[Intra- and extracellular lysosomes in myocytic reaction of the arterial wall].
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The electron microscope demonstration of reaction products of the acid phosphatase within matrix vesicles (=extracellular membrane-bound corpuscles) of the wall of hemodynamic or metabolic imbalanced arteries stimulated experiments about the activities of lysosomal enzymes in the wall of wrongly loaded arteries. In our case arteries without any hemodynamic function (="null function") were investigated 4, 5, 7, 13 and 14 days after applying a ligature. In relation to the nonligated testicular arteries of the other side the wall of theligated vessels show an increase of lysosomal glycosidases (beta-N-Acetyl-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase) about 40-70%. The significance of the extracellular lysosomes for transformations of the vessel wall under physiological and pathological conditions is discussed.
The cells of the connective tissues contain lysosomes with enzymes capable of degrading intercellular substances (collagen, elastin, proteoglycans) and release their enzymes in membrane-bound or in free form into their intercellular substance. In this way extracellularly located lysosomes (= matrix lysosomes) can be detected by morphological and enzymatic means as well as by their metal concentrating property. This function of such matrix-lysosomes is in connection with the two step-degradation of the connective tissue and is thought to be the main part for the fibrocytic fibrolysis, chondrocytic chondrolysis, osteocytic osteolysis and myocytic mediolyses in the vessel wall. The cells of the mesenchymal tissues thus control the turnover and transformation of their own ground substance. Inflammatory and immunologic processes are suggested to be superimposed on this lysosomal action. If the lysosomal enzyme system in the connective tissues and the vessel wall gets out of control, the consequences can be dangerous as e.g. in case of relapsing polychondritis and arterial aneurysms. In this enzyme system proteolytic activators as well as proteolytic decomposable inhibitors are present. The corresponding proteolytic processes are of lysosomal nature and are subordinated to other regulatory mechanisms.
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Electron microscopically smooth muscle cells could be detected in the walls of the terminal hepatic venules of the rat liver. These muscle cells are double layered in the following venous channels, the intercalated veins. It is supposed that these smooth muscle cells play an important role as outlet sphincters of the liver sinusoids. Furthermore, fenestrations could be found in the endothelial lining of terminal hepatic venules.
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