[Quantitative changes of zinc content in the hippocampal region after dithizone administration].
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The ontogenetic development of catecholamine (CA) and somatostatin containing nerve terminals in the rostral, central and caudal median eminence (ME) of the rat was investigated by combining fluorescence histochemistry and immunohistochemistry in the same tissue section. Somatostatin terminals were detected earlier in development than CA terminals and had already appeared in the lateral part of the external layer of the central ME by the 1st postnatal day. CA nerve terminals were first observed in the same region of the ME on the 7th postnatal day. At about this stage both types of terminals seemed to show early signs of a correlation in their distribution which became progressively closer as maturation proceeded. Their distribution reached a stable condition in density and pattern on the 21st postnatal day when the majority were found in the lateral part of the external layer of the central ME, in the basal part of the brain just dorsal to the tuberoinfundibular sulcus and in the upper and lower labia of the tuberoinfundibular stalk. They subsequently matured to the adult pattern of stabilized distribution and anatomical relationship. It was also established that on the 28th postnatal day the somatostatin immunoreactive terminals reached a greater concentration than at any other stage of development including that of the adult.
We investigated the intracellular transport of albumin in the livers of rats treated with colchicine using immunoperoxidase study as well as combined immunoelectron microscopy and autoradiography with [3H]-leucine. Immunoreaction of albumin was observed in all hepatocytes. Its subcellular location was in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and lysosomes. After the injection of [3H]-leucine through the portal vein, a combined technique revealed accumulated grains on the albumin-positive Golgi apparatus or the albumin-positive vesicles in the vicinity of the Golgi apparatus. These findings suggest that albumin transport from the Golgi apparatus to sinusoids is disturbed by colchicine. Enzyme histochemistry showed many acid phosphatase-positive lysosomes in hepatocytes of the liver treated with colchicine. Albumin retained in the vicinity of the Golgi apparatus may be digested by lysosomes. An in situ hybridization study with isotopes revealed the presence of silver grains for albumin mRNA in all hepatocytes of livers treated or untreated with colchicine; there was no significant difference in the number of silver grains in the two groups. Therefore, colchicine has very little effect on albumin synthesis in the liver.
The existence of the adrenergic terminals of the canine laryngeal glands has been revealed by electron microscopy and fluorescence histochemistry. Adrenergic fibres with fluorescent varicosities were observed around the base of th acini in the submucosa. In dogs treated with 5-OHDA, varicosities containing both small and large, dense-cored vesicles containing both small and large, dense-cored vesicles, believed to be adrenergic terminals, were found near blood vessels, gland cells and myoepithelial cells in the submucosal gland region. The role of these adrenergic terminals is briefly discussed.
The distribution of the Substance P (SP) immunoreactive nerve fibres in the canine larynx and laryngeal nerves was studied by PAP immunohistochemistry. Many individual SP immunoreactive nerve fibres with varicosities were observed within the epithelial layer and in the connective tissue below the epithelium of the laryngeal mucosa. Small numbers of SP immunoreactive nerve fibres were also found in the submucosal gland region and some of them appeared to terminate in glandular cells. These findings are consistent with the view that SP might be involved in the laryngeal sensory innervation system and the laryngeal glandular secretion. No SP immunoreactive nerve fibres were found in any intrinsic laryngeal muscles. The recurrent laryngeal nerve and the superior laryngeal nerve contained SP immunoreactive nerve fibres and were considered to lie in the pathway of the SP nerve fibres to the larynx.