A post-embedding immunoelectron-microscopic demonstration of apolipoprotein-B-containing lipoprotein particles in hepatocytes of fetal rats |
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Authors: | U. Dürer H. Franke R. Dargel J. Ude |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Pathological Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Friedrich Schiller University, Löbderstrasse 3, DDR-6900 Jena, German Democratic Republic;(2) Department of Animal Physiology, Electron-Microscopic Laboratory, Section Biology, Friedrich Schiller University, Erbertstrasse 1, DDR-6900 Jena, German Democratic Republic |
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Abstract: | Summary We used the protein-A gold technique to demonstrate the presence of apolipoprotein-B in ultrathin sections of fetal rat liver tissue. It was possible to show for the first time that the electron-dense, osmiophilic particles with diameters of 20–20 nm located within the RER cisternae and Golgi complexes of fetal rat hepatocytes contain apolipoprotein-B components and therefore are lipoproteins. After specific labelling an accumulation of gold label was observed on the RER cisternae, Golgi cisternae and the Golgi-associated secretory vesicles of hepatocytes. The specifity of this labelling pattern was assessed by comparison with cytochemical controls. Our qualitative findings were confirmed by a quantitative analysis of the mean labelling intensity (mean number of gold particles per square micron of the surface area of a particular cellular compartment) on the RER, Golgi complexes, mitochondria, nuclei and the remaining cytoplasm of hepatocytes. It is concluded that the hepatocytes of fetal rats are capable of forming apolipoprotein-B-containing lipoprotein particles. With respect to the size-distribution pattern of the observed intrahepatic lipoprotein particles, we suggest that the hepatocytes of fetal rats produce lipoproteins of the low- and very low-density-lipoprotein type.Abbreviations GA Golgi complex - RER rough endoplasmic reticulum - M mitochondria - N nuclei - LP lipoprotein partieles - L lipid droplet - SV secretory vesicle - BCP blood cell precursor - dm dense intracisternal and intravesicular material - LDL low density lipoproteins - VLDL very low density lipoproteins |
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