Histology and histopathology Vol. 8, nº 4 (1993)
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- PublicationOpen AccessEffects of neonatal treatment with MSG (Monosodium glutamate) on hypothalamo- pituitary- thyroid axis in adult male rats(Murcia : F. Hernández, 1993) Miskowiak, B.; Partyka, M.Neonatal administration of MSG leads to a syndrome of endocrine dysfunction characterised by reduced growth, obesity and hypogonadism. The aim of the present investigation was to gain information on the structure and function of the pituitary-thyroid axis in MSG-treated rats. Neonatal Wistar rats received an S.C. MSG (4 mglg body weight) or hyperosmotic saline (controls) on days 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of life. Histological and morphometrical studies were carried out on the thyroids of rats during the 4th month of life. Plasma TSH, T3, and T4 were measured by RIA kits. MSG-treated rats showed stunted growth, obesity and decreased pituitary weight. MSG administration resulted in increases in thyroid weight, absolute volumes of epithelium, colloid and stroma, and blood T3 level while T4 level remained unchanged. In enlarged thyroid gland, percentage fractions occupied by epithelium, colloid and stroma were similar to those observed in control rats. The results obtained suggest that the rat hypothalamic centres involved in regulation of the pituitary-thyroid axis are slightly affected by neonatal MSG treatmen
- PublicationOpen AccessEffects of tamoxifen and CV 205502 on the morphology and the evolution of the noncancerous mouse mammary gland(Murcia : F. Hernández, 1993) Kotoula, Vassiliki; Karkavelas, G.; Economou, L.; Sionga, A.; Boutis, L.; Kerameos-Foroglou, Ch.Tamoxifen (TAM, 0.01 mglanirnal, three times a week) and the experimental prolactinlowering CV 205502 (CV, 1 pglanimal, daily) were administered prophylactically, alone or combined, to virgin C3HISy mice during the early period of promotion in this spontaneous mammary carcinogenesis system (end of 2nd- 5th month of age), in order to study their influence on the rnorphology and evolution of the noncancerous mammary gland during therapy and after treatment cessation. During TAM administration the epithelial cells of the growing part of the gland exhibited myoepithelial- and, late in the treatrnent period, apoptotic-like features instead of the secretory ones expected, accompanied by intense basement rnembrane alterations, thickening of the surrounding connective tissue and arrested adipocyte maturation. These effects reversed progressively after drug withdrawal. The epithelial alterations were more intense and longer lasting in the TAM+CV-group, while growth arrest of the glands was observed in both groups parallel to the degree and the duration of these morphological changes. In these groups, tumor incidence was diminished, as expected, but the tumors that developed late after treatment cessation were of low histological differentiation. The above morphological obsemations show that TAM inhibits noncancerous mammary gland growth during the reproductive period by altering stromal and epithelial differentiation, effects that reverse progressively after treatrnent discontinuation and are potentiated by a prolactin-lowering agent in this animal study.
- PublicationOpen Accesslmmunohistochemical characterization of transplantable rat squamous cell carcinoma (FF-6) in skin and thymus(Murcia : F. Hernández, 1993) Fujikura, Y.; Inoue, T.; Sawada, T.; Tokuda, N.; Fukumoto, T.FF-6 is a transplantable squamous cell carcinoma which originally arose in the facial skin of a DA rat. It was established after maintaining the tumor in the subcutaneous tissue or peritoneal cavity of DA rats conventionally for over 30 generations. When the soybean-sized original FF-6 tumor was transplanted subcutaneously, it became an oval, hard, whitish, solitary and thumb-head-sized nodule within one month. After intraperitoneal transplantation of FF-6, it formed many nodules ranging from miliary to thumb-head size, which adhered andlor metastasized to many abdominal organs. When FF-6, cut into small pieces, was injected into the lower lip, the tumor grew bigger in situ, and metastasized to regional lymph nodes. Histologically, FF-6 was characterized as a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, showing positive staining with anti-keratin, anti-laminin, anti-collagen type IV, antifibronectin and UB- 14 antibodies. This transplantable tumor may be useful for analyzing the mechanisms of proliferation and metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma in vivo, and the host defence mechanism in rats, as well as being a suitable model of human squamous cell carcinoma.
- PublicationOpen AccessLate events in the migrative behaviour of the retinal ganglion cells. A Golgi study in the chick retina(Murcia : F. Hernández, 1993) Genís-Gálvez, J. M.; Garcia-Lomas, V.; Espinar, A.; Dorado, M. E.; Prada, F. A.The final displacement of the prospective ganglion neurons toward the ganglion cell layer (GCL) has been analyzed in chicken embryos during days 8 and 9 of incubation with the help of the Golgi method and computer-assisted image processing. Our findings indicate that some ganglionar soma are still located in the inner nuclear layer (INL) while others pierce the inner plexiform layer (IPL), exhibiting morphological adaptation of their perikaryon. The changing morphology of these delayed retinal ganglion neuroblasts seems to be due to the late translocation of the cell perikaryon to the GCL. This late migrative displacement of the ganglionar population is discussed in relation to the presence of displaced ganglion cells of Dogiel.
- PublicationOpen AccessHistochemical analysis of carbohydrate moieties and sugar-specific acceptors in the kidneys of the laboratory mouse and the golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus)(Murcia : F. Hernández, 1993) Coppee, I.; Gabius, H.J.; Danguy, A.The aims of this work were to histochemically compare the pattern of lectin binding and endolectin expression in different portions of nephrons of two rodent species producing either normal hyperosmotic urine (the laboratory mouse) or highly concentrated urine (Acomys russatus, the golden spiny mouse). A panel of biotinylated lectins and neoglycoproteins and the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex technique were used on Bouin's fixed, paraffinembedded sections. Various segments of the uriniferous tubule in both species showed differential affinity for labelled lectins and neoglycoproteins. Significant differences were also evident between comparable tubular segments in laboratory and golden spiny mouse kidneys. Whether the histochemical expression of sugar moieties of glycoconjugates as well as endolectins, thus both sides of presumed protein-carbohydrate interactions, may be correlated to the various glycoproteins which would include constituents of the glycocalyx and domains of a variety of transport enzymes deserves further studies.