters of splenic cells which occur in the course of the infection. The reticular cells first showed alterations of their structure by the second day of infection, with considerable surface membrane activity. By the fourth day and thereafter various cells were found gathered around the reticular cells. These cell clusters mainly contained lymphocytes, plasma cells, and erythropoietic elements in many stages of differentiation. It was not unusual that several cell types were found adjacent to the same central reticular cell. These arrays, similar in geometry to the erythropoietic island of the bone marrow, became more predominantly “plasma cell” islands as the infection progressed. Parasites were recognizable within the reticular cells, and were noted to be in regions where the cellular membranes of adjacent cells demonstrated vesiculations resembling rhopheocytosis. A further observation was the pinching off of neighboring plasma cell cytoplasm into the reticular cells. |
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Keywords: | Electron microscopy Reticular cell Immune spleen cells Immune cell clusters Erythropoietic island Lymphomyeloid complex Erythroblast Blast cell Plasma cell Erythrophagocytosis Rhopheocytotic vesicles |
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