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  • 1
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Journal of comparative physiology 169 (1991), S. 39-50 
    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Schlagwort(e): Photoreception ; Retinally degenerate ; Mouse ; Circadian ; Rods ; Cones ; 11-cis retinaldehyde ; Immunocytochemistry ; HPLC
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary We have examined the effects of light on circadian locomotor rhythms in retinally degenerate mice (C57BL/6J mice homozygous for the rd allele: rd/rd). The sensitivity of circadian photoreception in these mice was determined by varying the irradiance of a 15 min light pulse (515 nm) given at circadian time 16 and meauring the magnitude of the phase shift of the locomotor rhythm. Experiments were performed on animals 80 days of age. Despite the loss of visual photoreceptors in the rd/rd retina, animals showed circadian responses to light that were indistinguishable from mice with normal retinas (rd/+ and +/+). While no photoreceptor outersegments were identified in the retina of rd/rd animals (80–100 days of age), we did identify a small number of perikarya that were immunoreactive for cone opsins, and even fewer cells that contained rod opsin. Using HPLC, we demonstrated the presence and photoisomerization of the rhodopsin chromophore 11-cis retinaldehyde. The rd/rd retinas contained about 2% of 11-cis retinaldehyde found in +/+ retinas. We have yet to determine whether the opsin immunoreactive perikarya or some other unidentified cell type mediate circadian light detection in the rd/rd retina.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Schlagwort(e): Aplysia ; Motoneurons ; Immunocytochemistry ; Small cardioactive peptides ; Facilitation ; Depression ; Buccal ; Feeding
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary We used physiological recordings, intracellular dye injections and immunocytochemistry to further identify and characterize neurons in the buccal ganglia of Aplysia calif ornica expressing Small Cardioactive Peptide-like immunoreactivity (SCP-LI). Neurons were identified based upon soma size and position, input from premotor cells B4 and B5, axonal projections, muscle innervation patterns, and neuromuscular synaptic properties. SCP-LI was observed in several large ventral neurons including B6, B7, B9, B10, and B11, groups of s1 and s2 cluster cells, at least one cell located at a branch point of buccal nerve n2, and the previously characterized neurons B1, B2 and B15. B6, B7, B9, B10 and B11 are motoneurons to intrinsic muscles of the buccal mass, each displaying a unique innervation pattern and neuromuscular plasticity. Combined, these motoneurons innervate all major intrinsic buccal muscles (I1/I3, I2, I4, I5, I6). Correspondingly, SCP-LI processes were observed on all of these muscles. Innervation of multiple nonhomologous buccal muscles by individual motoneurons having extremely plastic neuromuscular synapses, represents a unique form of neuromuscular organization which is prevalent in this system. Our results show numerous SCPergic buccal motoneurons with widespread ganglionic processes and buccal muscle innervation, and support extensive use of SCPs in the control of feeding musculature.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 ; Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 ; Neurosecretory cells of insects ; Neuropeptides ; Co-existence of peptides ; Blowfly,Calliphora vomitoria (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Neuronal pathways in the retrocerebral complex and thoracico-abdominal ganglionic mass of the blowflyCalliphora vomitoria have been identified immunocytochemically with antisera against the extended-enkephalins, Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 (Met-7) and Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 (Met-8). Neurons of the hypocerebral ganglion, immunoreactive to Met-8, have axons in the crop duct nerve and terminals in muscles of the crop and its duct. Certain neurons of the hypocerebral ganglion are also immunoreactive to Met-7, and axons from these cells innervate the heart. Met-8 immunoreactive nerve terminals invest the cells of the corpus allatum. The source of this material is believed to ve a single pair of lateral neurosecretory cells in the brain. There is no Met-7 immunoreactive material in the corpus allatum. In the corpus cardiacum neither Met-7 nor Met-8 immunoreactivity is present in the cells. However, in the neuropil of the gland certain fibres, with their origins elsewhere, do contain Met-8 immunoreactivity. The most prominent neurons in the thoracic ganglion are the Met-7 immunoreactive ventral thoracic neurosecretory cells, axons from which project to neurohaemal areas in the dorsal neural sheath and also, via the ventral connective, to the brain. Co-localisation studies show that the perikarya of these cells are immunoreactive to antisera raised against several vertebrate-type peptides, such as Met-7, gastrin/cholecystokinin and pancreatic polypeptide. However, their axons and terminals show varying amounts of the peptides, suggesting differential transport and utilisation. Only a few cells in the thoracic ganglion are immunoreactive to Met-8 antisera. These lie close to the nerve bundles suppling the legs. In the abdominal ganglion, Met-8 immunoreactive neurons project to the muscles of the hindgut. This study suggests that the extended enkephalin-like peptides ofCalliphora may have a variety of different roles: as neurotransmitter or neuromodulator substances; in the direct innervation of effector organs; and as neurohormones.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Insulin-like peptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Immunochemical characterization ; Brain ; Neuroendocrine structures ; Leucophaea maderae (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Immunocytochemical tests with eight monoclonal antibodies against either bovine or human insulin and seven polyclonal antibodies against bovine insulin were carried out to determine the presence of insulin-like neuropeptides in the brain and affiliated neuroendocrine structures of the insect Leucophaea maderae. Reaction products identified in the brain, subesophageal ganglion, and corpus cardiacum-corpus allatum complex indicate the presence of materials resembling mammalian insulins in its antigenic properties. The immunostaining observed with monoclonal antibodies appears to indicate the occurrence of an insulin-related peptide that shows sequential similarities with parts of both the A- and B-chains of mammalian insulin molecules. These suppositions are supported by the results of dot-blot and two-site time-resolved immunofluorometric assay (TR-IFMA) screenings of fractions of Leucophaea tissue extracts obtained by chromatography. The polyclonal antibodies yielded reaction products in some of the same areas and in additional parts of the neuroendocrine system not visualized by the monoclonal antibodies. Immunoreaction was observed in the following areas: the pars intercerebralis of the protocerebrum, the nervi corporis cardiaci I transporting insulin-like material to the corpus cardiacum, the dorsolateral protocerebral area and the optic lobes, the deutocerebrum, the tritocerebrum, and the subesophageal ganglion. In addition, smaller cell bodies with immunoreactive deposits occur at the border between proto- and deutocerebrum, and in the central area of the protocerebrum. The distribution of reactive material in the corpus cardiacum-corpus allatum complex after use of both groups of antibodies was the same. The fact that polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies yielded reaction products in different cells of the brain suggests either that the two groups of antibodies recognize different epitopes of the same molecule, or that they reveal two different types of immunoreactive molecules related to mammalian insulins. Together with the biochemical data reported by Nagasawa and coworkers (PNAS 83, 1986) the present immunocytochemical analysis has established a closer relationship between mammalian and insect “insulins” than was previously known.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Serotonin ; Urotensins ; Somatostatin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Caudal neurosecretory system ; Reissner's fiber (subcommissural organ) ; Salmon,Oncorhynchus kisutch (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The caudal spinal cord of the coho salmon was investigated by means of immunocytochemistry using antisera against serotonin, urotensin I, urotensin II, somatostatin and a urea-extract of bovine Reissner's fiber (AFRU). Populations of serotonin-immunoreactive (IR) neurons were found rostral and dorsal to the urophysis in close spatial association with caudal secretory neurons. Thick, smooth serotonin-IR processes extended toward the external surface of the spinal cord where they displayed conspicuous terminal dilatations. Thin, beaded serotonin-IR fibers appeared to innervate populations of caudal secretory and somatostatin-IR cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons. Most caudal neurosecretory cells displayed both urotensin I and urotensin II immunoreactivities; only a minority reacted exclusively with either urotensin I or urotensin II antisera. Urotensin II-IR and somatostatin-IR cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-contacting neurons were found as an integral component of the central canal wall in the caudal spinal cord and filum terminale; their dendritic processes appeared to contact Reissner's fiber, which displayed a weak AFRU-immunoreactivity while inside the central canal, but became strongly reactive in the interior of the terminal ventricle as it formed the massa caudalis. The distribution of serotoninergic processes points to a regulatory role in the function of caudal secretory and CSF-contacting neurons and to a putative serotonin release into the subarachnoid space and/or meningeal vasculature. It is also suggested that the CSF-contacting neurons of the central canal may participate in a feedback mechanism controlling the secretory activity of the subcommissural organ.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Adenohypophysis ; Pars tuberalis ; Immunocytochemistry ; Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) ; Propylthiouracil (PTU) ; Thyroxine (T4) ; Rat (Wistar)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The pars tuberalis (pt) of the adenohypophysis is unique in its close spatial relationship to the neurohemal contact area of the median eminence. The morphology of pt-specific secretory cells does not resemble cell types of the pars distalis (pd); the functional role of these cells within the endocrine system is still unknown. One group of young mature female Wistar rats received propylthiouracil (PTU), a second group thyroxine (T4) (10 mg/l each in drinking water) from about 3 weeks prior to the expected pregnancy and throughout the experiment. On gestation day 20, the fetuses were obtained by laparatomy. Serial sections from the rostral portion of the pt and from the pd were immunostained using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method. TSH concentrations were determined by RIA in serum and pituitaries; T4 was measured in serum. An antiserum against rat (r) TSH revealed a moderate positive reaction of nearly all cells of the pt in the control group. In both experimental groups the pt-specific cells showed weak or no immunoreactivity. Sections of all groups were negative with anti(r)-LH,-GH,-PRL. In contrast to controls, only a few immature TSH-cells could be found in sections of the pd in the T4-group, while concentrations of TSH in blood and hypophysis were very low. TSH-cells in the PTU-group were enlarged and less intensely stained. TSH-concentrations were decreased in the hypophysis, blood levels were elevated. All sections of the pd-specific cell populations showed positive immunoreactions with anti(r)-LH,-GH,-PRL. The present results suggest that pt-specific secretory cells of the fetal rat possess TSH immunoreactivity but do not resemble the thyrotropes of the pd. Marked differences in immunoreactivity displayed by the experimental groups indicate that pt-specific cells respond to changes in the fetal thyroid status and are a component of the thyroid-regulating system in addition to the thyrotropes of the pd. This novel aspect of pt function is discussed in connection with recent results concerning melatonin receptors found in the pt and the inhibitory influence of the pineal gland exerted on the thyroid gland.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 7
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 479-484 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Histamine ; Immunocytochemistry ; Nervous system ; Excretory system ; Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) ; Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Cestoda) ; Microstomum lineare (Turbellaria)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Specific antibodies against histamine were used to demonstrate the occurrence and cellular distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in three species of flatworms (phylum Platyhelminthes). In the parasitic cestode Diphyllobothrium dendriticum, histamine-reactivity was found in neurons of the main nerve cords, and in cells lining the central and peripheral excretory ducts. In the free-living microturbellarian Microstomum lineare and in the planarian Polycelis nigra, histamine-immuno-reactivity was restricted to cells and fibres of the nervous system. The occurrence of histamine or a related substance in the nervous system of flatworms, which represent primary bilateria, indicates the importance of this neuroactive substance in the animal kingdom.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 8
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 211-217 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Fundic mucosa ; Stomach ; Pepsinogen ; Cell renewal ; Development, ontogenetic ; Immunocytochemistry ; Mouse (ICR)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Development and maturation of pepsinogen 1-producing cells were studied in the gastric fundic mucosa of the mouse by means of light- and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry using rabbit anti-rat pepsinogen 1-serum. In the adult mouse, secretory granules in mucous neck cells, transitional mucous neck/chief cells and chief cells are immunolabeled. The numerical density of gold particles on zymogen granules is not significantly altered among different stages of maturation of chief cells. In addition, rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex of these cell types show a weak labeling. In mice from day 16 of gestation to postnatal day 14 mucous neck cells and chief cells cannot be distinguished, but only one type of pepsinogen 1-producing cell, called ‘primitive chief cell’, is identified in the fundic gland. The intensity of immunoreactivity of secretory granules in primitive chief cells is uniform within an individual cell but varies greatly among different cells. The majority of primitive chief cells contains weakly labeled granules regardless of the maturation stage of cells or of animals. On postnatal day 21, mucous neck, transitional and chief cells are distinguishable, and secretory granules in these cells are intensely immunolabeled as in the adult. These results suggest that pepsinogen 1-production rapidly increases with differentiation of mucouse neck and chief cells.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 9
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 203-205 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Prolactin cells ; Pituitary gland ; Tilapia larvae, Oreochromis mossambicus (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Using an antiserum to highly purified chum salmon prolactin, prolactin cells were identified in the putative rostral pars distalis of newly hatched tilapia larvae (Oreochromis mossambicus) by the immunogold method for the electron microscope. In the putative rostral pars distalis, some cells had another kind of secretory granule which was much less numerous, much smaller in size, and without immunoreactivity to salmon prolactin antiserum. Controls incubated with salmon prolactin-preabsorbed antiserum or normal serum showed no immunoreactive cells, confirming the specificity of the antiserum. The possible role of prolactin in the osmoregulation of tilapia larvae is discussed.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Antennae ; Motoneurons ; Immunocytochemistry ; Cobalt labelling ; GABA ; Gryllus bimaculatus (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary In crickets, a deutocerebral motoneuron sends axon collaterals to 6 of the 7 antennal muscles. Previous results indicated that this neuron exerts inhibition on these muscles and thus may be a common inhibitory motoneuron. In our present study, we show by doublelabelling, i.e. retrograde cobalt-filling and GABA-immunocytochemistry, that this neuron is GABA-immunoreactive, thus demonstrating that one common inhibitory motoneuron is part of the antennal motor system of crickets.
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  • 11
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Neuropeptides ; Immunocytochemistry ; Submucosal plexuses ; Enteric nervous system ; Small intestine ; Pig
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary In addition to differences between the two submucosal ganglionic neural networks, i.e., the plexus submucosus externus (Schabadasch) and the plexus submucosus internus (Meissner), with respect to the occurrence and distribution of serotonin as neurotransmitter, immunocytochemistry also revealed a distinct distribution for various neuropeptides in these two plexuses. Immunoreactivity for galanin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, calcitonin gene-related peptide, substance P, neuromedin U, enkephalin, somatostatin and neuropeptide Y was found in varicose and non-varicose nerve fibres of both submucosal ganglionic plexuses, albeit with a distinct distributional pattern. The difference in neurotransmitter and/or neuromodulator content between both neural networks became even more obvious when attention was focussed on the immunoreactivity of the nerve cell bodies for these substances. Indeed, neuropeptide Y, enkephalin-and somatostatin-immunoreactive neuronal perikarya as well as serotonergic neuronal cell bodies appear solely in the plexus submucosus externus. Neuromedin U-immunoreactive perikarya, mostly coexisting with substance P, are observed in large numbers in the plexus submucosus internus, whilst they are rare in the plexus submucosus externus. Double-labelling immunostaining for substance P with CGRP and galanin revealed a different coexistence pattern for the two submucosal ganglionic plexuses. The differing chemical content of the neuronal populations supports the hypothesis that the existence of the two submucosal ganglionic plexuses, present in most large mammals including man, not only reflects a morphological difference but also points to differentiated functions.
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  • 12
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 177-190 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): FMRFamide ; Neuropeptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Nervous system, central ; Neurohormones ; Helix pomatia (Mollusca)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of FMRFamide-like immunoreactive (FLI) neurons and their morphological characteristics have been investigated in the central nervous system of the snail, Helix pomatia L. Approximately phageal ganglion complex. More than 50% of the FLI neurons were located in the cerebral ganglia. The FLI neurons could be divided into four groups according to size: (i) giant neurons (over 100 μm); (ii) large neurons (80–100 μm); (iii) medium-sized neurons (40–70 μm); (iv) small neurons (12–30 μm). They were distributed i) in groups or clusters, typical of small neurons and ii) in solitary form or in groups comprising 2–3 cells, typical of large and giant neurons. Giant and large neurons revealed only limited arborizations in the neuropil, but rich branching towards and in the peripheral nerves. Some of the small neurons had extensive arborizations of varicose fibers in the neuropil. They may therefore play some role in integratory processes. Varicose FLI fibers were visualized in the cell body layer of the different ganglia, and in the neural sheath of both the ganglia and the peripheral nerves. We propose a multifunctional involvement of FLI neurons and FMRFamide-like neuropeptides in the Helix nervous system: (i) a synaptic or modulatory role in axo-axonic interactions in the neuropil; (ii) a direct influence on neuronal cell bodies in the cortical layer, (iii) innervation of different peripheral organs; and (iv) remote neurohormonal control of peripheral events through the neural sheath.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 13
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Gonadotropes ; Morphometry ; Stereology ; Rana pipiens (Anura)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Previous physiological results have indicated the existence of two releasable pools of gonadotropins in amphibian pituitaries: an acute releasable pool that appears independent of protein synthesis, and a storage pool involved in chronic release that depends on protein synthesis. To elucidate the ultrastructural localization of these pools and the morphological changes induced in gonadotrope cells after treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone, we carried out a morphometric study of immuno-identified gonadotrope cells using an in vitro superfusion system. Treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone induced a degranulation of small (110–255 nm) and medium (236–360 nm) secretory granules as well as hypertrophy of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex. Simultaneous incubation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone and cycloheximide inhibited the release of secretory granules although the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex were hypertrophied. These morphological results strongly suggest: (1) that gonadotropin-releasing hormone induces degranulation and hypertrophy of the biosynthetic machinery in gonadotrope cells; and (2) that the activation of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex by stimulation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone is independent of protein synthesis, while the release of secretory granules is protein synthesis-dependent. In addition, the second or “storage” pool of gonadotropin is associated mainly with the small and medium secretory granules.
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  • 14
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 273-281 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Chang hepatoma cells ; Growth hormone ; GERL ; Golgi complex ; Immunocytochemistry ; Tumor
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The binding and internalization of endogenous growth hormone in Chang hepatoma cells were localized on the cell surface and in the Golgi-endoplasmic reticulum-lysosome (GERL) area by various indirect immunocytochemical labeling techniques, namely, peroxidase or colloidal gold conjugated to secondary antibody, and avidin-biotin complex methods. Rabbit antiserum and monoclonal antibodies raised against HPLC-purified porcine growth hormone were used in this study. In fixed material, antigen-antibody complexes were found to be homogeneously distributed along the cell membrane. Control groups showed negative binding on the cell surface. Trypsin treatment before immunolabeling removed antibody binding completely, but hyaluronidase was ineffective. Pretreatment of lectins did not block the recognition of primary antibody to antigen molecules on cell surface. Internalization of the antigen-antibody peroxidase or gold complexes was demonstrated in the cells, which were immunolabeled at 4°C, and then reincubated for 0–30 min at 37°C before fixation. After reincubation, the internalized ligand complexes were found in vesicles near the cell surface or in the GERL area near the Golgi apparatus which, however, did not label for peroxidase. These findings suggest that the trypsin-sensitive growth hormone, specifically bound and internalized into Chang hepatoma cells, is localized in the GERL instead of the Golgi apparatus and might be involved in the mechanism of tumor cell growth.
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  • 15
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 461-466 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Galanin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Necturus maculosus (Urodela)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Galanin is a biologically active peptide which has a wide pattern of distribution in the mammalian central and peripheral nervous systems. However, the distribution of galanin-like immunoreactivity in amphibian species has not been well elucidated. In the present study, biochemical and immunohistochemical techniques were used to determine the relative concentrations, biochemical nature, and cellular localization of galanin-like immunoreactivity in the brain, heart, urinary bladder, and small intestine of Necturus maculosus (common name: mudpuppy). The results of this study indicate that each of these types of tissue contain a galanin-like peptide which is similar to porcine galanin. Brain and heart concentrations of galanin-like immuno-reactivity were particularly high, although substantial amounts were also present in the small intestine and urinary bladder. Galanin immunoreactivity was observed in ascending fiber tracts of the brainstem and in fibers in the hypothalamus. In addition, galanin immunoreactivity was observed in autonomic neurons and processes in the heart, bladder, and small intestine. The pattern of distribution of galanin-like immunoreactivity in many tissues of this amphibian species is similar to the previously described mammalian pattern; however, galanin-immunoreactive innervation of cardiac tissue has not been reported in mammals. We suggest that galanin-like immunoreactivity in the heart may be more extensive in amphibian species than in mammals.
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  • 16
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Photoreceptor cells ; Rhodopsin ; Membrane recycling ; Cherax destructor (Crustacea)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Examination of the ultrastructure of retinula cells of the Australian crayfish Cherax destructor at different times over a 24-hour cycle, together with patterns of anti-rhodopsin antigenicity, has lead to the formulation of a model of photoreceptor membrane turnover in these animals. Its main features are: (a) the existence of two bursts of rhabdomeral membrane breakdown; one, light-sensitive and synchronous, occurring at dawn, the other, constituting the first part of the membrane replacement phase itself, occurring during the afternoon and night, (b) the desynchronisation of the replacement phase of turnover between animals and to a lesser extent between cells of the same retina, (c) confinement of ultrastructurally detectable signs of photoreceptor membrane processing to the retinula cells themselves, and (d) replacement of a substantial part if not all of the rhabdomeral membrane daily. This model is compatible with many of the observations reported on the American crayfish Procambarus, and utilises the same basic mechanisms that are believed to operate in photoreceptor membrane turnover in many other arthropod compound eyes.
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  • 17
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 501-505 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Pinealocytes ; Visinin ; Calcium-binding protein ; Light, constant ; Photosensitization ; Immunocytochemistry ; Domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Visinin, a calcium-binding protein isolated from the soluble fraction of homogenized chick retinae, has been recognized immunocytochemically in the pinealocytes of various submammals. In the chick pineal organ, continuous environmental light induced an increase in population density of visinin-immunoreactive pinealocytes. In semi-quantitative, dot-immunoblotting analysis, the amount of visinin in the pineal organs of chicks kept under continuous light for 3 days was 4–8 fold more abundant than that under continuous darkness for the same duration. Eye-enucleation and organ culture experiments clarified that this lighting effect was exerted directly on the pineal organ through the skull, and not via the neural pathway including the retinohypothalamic projection. These data suggest the existence of direct photosensitivity in the chick pinealocyte itself and the possible involvement of visinin in photoreception of the pineal organ as well as the retina of chicks.
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  • 18
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Vasotocin ; Hypothalamus ; Neurosecretory fibers ; Scyliorhinus canicula (Elasmobranchii)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of vasotocin-like peptides in the central nervous system of the cartilaginous fish Scyliorhinus canicula was determined by indirect immunofluorescence and peroxidase anti-peroxidase techniques, using a specific antiserum raised in rabbits against synthetic vasotocin. Immunoreactive perikarya were mainly detected in the anterior hypothalamus, within the midcaudal part of the preoptic nucleus. The most rostral positive cell bodies were located in the dorso-lateral parts of the preoptic area, whereas at a more caudal level, they took a ventro-medial position within the deepest layers of the nucleus. Throughout the preoptic region these cells varied in shape according to their location. Occasionally, scattered vasotocin-like immunopositive cells were also identified in the nucleus periventricularis hypothalami. Vasotocin immunoreactivity was detected in numerous varicose nerve fibers of the preopticohypophysial tract. These fibers were seen to course through the medio-basal hypothalamus and caudally, after having passed the hypophysial stem, they reached the neurointermediate lobe of the pituitary. Numerous immunoreactive fibers were also observed within the rostro-medial region of the median eminence. At this level the fibers were in close proximity to the capillary loops. In the preoptic region, some stained cells exibited short processes that appeared to contact non-reactive perikarya. By comparing the distribution of vasotocin- and corticotropin-releasing factor immunoreactivity on adjacent then serial sections, it was revealed that these peptides, in S. canicula, do not coexist in the same perikarya. The present results, are compared with those obtained in other vertebrate groups, and their possible functional implications are discussed.
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  • 19
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 543-550 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): PYY ; NPY ; CGRP ; Serotonin ; Lung ; Radioimmunoassay ; Immunocytochemistry ; Mesocricetus auratus (Rodentia)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary We investigated the presence of peptide YY, neuropeptide Y, calcitonin gene-related peptide and serotonin in the hamster lung by radioimmunoassay, high performance liquid chromatography and immunocytochemistry. Lung-tissue concentrations of peptide YY and neuropeptide Y were 1.3±0.2 and 2.5±0.2 pmol/g wet weight, respectively. These two closely related pancreatic peptides were demonstrated in separate peaks with high performance liquid chromatography. The peptide YY appeared fragmented as immunoreactive peptide YY eluted primarily late in the gradient but showed additional peaks early in the gradient. Peptide YY-like immunoreactivity (PYY-LI) was predominantly observed in one or more cells of neuroepithelial bodies in all airways peripheral to bronchioles, and in solitary neuroendocrine cells primarily located in the same peripheral areas. Neuropeptide Y-LI was seen in individual, thin nerve fibers around arteries and veins, in the airway lamina propria, and in the airway epithelium; in the latter also immunopositive nerve terminals were located. This pattern did not appear to coincide with that of calcitonin gene-related peptide-LI in epithelial nerve fibers and terminals. Peptide YY-LI, calcitonin gene-related-LI and serotonin-LI were present in cells of one and the same neuroepithelial body. However, peptide YY-LI was never found to be co-localized with calcitonin gene-related-LI or serotonin-LI, but the latter two were co-localized as previously reported.
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  • 20
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 263 (1991), S. 207-215 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Somatolactin (SL) ; Pituitary gland, pars intermedia ; PAS-positive cells ; Immunocytochemistry ; Gadus morhua, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Poecillia latipinna (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary We report here on the cellular localization in the fish pituitary of somatolactin (SL), a putative new pituitary hormone related to growth hormone and prolactin, which has been recently identified in the piscine pituitary gland. Immunocytochemical staining, using anti-cod SL serum, revealed that in the cod pituitary gland, SL is produced by cells in the intermediate lobe, bordering the neural tissue. These cells, staining weakly with periodic-acid-Schiff (PAS), are distinct from the melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH) cells which, as in all teleosts, are PAS-negative. SL-immunoreactivity was observed in the same location in all other teleost species examined: flounder, rainbow trout, killifish, molly, catfish and eel. In most fish the SL-immunoreactive cells are either strongly or weakly PAS-positive but in rainbow trout are chromophobic, indicating that the SL protein can probably exist in glycosylated and non-glycosylated forms. Thus, in demonstrating the cellular localization of SL, this study provides the first identification of the enigmatic, second cell-type of the fish pars intermedia.
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  • 21
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Neurofilaments ; Phosphorylation ; Axon ; Immunocytochemistry ; Golden syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated neurofilament epitopes was determined immunocytochemically in adjacent 2 μm-thick sections of sciatic nerve, ventral root and spinal cord. Staining was scored as either intense, moderate or absent and the proportion of labeled axons was calculated for each category. Nearly all sciatic nerve and ventral root axons were immunoreactive with both antibodies against phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated neurofilaments and there were no significant differences in the number of intensely- or moderately-labeled axons. Within the spinal cord however, while the majority of large caliber axons was stained with both antibodies, there was a significant number of small caliber axons which stained only with antibodies against phosphorylated neurofilaments. These results show that phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated neurofilaments are extensively codistributed in CNS and PNS axons, and that in the CNS, staining intensity for non-phosphorylated epitopes is less in the smaller axons.
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  • 22
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 263 (1991), S. 271-284 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Serotonin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Avian brain ; Hypothalamus ; Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica (Aves)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The presence and topographical localization of the serotoninergic system in the brain of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) have been studied by means of peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immunocytochemistry. The perimeter, diameter, area, and shape factor of immunoreactive cells have been recorded and analyzed morphometrically for intra- and interspecies comparison. The data reported here confirm and extend results previously obtained in the brain of other avian species. Serotonin-immunoreactive neurons of the quail are mainly located in the hypothalamic paraventricular organ and adjacent areas, and in the brainstem where they form three separate groups. The first of these groups consists of small-sized neurons located in the ventro-rostral mesencephalon. The second group is composed of medium-sized neurons located in the dorsal mesencephalo-pontine region. The third group is also formed by medium-sized neurons, and is located ventrally in the ponto-medullary region. In the quail brain, serotoninergic neurons are not restricted to nuclei located in the vicinity of the midsagittal plane, but show some lateralization, especially in the brainstem. The organization of the different groups of immunoreactive neurons based on this topographical distribution and morphometric analysis has been compared with descriptions of the serotoninergic system in other birds. Serotonin-immunoreactive nerve fibers are widely distributed throughout the brain, but appear to be particularly abundant in regions involved in the control of reproductive activities, such as the septal region, the medial preoptic nucleus, the nucleus intercollicularis, and the external zone of the median eminence. The data reported here have allowed the drawing of a map of serotoninimmunoreactive structure.
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  • 23
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 ; Immunocytochemistry ; Neuropeptides ; Allatostatins ; Neurosecretory cells ; Corpus cardiacum/corpus allatum complex ; Diploptera punctata, Calliphora vomitoria (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Neuronal circuits in the brain and retrocerebral complex of the cockroach Diploptera punctata have been mapped immunocytochemically with antisera directed against the extended enkephalin, Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 (Met-8). The pathways link median and lateral neurosecretory cells with the corpus cardiacum/corpus allatum complex. In females, nerve fibres penetrate the corpora allata and varicosities or terminals, immunoreactive to Met-8, surround the glandular cells. Males differ in having almost no Met-8 immunoreactivity in the corpora allata. The corpora cardiaca of both males and females are richly supplied with Met-8 immunoreactive material, in particular in the ‘cap’ regions immediately adjacent to the corpora allata. A similarity in the amino-acid sequences of Met-8 and the C-terminus of the recently characterised allatostatins of D. punctata suggests that the pathways identified with the Met-8 antisera may be the same as those by which the allatostatins are transported from the brain to the corpus allatum. In comparative studies on the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria, similar neuronal pathways have been identified except that no sexual dimophism with respect to amounts of immunoreactive material within the corpus allatum has been observed. These results suggest a possible homology in the neuropeptide regulation of the gland.
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  • 24
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Vitamin D-1,25(OH)2D3-like immunoreactivity ; 1,25(OH)2D3 receptor-like immunoreactivity ; Immunocytochemistry ; Calcium ions ; Orchestia cavimana (Crustacea)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary For the first time, immunoreactivity to 1,25(OH)2D3-like molecules and their receptors has been investigated in a calcium transporting epithelium of a crustacean, Orchestia, using vertebrate antisera on ultrathin cryosections of posterior caeca previously fixed in glutaraldehyde, then postfixed in osmium tetroxide. Both immunoreactivities were located mainly in the nuclei of epithelial cells. Quantitative differences in 1,25(OH)2D3-like immunoreactivity were noticed from one stage of the molt cycle to another. These results, together with other data, contribute to evidence that immunoreactive 1,25(OH)2D3-like molecules may be involved in the regulatory processes of calcium metabolism in this terrestrial crustacean and suggest an involvement of these substances in the regulation of calcium movements in the posterior caeca.
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  • 25
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 264 (1991), S. 23-32 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Male urethra ; Urethral epithelium ; Immunocytochemistry ; Ultrastructure ; Man
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distal segment of the human male urethra, in particular the fossa navicularis, was studied with light- and electron microscopy as well as by means of histochemical and immunocytochemical methods. The fossa navicularis of the urethra contains a circumscribed zone of extremely thick, non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium composed of cells containing a large amount of glycogen. These cells lack acid phosphatase activity and lysozyme-like immunoreactivity, both of which can be demonstrated to varying extents in the other zones of the distal male urethra. These glycogen-rich cells are considered to be the substrate for an endogenous flora of lactobacteria, whereas the acid-phosphatase activity and the lysozyme-like immunoreactivity indicate the presence of macrophages and the secretion of bactericidal agents at the epithelial surface. These observations suggest that the different zones with heterogeneous properties in the distal male urethra probably represent a defense system against the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms. Moreover, the glycogen-rich zone, which resembles the glycogen-rich epithelium of the vagina, is estrogen-dependent. This is demonstrated in cases of sex reversal in which after long-lasting estrogen treatment the glycogen-rich zone becomes extremely extended by displacement of the neighbouring epithelium.
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  • 26
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Enkephalins ; Tegmentum mesencephali ; Tectum opticum ; Immunocytochemistry ; Retrograde labeling ; Cobalt-lysine ; Salmo gairdneri, Salmo salar (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Immunocytochemistry using antibodies against Met-enkephalin and Leu-enkephalin has demonstrated a group of large enkephalin-immunoreactive neurons in the nucleus of the rostral mesencephalic tegmentum (mRMT) of two teleost fish, Salmo gairdneri and Salmo salar. Injections of cobalt-lysine in the medial optic tectum retrogradely labeled the above group of tegmental neurons. Tegmental neurons were labeled only ipsilaterally to the injection site. This indicates that enkephalinergic neurons in the nRMT project to the optic tectum, and that at least some of the enkephalinergic axons observed in the optic tectum belong to a tegmento-tectal pathway. Comparable enkephalinergic pathways have been described in reptiles and birds, where pretectal-mesencephalic nuclei contribute to the enkephalin-containing fibers that project to the optic tectum.
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  • 27
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Pancreas, endocrine ; Larval development ; Serial thin/semithin sections ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rana temporaria (Anura)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The pancreatic endocrine component was studied at different stages of development in the tadpoles of Rana temporaria. The material was embedded in Epon, and serial semithin and thin sections were made in order to correlate ultrastructural features and tinctorial traits of the endocrine cells. Serial semithin sections were also stained with the peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunocytochemical method and with silver impregnations for argyrophilia and argentaffinity. In early larvae (legless tadpoles), A and B cells are present. Both can be found within ducts and exocrine tissue or, more frequently, in cellular clusters among the ducts and acini. These primitive islets are solid structures, surrounded but not penetrated by capillaries. Mitoses were observed in A and B cells. In the following phase (tadpoles with hindlegs), D and pancreatic polypeptide-immunoreactive cells are also present, as well as numerous endocrine cells scattered among exocrine tissue. There is also a change in the vascular-insular pattern: capillaries not only surround but also penetrate the endocrine group. The structure of the endocrine pancreas in older tadpoles is similar. Tinctorial traits and ultrastructural features of endocrine cells are described, and the origin of primitive islets is discussed.
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  • 28
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 264 (1991), S. 481-495 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Neuropeptide Y ; Gonadotropin-releasing hormone ; Reproductive function ; Domestic chicken, Gallus domesticus
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Nerve fibers and perikarya containing gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH-like) immunoreactivity were investigated in the brain of the three-week-old chick, Gallus domesticus using the technique of immunocytochemistry. Six major groups of perikarya were found to include the olfactory bulb, olfactory tubercle/lobus parolfactorius, nucleus accumbens, septal preoptic hypothalamic region (three sub-nuclei), lateral anterior thalamic nucleus and in and about the oculomotor complex. The immunostaining was unusual in the latter group, suggesting that the neurons may contain a GnRH-II like material. Immunoreactive fibers for GnRH were found throughout the entire brain extending from the olfactory bulbs to the caudal brainstem. Two anatomical areas, not emphasized in the past literature, which had distinct GnRH-like immunoreactivity, included the lateral anterior thalamic nucleus and the preoptic recess. The former included a group of GnRH perikarya that is also known to be a retino-recipient area while the latter contained neuronal terminals some of which appeared to be contacting the cerebrospinal fluid of the preoptic recess. An attempt was made to list all anatomical structures that contained or were juxta-positioned to sites that displayed immunoreactive perikarya and fibers including circumventricular organs.
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  • 29
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Rhabdomeres ; Cytoskeleton ; Actin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Membrane shedding ; Leptotarsus spp. (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Rhabdomeres of tipulid flies lose membrane during turnover from a ‘shedding zone’ composed of microvillar tips. These distal domains lack intramicrovillar cytoskeletons and appear to be empty sacs of membrane. Recent concerns about the role of ninaC mechano-enzymes in the architecture of dipteran rhabodomeral microvilli and the dynamic role that they may play in the creation of shedding zones demand an examination of the distribution of actin in tipulid rhabdomeres. We compared rhabdomeres from tipulid retinae incubated before fixation for immunocytochemistry in a buffer without additives and a stabilising buffer that contained a cocktail of cysteine protease inhibitors; both were challenged by an anti-actin antibody for immunogold labelling after embedding in LR White Resin. Shedding zones thus processed collapse to structureless detritus. Stabilised and unstabilised shedding zones were immunonegative to anti-actin. To ensure that the negative results were not consequent upon conformational changes generated by the processing protocol, we examined microvilli of degenerating rhabdomeres of the Drosophila light-dependent retinal degeneration mutant rdgB KS222 (which separate and collapse without creating a shedding zone) and found the detritus they generate to be immunopositive to anti-actin. Stabilised and unstabilised regions of basal regions of tipulid rhabdomeres were equally immunopositive. We infer that (a) actin is absent from shedding zones; (b) actin is not degraded by microvillar cysteine proteases. The implications of these conclusions are discussed in relation to some functional models of arthropod photoreceptor microvilli.
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  • 30
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 485-492 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): ACTH ; Brain ; Hypothalamus ; Hypophysectomy ; Cortisol ; Metopirone ; Immunocytochemistry ; Pituitary ; Corticotropin-releasing factor ; Anguilla anguilla (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary An ACTH-like peptidergic system was demonstrated in the brain of three teleost species by immunocytochemistry. In order to investigate the origin of brain ACTH and factors modulating its synthesis, similar techniques were applied to the brain of eels (1) submitted to hypothysectomy in order to suppress pituitary ACTH and plasma cortisol, (2) injected with cortisol to inhibit pituitary ACTH synthesis and release, and (3) injected with metopirone to block cortisol synthesis and stimulate ACTH synthesis and release. Hypophysectomized eels showed a normal distribution of immunoreactive perikarya in the ventral hypothalamus and fibers in the brain, suggesting that brain ACTH does not arise from the pituitary. In cortisol-treated eels immunostaining was markedly reduced in brain perikarya and pituitary corticotropes, suggesting a reduced synthesis. In metopirone-injected eels, one third of the animals showed an increased immunostaining in perikarya and a dense network of immunoreactive fibers, suggesting that ACTH synthesis was increased. Brain ACTH was not affected in other animals. Pituitary corticotropes were rapidly degranulated. Responses of ACTH in the brain and pituitary occur independently when cortisol synthesis is inhibited. These responses are compared to those of the corticotropin-releasing factor system in the same eels.
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  • 31
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 527-534 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Autonomic nervous system ganglia ; Enteric nervous system ; Intestine, large ; Tissue culture ; Immunocytochemistry ; Peptides ; Guinea-pig
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Ganglia of the myenteric plexus from the newborn guinea-pig, isolated by microdissection, were dissociated by a combination of enzymatic and mechanical methods. The neurones and glial cells in the resulting cell suspension were cultured for up to 21 days in vitro. The growth of the enteric ganglion cells in serum-free, hormone-supplemented (N1) medium and in serum-supplemented medium containing a mitotic inhibitor was compared over a period of 14 days in vitro. Enteric neurones were outnumbered by glia in both culture media, although glial cell proliferation was inhibited in both media compared with that in serum-supplemented medium without mitotic inhibitors. Glial cell numbers appeared to decline in serum-free medium after the first week in vitro. Neurites tended to be more varicose in the serum-free medium, and the morphology of the enteric glial cells also differed markedly in the two media. This is the first report of the dissociation and subsequent culture of myenteric ganglia that had previously been completely isolated from the remainder of the gut wall.
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  • 32
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 517-525 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Spermiogenesis ; Spermatids ; DNA ; Immunocytochemistry ; Electron microscopy ; Bovine ; Mouse ; Rabbit
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary DNA distribution in mouse, rabbit and bull spermatids was analyzed by electron microscopy, after using a Feulgen-like HCl-osmium ammine procedure, and after immunocytochemistry with anti-DNA antibodies. In addition, nucleic acids were visualized with the intercalating dye ethidium bromide and phosphotungstic acid. The parts of DNA displaying a beta helix configuration (possibly A-T rich parts) were identified by epifluorescence microscopy after staining with Hoechst 33258. In all 3 species, young spermatid nuclei were seen to have large areas poor in DNA, as well as DNA-rich areas, which were mostly concentrated into a peripheral layer close to the acrosome and into one or several masses, displaying species-specific locations. These DNA-rich areas were stained with Hoechst 33258. Elongating spermatid nuclei contained homogeneously distributed DNA, and this was evident following both immunocytochemistry and nucleic acid histochemistry in all 3 species. However, the distribution appeared more heterogeneous after the Feulgen-like procedure, and was accompanied by a disappearance of Hoechst-fluorescence. In fully elongated spermatids, all nuclear areas stained with Hoechst 33258, while the 3 other techniques labeled either all or species-specific parts of the condensed chromatin. The reasons for these variable reactions are discussed in terms of technique specificities, DNA configuration and nucleoprotein moiety replacements.
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  • 33
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Retina ; Melatonin ; Rhythmic biosynthesis ; Immunocytochemistry ; Pike, Esox lucius (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The levels of melatonin and the activities of two enzymes of the melatonin biosynthetic pathway, serotonin N-acetyltransferase (NAT) and hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase (HIOMT), were measured throughout the light-dark cycle in the retina of a teleost fish, the pike. HIOMT activity did not display significant variations, whereas NAT activity and melatonin content showed a daily rhythm, high levels occurring during the night. The profiles of the latter two rhythms did not closely match one another and differed from those previously described in the pineal organ of the same species. These results are discussed with respect to a possible paracrine role of retinal melatonin. Melatonin-like immunoreactivity was found in the photoreceptor cell layer and in the Müller cells of the inner nuclear layer. The intensity of the melatonin-like immunoreactivity varied throughout the 24 h light-dark cycle, in good correlation with the variations in the melatonin level as measured by radioimmunoassay.
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  • 34
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 611-614 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Met-enkephalin ; Merkel cells ; Dense-core granules ; Mouse (ICR)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The electron-microscopic immunogold method was applied to Merkel cells of adult mice to demonstrate the subcellular localization of met-enkephalin-like immunoreactivity. Post-embedding incubation with metenkephalin antisera showed that the gold particles were associated with the dense-core granules of the Merkel cells. The majority, but not all, of the dense-core granules were strongly labelled. Osmication caused a significant reduction in the number of gold particles on these granules. The nerve terminal associated with the Merkel cell did not show met-enkephalin-like immunoreactivity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the ultrastructural localization of a positive met-enkephalin immunoreactivity in the dense-core granules of Merkel cells in mice.
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  • 35
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Hypothalamus ; Neurosecretion ; Vasotocin-neurophysin precursor ; Immunocytochemistry ; Lectin histochemistry ; Snake, Natrix maura ; Lizard, Liolaemus cyanogaster
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The immunocytochemical and lectin-binding properties of the magnocellular neurosecretory neurons in the hypothalamus of 2 reptilian species, the snake Natrix maura and the lizard Liolaemus cyanogaster, were investigated. Particular attention was paid to the secretory droplets present in these neurons. Antisera against bovine neurophysins I+II, arginine-vasotocin, and mesotocin were used. The following lectins were applied: concanavalin A (Con A), wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), and Limax flavus agglutinin (LFA). Adjacent 1-μm-thick methacrylate sections were used to investigate the same secretory neuron and the same colloid droplets with all three antisera and all three lectins. Several sections were treated with trypsin and urea before immunostaining or lectin binding. Con A bound to both vasotocin- and mesotocin-immunoreactive neurons, WGA exclusively to vasotocin neurons; neither of these neurons reacted with LFA. The colloid droplets were present in vasotocin neurons but absent in the mesotocin neurons. These secretory droplets showed an affinity for Con A but not for WGA, and reacted with antisera against neurophysins and vasotocin. In Natrix maura, the colloid droplets became reactive with Con A and the antisera used only after pretreatment of the sections with trypsin and urea. Within the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system, antiserum against vasotocin and WGA revealed the same fiber bundles. It is concluded (i) that in reptiles the vasotocin-neurophysin precursor is glycosylated, (ii) that vasotocin neurons have the exclusive capacity to form colloid droplets, and (iii) that these droplets are an intracisternal (RER) storage form of the vasotocin-neurophysin precursor.
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  • 36
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    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 131-135 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Thyroid ; Neuromedin U ; C-cell ; Immunocytochemistry ; Chromatography ; Rat (Wistar)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Neuromedin U is a novel neuropeptide found to have a widespread distribution extending throughout the mammalian central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract and the endocrine cells of the pituitary gland. In order to investigate the possibility that neuromedin U-like immunoreactivity is also present in the thyroid gland of the adult rat we have examined its localisation and molecular nature by radioimmunoassay, immunocytochemistry and chromatographic analysis. The neuromedin U content of the whole thyroid gland was found to be 331±67 fmol/gland (mean±SEM), and this value significantly decreased (163±17 fmol/gland) as a result of 14 days of treatment with the anti-thyroid agent methimazole (10 mg/rat/day. Thyrotoxicosis induced by exogenous T4 (10 μg/rat/day) failed to alter the thyroid content of this peptide. Immunostaining studies localised neuromedin U to a minor population of parafollicular C-cells in untreated animals. Complementary chromatographic studies revealed a single molecular form of neuromedin U-like immunoreactivity in thyroid tissue extracts which was indistinguishable from synthetic rat neuromedin U standard.
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  • 37
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 41-48 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Keratin filament ; Circumvallate papilla ; Taste bud ; Immunocytochemistry ; Electron microscopy ; Mouse (dd)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Keratin filaments of epithelial- and taste-bud cells in the circumvallate papillae of adult and developing mice were studied by immunocytochemistry using monoclonal antikeratin antibodies (PKK2 and PKK3) and by conventional electron microscopy. Elongated cells (type-I,-II, and-III cells) of the taste buds were stained by PKK3 antibody, which reacts with 45-kdalton keratin, whereas basal cells of the taste buds and surrounding epithelial cells showed negative staining with PKK3. Such PKK3-reactive cells occurred at 0 day after birth, when taste-buds first appeared in the dorsal surface epithelium of the papillae. Thus 45-kdalton keratin seems to be an excellent immunocytochemical marker for identifying taste-bud cells. Epithelial cells in all layers of the trench wall and basal layer cells of the dorsal surface contained densely aggregated bundles of keratin filaments that reacted with PKK2 antibody, but not with PKK3. In contrast, taste-bud cells and spinous and granular layer cells of the dorsal surface possessed loose aggregated bundles of filaments that reacted with PKK3, but not with PKK2. These results suggest that the aggregation and distribution pattern of keratin filaments may reflect differences in the keratin subtypes that comprise these filaments.
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  • 38
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 73-84 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Muscle, skeletal ; Regeneration ; Thrombospondin ; Fibrinogen ; Injury ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rat (Sprague-Dawley)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Biochemical and immuno-microscopic techniques were used to study temporal involvement of thrombospondin in relation to fibrinogen in muscle regeneration using a rat skeletal muscle-wound model. In undamaged control muscle, no fibrinogen and minimal thrombospondin antigen was found. Following crushing injury, fibrin networks appear immediately, followed by a gradual ordered accumulation of thrombospondin (within a few hours) in the vicinity of the vascular bed and adjacent endomysial connective tissue. Later, thrombospondin becomes associated with connective tissue and basal laminae around muscle fibers throughout the damaged muscle, maximal labelling occurring 3–6 days post-injury. Thrombospondin immunoreactivity decreased thereafter to near normal levels after 7 days post-injury, coincident with the appearance of regenerating muscle fibers. In contrast, little fibrin material remained by five days after injury. Quantitative radioimmunoassay of soluble thrombospondin antigen and radioimmune labelling of thick frozen sections reinforced the qualitative immuno-microscopic observations, with levels peaking at 3–4 days post-trauma, 10-fold over control levels. SDS-PAGE immunoblotting of non-reduced muscle extracts three days after a crush assault shows that the bulk of the thrombospondin incorporated into the injury site exists in a polymerized state (≤1000 kD). These results demonstrate that the temporal appearance and disappearance of thrombospondin in the healing of a crushing lesion in muscle is related more closely to the regeneration phase of muscle than to the coagulation phase.
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  • 39
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 107-113 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Dynorphin A ; GABA ; Substantia nigra ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rat (Wistar)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The opioid peptide dynorphin A (1–17) is the third transmitter identified in the striatonigral projection, the other two being gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and substance P. The ultrastructural features of the dynorphinergic terminals in substantia nigra/pars reticulata were studied using pre-embedding immunocytochemistry with the classical peroxidase-antiperoxidase-diaminobenzidine-method; these features were compared with GABAergic boutons visualized with an immunogold method. Two distinct types of dynorphin-A-immunoreactive boutons could be identified: (1) type A (81%) possessing characteristics similar to the GA-BAergic nerve endings in this region, i.e., large pleomorphic vesicles and symmetric synaptic contacts, (2) type B (19%) displaying asymmetric synaptic zones and small, mostly round vesicles. These results are in agreement with physiological studies suggesting a dual action of dynorphin A in substantia nigra.
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  • 40
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Neuropeptides ; FMRFamide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Insect nervous system ; Manduca sexta (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Using an antiserum against the tetrapeptide FMRFamide, we have studied the distribution of FMRFamide-like substances in the brain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx mothManduca sexta. More than 2000 neurons per hemisphere exhibit FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity. Most of these cells reside within the optic lobe. Particular types of FMRFamide-immunoreactive neurons can be identified. Among these are neurosecretory cells, putatively centrifugal neurons of the optic lobe, local interneurons of the antennal lobe, mushroom-body Kenyon cells, and small-field neurons of the central complex. In the suboesophageal ganglion, groups of ventral midline neurons exhibit FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity. Some of these cells have axons in the maxillary nerves and apparently give rise to FMRFamide-immunoreactive terminals in the sheath of the suboesophageal ganglion and the maxillary nerves. In local interneurons of the antennal lobe and a particular group of protocerebral neurons, FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity is colocalized with GABA-like immunoreactivity. This suggests that FMRFamide-like peptides may be cotransmitters of these putatively GABAergic interneurons. All FMRFamide-immunoreactive neurons are, furthermore, immunoreactive with an antiserum against bovine pancreatic polypeptide, and the vast majority is also immunoreactive with an antibody against the molluscan small cardioactive peptide SCPB. Therefore, it is possible that more than one peptide is localized within many FMRFamide-immunoreactive neurons. The results suggest that FMRFamide-related peptides are widespread within the nervous system ofM. sexta and might function as neurohormones and neurotransmitters in a variety of neuronal cell types.
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  • 41
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 367-373 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Angiotensinogen ; Ovary ; Estrous cycle Renin-angiotensin system ; Atresia ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rat (Wistar)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The present study examined the presence and cellular distribution of angiotensinogen, the precursor to the angiotensin peptides, in the ovary of the normal cycling rat by immunocytochemistry. Angiotensinogen staining was present in the granulosa cells of maturing follicles and to a lesser extent in those undergoing atresia. Staining was not seen in the granulosa cells of primordial or early primary follicles. In maturing follicles intense staining for angiotensinogen was confined to the antral cell layers, cells of the cumulus oophorus and in the follicular fluid. Strong immunostaining was also seen in the germinal epithelium covering the ovary. Lighter angiotensinogen staining was observed in some parts of the cortical and medullary stroma and occasionally in corpora lutea. No variation in the intensity or pattern of angiotensinogen staining was observed throughout the estrous cycle. Comparison of the distribution of angiotensinogen with the previously described localization of renin, AII, angiotensin converting enzyme and AII receptors, suggests that there are a number of intra-ovarian sites at which AII could be produced.
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  • 42
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Chorionic gonadotropin ; Placental lactogen Placenta ; Cryoultrastructure ; Immunocytochemistry ; Human
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The sites of intracellular synthesis and storage of human placental lactogen (hPL) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) are controversial. We have used one of the most sensitive methods, cryoultramicrotomy and immunogold labelling, to localise these hormones at the electron-microscopic level. In both 12-week and term placentas hCG and hPL are present throughout the rough endoplasmic reticulum cisternae, in the Golgi bodies, and in the infrequent small dense granules of the syncytiotrophoblast. Previous assays have shown that hCG is at a higher concentration in early pregnancy and hPL peaks in late pregnancy, and our results corroborate these findings. No significant localisation of either hormone was seen in the cytotrophoblast or villous stroma. The results suggest that both hCG and hPL are synthesised and packaged by the classical secretory pathway, although the level of hormone stored in granules at any one time is small.
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  • 43
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 266 (1991), S. 247-258 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Monoclonal antibodies ; Immunocytochemistry ; Olfactory epithelium ; Respiratory epithelium ; Antigens ; (Rat Wistar) ; (Mouse BALB/c)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Two panels of monoclonal antibodies have been generated, each panel having a distinct specificity for antigens located in the ciliary zone of either the olfactory or respiratory epithelium of rats. Tissue specificity was confirmed in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays on membrane fractions from various tissues. During ontogeny, the expression of olfactory-specific antigens preceeds that of respiratory-specific antigens; this observation correlates with differences in the genesis of the respective cilia type and confirms that different molecular entities are recognized. A spatial segregation of immunoreactivity in the chemosensory epithelium was observed for one of the olfactory-specific monoclonal antibodies; negative zones were located in the dorsal recess of the nasal cavity and on the tips of the turbinates. Olfactory-specific antibodies reacted with distinct polypeptide bands on Western blots from olfactory ciliary preparations.
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  • 44
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 266 (1991), S. 359-364 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Neuropeptide ; Diuretic hormone ; Neurosecretion ; Manduca sexta, Eurema nicippe (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Separate antisera were raised to the N- and C-terminal half of the diuretic hormone from Manduca sexta. Antisera against the two halves of this peptide recognized the same cells in M. sexta, and preabsorption of the antisera with the peptides used as antigens abolished the immunoreactivity, confirming their specificity. The antisera reacted with two median neurosecretory cells on each side of the protocerebral groove in larvae, and with a group of about 80 small median neurosecretory cells in the adult, as well as their axons to, and their axon terminals in, the corpora cardiaca. During the early pupal stages, small cells, which are possibly derived from a common neuroblast, differentiate into immunoreactive neurosecretory cells, which explains the large increase in cell numbers in the adult. In the sleepy sulphur butterfly, Eurema nicippe, homologous median neurosecretory cells in the adult were immunoreactive with both antisera.
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  • 45
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 266 (1991), S. 343-357 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Pigment-dispersing hormone ; Orthopteroid insects ; Immunocytochemistry ; Insect brain ; Periplaneta americana, Schistocerca gregaria, Teleogryllus commodus (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary In a comparative study, the anatomy of neurons immunoreactive with an antiserum against the crustacean β-pigment-dispersing hormone was investigated in the brain of several orthopteroid insects including locusts, crickets, a cockroach, and a phasmid. In all species studied, three groups of neurons with somata in the optic lobes show pigment-dispersing hormone-like immunoreactivity. Additionally, in most species, the tritocerebrum exhibits weak immunoreactive staining originating from ascending fibers, tritocerebral cells, or neurons in the inferior protocerebrum. Two of the three cell groups in the optic lobe have somata at the dorsal and ventral posterior edge of the lamina. These neurons have dense ramifications in the lamina with processes extending into the first optic chiasma and into distal layers of the medulla. Pigment-dispersing hormone-immunoreactive neurons of the third group have somata near the anterior proximal margin of the medulla. These neurons were reconstructed in Schistocerca gregaria, Locusta migratoria, Teleogryllus commodus, Periplaneta americana, and Extatosoma tiaratum. The neurons have wide and divergent arborizations in the medulla, in the lamina, and in several regions of the midbrain, including the superior and inferior lateral protocerebrum and areas between the pedunculi and α-lobes of the mushroom bodies. Species-specific differences were found in this third cell group with regard to the number of immunoreactive cells, midbrain arborizations, and contralateral projections, which are especially prominent in the cockroach and virtually absent in crickets. The unusual branching patterns and the special neurochemical phenotype suggest a particular physiological role of these neurons. Their possible function as circadian pacemakers is discussed.
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  • 46
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 266 (1991), S. 385-389 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Amniotic epithelium ; Cytoskeleton ; Filaments ; α-Actinin ; Ezrin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Human
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The amniotic epithelium constitutes a diffusion barrier controlling the passage of solutes and water between the aminotic cavity and maternal circulation. With the present immunocytochemical approach, we have shown that several major components of the cytoskeleton, i.e., actin, α-actinin, spectrin and ezrin, are preferentially associated with the apical and lateral cell surfaces of the human amniotic epithelium. Keratins are distributed throughout the entire cytoplasm, whereas vimentin mainly forms a perinuclear scaffold. These findings indicate a role of the various components of the cytoskeleton in the structural integrity and modulation of cell shape and junctional permeability.
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  • 47
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): GRF ; Immunocytochemistry ; Brain ; Pituitary ; Hypothalamus ; Vasotocin ; Anguilla anguilla ; Carassus auratus (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary An antiserum to growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) 1-44 was applied on brain and pituitary sections of nine teleost species. Immunoreactive (ir) perikarya were demonstrated in parvo- and magnocellular portions of the preoptic nucleus (PON) and occasionally in the nucleus lateralis tuberis. The two tracts originating in the PON ran ventro-laterally toward the optic chiasm and then caudally in the basal hypothalamus. In the pars distalis (PD) of the eel, carp, goldfish and salmonids, GRF-ir fibers did not enter the rostral PD and few fibers passed close to somatotropes. In.Myoxocephalus andMugil, a variable number of ir-fibers passed close to cells of the rostral and proximal PD. In the neurointermediate lobe, GRF-ir fibers were located exclusively in the neural tissue of the eel and trout. In goldfish, carp andMyoxocephalus, GRF-ir fibers entered the intermediate lobe. This antiserum also labeled corticotrops and, to a lesser extent, melanotrops in the pituitary of cyprinids. A variable number of perikarya contained both GRF and vasotocin in the PON of the eel. In all teleost species studied so far, the distribution patterns of GRF are different, and the function of the various adenohypophysial cell types appears to be differently modulated, according to the variable distribution of GRF in the pituitary.
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  • 48
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Bombesin-like peptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Hypothalamus ; Neurosecretory ; Fibers ; Scyliorhinus canicula (Elasmobranchii)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The presence and distribution of bombesin-like material were investigated in the brain of the cartilaginous fishScyliorhinus canicula using conventional immunocytochemical techniques. Perikarya containing bombesin-like immunoreactivity were identified in the hypothalamus, within the magnocellular component of the preoptic nucleus. Some immunopositive elements appeared to be of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting type. Beaded immunoreactive fibers were seen crossing the ventral telencephalon and the whole hypothalamus. An important tract of fibers was found in the infundibular floor and in the median eminence, in close contact with the vascular system of the pituitary portal plexus. A moderate number of positive fibers innervated the habenular complex and the dorsal wall of the posterior tuberculum. These findings indicate that a neuropeptide strictly related to amphibian bombesin is located in specific hypothalamic neurons ofS. canicula. The distribution of the immunoreactive fibers and terminals suggests that, in fish, this peptide, may be involved in neuroendocrine and neuromodulator functions.
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  • 49
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Immunocytochemistry ; Development, ontogenetic ; Serotonin-like immunoreactivity ; identified neurons ; cerebral ganglion ; Tenebrio molitor (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Serotonin-immunoreactive neurons in the brain of Tenebrio molitor L. have been demonstrated and mapped throughout metamorphosis. Most serotonin-immunoreactive brain neurons persist throughout metamorphosis; their fate can be followed during development because of their characteristic cell body locations and arborization patterns. The detailed morphology of the persisting neurons, however, changes during metamorphosis, probably to accommodate architectural changes of the different brain centers. Serotonin-immunoreactivity in the optic lobes allows a subset of neurons that is newly differentiated during metamorphosis to be identified. Phylogenetic homology of serotonin-immunoreactive brain interneurons of different insect species is discussed. The serotonin-immunoreactive brain neurons comprise a phylogenetically conserved neuronal population. Serial homologous abdomino-thoracic and brain serotonin-immunoreactive neurons were characterized, allowing a comparison of some basic structural features of these neurons.
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  • 50
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons ; Paraventricular organ ; Posterior recess organ ; Somatostatin ; Serotonin ; Ultrastructure ; Immunocytochemistry ; Dogfish,Squalus acanthias skate,Raja radiata (Elasmobranchii)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The paraventricular organ (PVO) and the posterior recess organ (PRO) of two elasmobranch species, the spiny dogfish,Squalus acanthias, and the skate,Raja radiata, were investigated by use of scanning and transmission electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry employing a series of primary antisera. The PVO and PRO contained four types of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-contacting neurons. One type was free of secretory granules and projected a dendrite-like process into the ventricle. The other three types were distinguished according to the size of their secretory granules. The ventricular extensions of these cells were filled with secretory granules. By means of immunocytochemistry three types of CSF-contacting neurons were observed in the PVO and PRO. Type I contained only serotonin; type 2 displayed only somatostatin; type 3 was endowed with both serotonin and somatostatin. Type I dominated in the PRO, whereas type 3 was the most frequent in the PVO. The latter cells appear to be the site of origin of a loose tract formed by serotonin- and somatostatinimmunoreactive fibers projecting from the PVO into the neuropil of the PRO. Compact bundles formed exclusively by serotonin fibers were also shown to extend between the PVO and PRO. The basal processes of the CSF-contacting neurons of the PRO penetrated into the underlying neuropil. This neuropil is rich in synapses and can be regarded as an integrative area to which the basal processes of the local CSF-contacting neurons, serotonin and somatostatin fibers from the PVO, and fibers containing immunoreactive thyrotropin-releasing hormone of unknown origin, support a conspicuous input. The present findings indicate that the PVO and PRO of elasmobranchs are functionally integrated structures.
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  • 51
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Oxytocin ; Corpus luteum ; Luteinized cyst ; Immunocytochemistry ; Ewe (Romney Marsh)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Anoestrous Romney Marsh ewes with or without progesterone pretreatment were injected with multiple low-doses of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone followed by a single, larger bolus. Blood samples were taken at twelve-hourly intervals for progesterone radioimmunoassay. Ewes were slaughtered on day 3 or 5 after the bolus injection, and the ovaries were collected for histology and immunocytochemical examination for oxytocin-immunocreactivity. The corpora lutea of all ewes killed on day 3 had similar weights and morphology. The ovaries of those ewes which were not pretreated with progesterone also contained some luteinized cysts. Ewes slaughtered on day 5 were separated into 2 groups according to plasma progesterone profiles, which were either rising (‘normal’), or falling after a transitory rise (‘abnormal’). Those ewes pretreated with progesterone all had a ‘normal’ progesterone profile whereas, of 14 ewes not pretreated with progesterone, 6 were ‘normal’ and 8 ‘abnormal’. Corpora lutea were significantly lighter in the ‘abnormal’ group and the ovaries of most of these ewes also contained luteinized cysts. All corpora lutea and luteinised cysts showed staining for oxytocin-immunoreactivity although the staining intensity was variable. In corpora lutea from ‘normal’ ewes oxytocin was restricted to large luteal cells. In addition tissues from ‘abnormal’ ewes also contained many cells with an atypical elongated shape which stained for oxytocin-immunoreactivity. These results show that progesterone pretreatment is needed for both normal morphological and endocrine development of corpora lutea in anoestrous ewes stimulated with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone.
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  • 52
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 569-577 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Blastocyst ; Uterine proteins ; Uteroglobin ; Endocytosis ; Autoradiography ; Immunocytochemistry ; Acid phosphatase ; Rabbit
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Uptake of uteroglobin (UGL) by day-6 rabbit blastocysts and the intracellular fate of this protein were studied by light- and electron-microscopic autoradiography, immunocytochemistry and acid-phosphatase cytochemistry. UGL, labelled with N-succinimidyl-(2-3-3H)-propionate, was administered to embryos in vitro for 15 min to 4 h. The kinetics, determined from light-microscopic autoradiographs, showed a continuous uptake of the labeled protein over a 4-h period of incubation. At the ultrastructural level, increasing numbers of silver grains and an intense UGL immunoreaction in protein vacuoles and crystalloid bodies of trophoblast cells indicated that 3H-UGL had accumulated in these organelles. The presence of crystalloid inclusions in protein vacuoles suggests their origin by a condensation of the protein content, including UGL. Lysosomes containing radioactivity were rarely found, suggesting a very low degradation rate of the 3H-UGL. Protein vacuoles and crystalloid bodies exhibited no acid phosphatase reaction. The enzyme was mainly found outside the basal and lateral cell membranes of trophoblast cells, and on the rough endoplasmic reticulum of endoderm cells.
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  • 53
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 263 (1991), S. 541-548 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Proventriculus ; Endocrine secretory cells ; Secretory granules ; Peptide hormones ; Colocalization ; Immunocytochemistry ; Colloidal gold ; Chicken
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The endocrine cells of the chicken proventriculus were investigated immunocytochemically, using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique on paraffin and semithin sections for light microscopy, and immunogold staining in osmium-fixed material for electron microscopy. The fixation procedure also allowed a detailed ultrastructural investigation. Twenty-three antisera were tested and 7 immunoreactive cell-types were identified: D-cells containing somatostatin-like peptide; EG-cells immunoreactive to anti-glucagon, anti-GLP1 and antineurotensin; NT-cells labelled only with anti-neurotensin; BN-cells containing bombesin-like material; ENK-cells showing met-enkephalin immunoreactivity; EC-cells reactive to anti-serotonin; and APP-cells positive to anti-avian pancreatic polypeptide. In addition, enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, were also detected by electron microscopy. The presence of ENK-cells and the ultrastructure of these and NT-cells are described for the first time in chicken proventriculus, and glucagon, GLP1 and neurotensin are shown to be colocalized in the EG-cells.
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  • 54
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Neuroendocrine cells ; Intestine ; Chromogranin ; Serotonin ; Regulatory peptides ; Immunocytochemistry ; Podarcis hispanica (Reptilia, Lacertilia)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Numerous endocrine cells can be observed in the gut of the lizard Podarcis hispanica after application of the Grimelius silver nitrate technique. The argyrophilic endocrine cells are usually tall and thin in the small intestine but short, basal, and round in the large intestine. Eleven types of immunoreactive endocrine cells have been identified by immunocytochemical methods. Numerous serotonin-, caerulein/gastrin/cholecystokinin octapeptide-and peptide tyrosine-tyrosine-immunoreactive cells; a moderate number of pancreatic polypeptide-, neurotensin-, somatostatin-, glucagon-like peptide-1-and glucagon-immunoreactive cells, and few cholecystokinin N-terminal-and bombesin-immunoreactive cells were found in the epithelium of the small intestine. Coexistence of glucagon with GLP-1 or PP/PYY has been observed in some cells. In the large intestine a small number of serotonin-, peptide tyrosine-tyrosine-, pancreatic polypeptide-, neurotensin-, somatostatin-and glucagon-like peptide-1-immunoreactive cells were detected. Vasoactive intestinal peptide immunoreactivity was found in nerve fibers of the muscular layer. Substance P-immunoreactive nerve fibers were detected in lamina propria, submucosa and muscular layer. Chromogranin A-immunoreactive cells were observed throughout the intestine, although in lower numbers than argyrophilic cells.
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  • 55
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Gliobastoma multiforme ; Cell culture ; Glial fibrillary acidic protein ; Immunocytochemistry ; Cytogenetics ; Man
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Two human cell lines (GL15 and GL22) derived from glioblastoma multiforme were established and characterized by immunohistochemical and cytogenetic techniques. The expression of glial fibrillary acidic proteins and the karyotype were analyzed at different passages for both cell lines. The course of marker-pattern differed in the two cell lines. The main findings were a cell-density-dependent expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein in the cell line GL15 at all passages and a decreased expression of this protein over time in the cell line GL22. Both cell lines had hyperdiploid karyotypes and exhibited glioma-specific chromosomal abnormalities (gain of chromosome 7 and loss of chromosome 10). In the GL15 cell line no relevant chromosomal changes were produced during culturing, whereas in the GL22 cell line a hypodiploid clone appeared at the 42nd passage. The immunohistochemical and cytogenetic data resulting from this study confirm that the two cell lines established in our laboratory originated from astrocytic tumor cells.
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  • 56
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) ; Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) ; Immunocytochemistry ; Respiratory tract ; Autonomic innervation ; Mammals
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) is a vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-like peptide recently isolated from ovine hypothalami. Nerve fibers displaying PACAP immunoreactivity were found in the respiratory tract of rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, pigs, sheep and squirrel monkeys. A moderate supply of PACAP-immunoreactive fibers was seen in the nasal mucosa of guinea pigs. Few to moderate numbers of PACAP-containing fibers occurred in the tracheo-bronchial wall of rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, pigs, sheep and squirrel monkeys. The fibers were distributed beneath the epithelium, around blood vessels and seromucous glands, and among bundles of smooth muscle. In the lungs, the immunoreactive fibers were observed close to small bronchioli. A few PACAP-immunoreactive nerve cell bodies were seen in the sphenopalatine and otic ganglia of guinea pigs. Simultaneous double immunostaining of the respiratory tract of sheep and ferrets revealed that all PACAP-containing nerve fibers stored VIP. We suggest that neuronal PACAP may take part in the regulation of smooth muscle tone and glandular secretion.
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  • 57
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 307-315 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Brain, vertebrate ; Phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase ; Adrenaline ; Immunocytochemistry ; HPLC ; Rat (Wistar, Sprague-Dawley, Long Evans, Zucker)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Immunocytochemistry was used to compare the immunoreactivity of adrenergic neurons to a well characterized specific immunoserum to phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT) in different strains of rats commonly used in research studies. In adult animals, marked differences were found in the PNMT-immunoreactivity of neurons between Wistar rats and other strains, resulting in a lower PNMT-immunostaining intensity (i) within neuronal perikarya of the medulla oblongata, and (ii) more strikingly, within nerve fibers and terminals located in various brain regions. This low PNMT-immunoreactivity of nerve fibers was detected both in 14- and 35-day-old Wistar rats. On the other hand, the HPLC measurement of catecholamines, in particular of adrenaline in the hypothalamus and the medulla oblongata, did not show any difference between adult Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. These data suggest that the low PNMT-immunoreactivity observed in central adrenergic neurons of the Wistar rats is related to the poor recognition of the antigen by the PNMT-antibody used. Possibly, these nerve cells mainly display an isoform of the enzyme that is immunologically different from the PNMT contained within the adrenergic neurons of other rat strains.
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  • 58
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    Schlagwort(e): Pituitary gland ; Rathke's pouch ; Intermediate filaments ; Cytokeratins ; Development, ontogenetic ; Immunocytochemistry ; Human
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary An immunohistochemical study of the production of the intermediate filaments [vimentin, cytokeratin, and glial filament acidic protein (GFAP)] during development of the pituitary gland was made by use of fetal and adult human pituitary tissue. Among these intermediate filament proteins in the anterior and intermediate lobes of the pituitary, cytokeratin is the first to appear, followed by GFAP and vimentin. However, only cytokeratin is seen during the period of morphogenesis of the pituitary gland, with the type-II subfamily cytokeratin 8 being the earliest to appear. Among the simple-epithelial-type cytokeratins, cytokeratins 8 and 19 were observed within the pituitary primordium during morphogenesis. Cells immunoreactive for cytokeratins 8 and 19 showed a heterogeneous three-dimensional distribution pattern in Rathke's pouch. Both cytokeratins 8 and 19 tended to be strongly positive at sites in the pituitary primordium where cells had become more loosely arranged (i.e., areas far from the diencephalon) but were only weakly positive in areas in which the epithelial cells were densely packed (i.e., areas closely associated with the diencephalon). It is concluded that, during the period of morphogenesis, Rathke's pouch has the intermediate filaments characteristic of simple epithelium and shows different immunoreactivity for simple-epithelial-type cytokeratins from place to place according to the extent of cellular differentiation.
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  • 59
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    Schlagwort(e): Median eminence ; Catecholamines ; Neuropeptides ; Immunocytochemistry ; Double labeling ; Ultrastructure ; Triturus alpestris (Urodela)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Dopaminergic and peptidergic nerve fibers were simultaneously demonstrated with a double-labeling technique at the ultrastructural level. The first antibody, raised against tyrosine hydroxylase, was applied during the preembedding phase and visualized with the peroxidase method. The second antibody, raised against one of the peptides met-enkephalin, somatostatin or gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), was applied to the ultrathin sections and visualized with gold-labeled goat anti-rabbit IgG. The fibers of both categories were present in the zona externa of the median eminence, frequently contacting the basal lamina of the portal vessels. In addition, topographical relationships between different types of nerve fibers were observed in the perivascular areas, although there were no morphological signs of synaptic specializations. Using serial sections, it could be established that one GnRH-fiber contacted both a dopaminergic fiber and a fiber immunoreactive for met-enkephalin. The observations support earlier physiological data concerning the regulation of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal axis, with special emphasis on the release of neurohormones in the median eminence of the newt.
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  • 60
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    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 381-386 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Molluscan insulin-related peptide ; Neuropeptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Lymnaea stagnalis (Mollusca) ; Aplysia californica (Mollusca)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary the occurrence of insulin-related substances in the central nervous system of pulmonates and Aplysia californica was investigated by means of immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization. Previous experiments have shown that, in Lymnaea stagnalis, the growth hormone-producing neurons in the cerebral ganglia (the so-called light green cells) express at least 5 genes that are related to the vertebrate insulin genes, i.e., they encode prohormones that are composed of a B- and A-chain and a connecting C peptide. These insulin related molecules also have the amino acids essential for their tertiary structure (viz. cysteines) at identical positions to those of the vertebrate insulins. In the investigated basommatophoran and stylommatophoran snails and slugs, neurons reacted with an antiserum raised against the C peptide of one of the molluscan insulin-related peptides. These neurons can be considered to be, based on morphological and endocrinological criteria, homologous to the light green cells of L. stagnalis. In A. californica, all central ganglia contain immunoreactive neurons. The highest number (about 50) was observed in the abdominal ganglion. The present results indicate that insulin-related substances are generally occurring neuropeptides in the central nervous system of molluscs.
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  • 61
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    Schlagwort(e): Clotting factors ; Antimicrobial substances ; Hemocytes ; Immunocytochemistry ; Tachypleus tridentatus (Chelicerata)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The structure of hemocytes in the normal state and during blood coagulation, and the intracellular localization of three clotting factors and two antimicrobial factors were examined in the Japanese horseshoe crabTachypleus tridentatus. Two types of hemocytes were found in the circulating blood: non-granular and granular hemocytes. The latter contained numerous dense granules classed into two major types: L- and D-granules. The L-granules were larger (up to 1.5 μm in diameter) and less electron-dense than the D-granules (less than 0.6 μm in diameter). The L-granules contained three clotting factors and one antimicrobial factor, whereas the D-granules exclusively contained the other antimicrobial factor. After treatment with endotoxin, the L-granules were released more rapidly than the D-granules, although almost all granules were finally exocytosed. The granular hemocyte possessed a single Golgi complex; possible precursor granules of L-granules and D-granules contained tubular and condensed dense material, respectively. These data are discussed in relation to the self-defense mechanisms of the horseshoe crab.
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  • 62
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    Schlagwort(e): Gonadotropin ; Gonadotropin subunits ; Gonadotropes ; In situ hybridization ; Immunocytochemistry ; Pituitary gland, pars distalis ; Oogenesis ; Oncorhynchus mykiss (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Biosynthesis of salmon gonadotropins, GTH I and GTH II, during ovarian development, were examined by means of in situ hybridization histochemistry and indirect immunocytochemistry. In rainbow trout pituitary glands, expression of GTH Iβ- and IIβ-subunit genes appeared separately in distinct cells (GTH I- and GTH II-cells), whereas the GTH α-subunit gene was expressed in both cell-types. In the GTH I-cells, coordinated increases in GTh, α and Iβ messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNAs) occurred coincident with the onset of vitellogenesis, indicating active synthesis of GTH I during vitellogenesis. In contrast, in the GTH II-cells, both GTH α-and IIβ-mRNA signals markedly increased from a later stage of vitellogenesis and persisted throughout oocyte maturation and ovulation, supporting the idea that GTH II is actively synthesized as a maturational GTH. GTH α-mRNA levels in the GTH I-cells selectively decreased prior to final oocyte maturation, although Iβ-mRNA levels remained elevated, thus suggesting a decline of biosynthesis of GTH I after vitellogenesis. These findings clarify how the synthesis of GTH I and GTH II are coordinated in the piscine pituitary, and indicate that the expression of GTH subunit genes during gametogenesis is regulated differentially in a cell-specific manner, both temporally and spatially.
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  • 63
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    Schlagwort(e): Visual system ; Neuropeptides ; Serotonin ; Pigment-dispersing hormone ; Immunocytochemistry ; Neuromodulators ; Phormia terraenovae (Insecta) ; Leucophaea maderae (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The pigment-dispersing hormone (PDH) family of neuropeptides comprises a series of closely related octadecapeptides, isolated from different species of crustaceans and insects, which can be demonstrated immunocytochemically in neurons in the central nervous system and optic lobes of some representatives of these groups (Rao and Riehm 1989). In this investigation we have extended these immunocytochemical studies to include the blowfly Phormia terraenovae and the cockroach Leucophaea maderae. In the former species tissue extracts were also tested in a bioassay: extracts of blowfly brains exhibited PDH-like biological activity, causing melanophore pigment dispersion in destalked (eyestalkless) specimens of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator. Using standard immunocytochemical techniques, we could demonstrate a small number of pigment-dispersing hormone-immunoreactive (PDH-IR) neurons innervating optic lobe neuropil in the blowfly and the cockroach. In the blowfly the cell bodies of these neurons are located at the anterior base of the medulla. At least eight PDH-IR cell bodies of two size classes can be distinguished: 4 larger and 4 smaller. Branching immunoreactive fibers invade three layers in the medulla neuropil, and one stratum distal and one proximal to the lamina synaptic layer. A few fibers can also be seen invading the basal lobula and the lobula plate. The fibers distal to the lamina appear to be derived from two of the large PDH-IR cell bodies which also send processes into the medulla. These neurons share many features in their laminamedulla morphology with the serotonin immunoreactive neurons LBO-5HT described earlier (see Nässel 1988). It could be demonstrated by immunocytochemical double labeling that the serotonin and PDH immunoreactivities are located in two separate sets of neurons. In the cockroach optic lobe PDH-IR processes were found to invade the lamina synaptic region and form a diffuse distribution in the medulla. The numerous cell bodies of the lamina-medulla cells in the cockroach are located basal to the lamina in two clusters. Additional PDH-IR cell bodies could be found at the anterior base of the medulla. The distribution and morphology of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons in the cockroach lamina was found to be very similar to the PDH-IR ones. It is hence tempting to speculate that in both species the PDH-and serotonin-immunoreactive neurons are functionally coupled with common follower neurons. These neurons may be candidates for regulating large numbers of units in the visual system. In the flies photoreceptor properties may be regulated by action of the two set of neurons at sites peripheral to the lamina synaptic layer, possibly by paracrine release of messengers.
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  • 64
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 105-113 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Subcommissural organ ; Lectin histochemistry ; Immunocytochemistry ; Glycoproteins ; Human fetuses ; Bovine
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The subcommissural organ (SCO) of 7 human fetuses, 3 to 6.5 months old, was investigated by means of: (i) immunocytochemistry employing three different antisera against secretory products extracted from the bovine SCO and Reissner's fiber; (ii) lectin binding using concanavalin A (Con A; affinity: mannose, glucose), wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA; affinity: N-acetyl-glucosamine, sialic acid), and Limax flavus agglutinin (LFA; affinity: sialic acid). Sections of bovine SCO were processed simultaneously and examined for comparative purposes. The human fetal SCO displayed lectin-binding properties identical to those in the SCO of other mammals. Thus, Con-A-binding sites were restricted to abundant supranuclear structures that most likely corresponded to the rough endoplasmic reticulum, but were missing from granules located in the apical cytoplasm. The latter secretory material was strongly WGA- and LFA-positive and formed a distinct zone in the most apical portion of the ependymal cells. In contrast, this type of reactivity was missing in the adjacent cells of ependyma proper. In the bovine SCO, LFA-positive granules were also aggregated in an apical layer. The secretory material in the bovine SCO, especially its apical granular component, was strongly immunoreactive with the three antisera used; the human fetal SCO, however, lacked this immunoreactivity. It is postulated that the SCO of human fetuses secretes glycoproteins with a carbohydrate chain similar to-and a protein backbone different from-the secretions elaborated by the SCO of other vertebrate species.
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  • 65
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    Schlagwort(e): Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) ; Immunocytochemistry ; Arginine vasotocin (AVT) ; Mesotocin (MST) ; Co-localization ; Natrix maura (Serpentes)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The anatomical distribution of neurons and nerve fibers containing corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) has been studied in the brain of the snake, Natrix maura, by means of immunocytochemistry using an antiserum against rat CRF. To test the possible coexistence of CRF with the neurohypophysial peptides arginine vasotocin (AVT) and mesotocin (MST) adjacent sections were stained with antisera against the two latter peptides. CRF-immunoreactive (CRF-IR) neurons exist in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN). In some neurons of the PVN, coexistence of CRF with MST or of CRF with AVT has been shown. Numerous CRF-IR fibers run along the hypothalamo-hypophysial tract and end in the outer layer of the median eminence. In addition, some fibers reach the neural lobe of the hypophysis. CRF-IR perikarya have also been identified in the following locations: dorsal cortex, nucleus accumbens, amygdala, subfornical organ, lamina terminalis, nucleus of the paraventricular organ, nucleus of the oculomotor nerve, nucleus of the trigeminal nerve, and reticular formation. In addition to all these locations CRF-IR fibers were also observed in the lateral septum, supraoptic nucleus, habenula, lateral forebrain bundle, paraventricular organ, hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus, raphe and interpeduncular nuclei.
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  • 66
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    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 431-434 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Actin ; Cytoskeleton ; Immunocytochemistry ; Photoreceptor cells ; Drosophila melanogaster (Insecta)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The Drosophila ninaC mutation produces small rhabdomeres with the axial filament of the microvillar cytoskeleton reduced or missing. Using post-embedding immunogold labelling of LR White-embedded eyes, we show that several alleles of this mutation retain positive anti-actin immunoreactivity in the rhabdomeres, comparable to that of wild-type flies.
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  • 67
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    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 461-466 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Secretion ; Plasmalemma ; Membrane dynamics ; Immunocytochemistry ; Freeze-fracturing ; Rat (Wistar)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The movements of the molecular components of the luminal plasma membrane during exocytotic secretion in parotid acinar cells were examined. For immunocytochemical study, we used an antiserum of dipeptidyl peptidase IV as a marker for the components of the luminal plasma membrane of acinar cells. In unstimulated acinar cells, dipeptidyl peptidase IV immunoreactivity is restricted to the luminal plasma membrane. However, after secretion was stimulated with a β-adrenergic agonist, isoproterenol, immunostaining became detectable on the membrane of discharged granules. Freeze-fracture images showed that the density of intramembrane particles on the P-fracture leaflets of discharged granule membranes is much higher than that of undischarged granule membranes during secretion. These results suggest that in parotid acinar cells of the rat, the components of the luminal plasma membrane move laterally, during secretion, to the membranes of discharged granules.
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  • 68
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    Schlagwort(e): Serotonin (5-HT) ; Substance P ; GABA ; Immunocytochemistry ; Invertebrate peripheral nervous system ; Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mollusca)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Immunocytochemical methods were applied to study the distribution of putative neurotransmitters (5-HT, substance P, GABA, glutamate and aspartate) in the nerve plexuses of the foot and the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mollusca, Bivalvia). The foot presents extensive nerve plexuses containing 5-HT and substance P-like immunoreactive material with a similar distribution beneath the surface epithelium, around the vessels and in the glandular regions. Coexistence of the two putative neurotransmitters was observed in a few nerve fibers, Conversely, muscle fibers, both in the foot and in the ABRM, are innervated only by 5-HT-positive fibers, while substance P-like material is present only in the networks of the ABRM epimysial sheath. Immunoreactivity for glutamate and aspartate was not demonstrated, while rare GABA-positive nerve cells and fibers were found only in the foot. The results of this investigation provide a morphological background to previous physiological studies on 5-HT in the nervous system of bivalve molluscs. Moreover, they confirm that the nervous system of Mytilus contains a remarkable amount of a substance related to the vertebrate tachykinin family.
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  • 69
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    Cell & tissue research 261 (1990), S. 517-524 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Adrenal cortex ; Adrenal medulla ; Somatostatin immunoreactivity ; Immunocytochemistry ; Hybridization, in situ ; Rat
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Previous studies have shown that somatostatin modulates angiotensin-induced aldosterone secretion by adrenal glomerulosa cells. This effect is mediated through specific receptors which do not show any preference for somatostatin-14 (S14) or the N-extended form somatostatin-28 (S28). The study of the distribution of 125I-Tyr [Tyr0, DTrp8] S14-and 125I-Tyr[Leu8, DTrp22, Tyr25] S28-binding in frozen sections of the rat adrenal by autoradiography indicated that both peptides bind to similar loci. High concentrations of binding sites were observed in the zona glomerulosa, and low concentrations were detected in the medulla. At the ultrastructural level, immunocytochemistry after cryoultramicrotomy revealed endogenous S14-and S28-like immunoreactive material in zona glomerulosa and in medulla. In glomerulosa cells, immunoreactive material was localized at the plasma membrane level, in the cytoplasmic matrix, in the mitochondria, and in the nucleus. S14-and S28-like materials were detected in both epinephrine and norepinephrine-storing cells of the adrenal medulla. In these cells, the distribution of either immunoreactive product was similar; it was observed in cytoplasmic matrix, secretory granules and nucleus, but not at the plasma membrane level. In situ hybridization does not reveal somatostatin mRNA in zona glomerulosa or medulla. These results demonstrate that S14 and S28 bind to, and are taken up by zona glomerulosa and adrenal medullary cells, but are not produced by these cells.
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  • 70
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    Schlagwort(e): Neuropeptides (pancreatic polypeptide, peptide YY, neuropeptide Y) ; Immunocytochemistry ; Confocal scanning laser microscopy ; Schistosoma mansoni (Scolecida, Trematoda)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The presence and distribution of neuropeptides belonging to the pancreatic polypeptide family have been demonstrated by an indirect immunofluorescence technique in the nervous systems of adult male and female Schistosoma mansoni. Seven antisera of differing regional specificity to pancreatic polypeptide (PP), peptide YY (PYY) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) were employed on both whole-mount and cryostat-sectioned material. Positive immunoreactivity (IR) was obtained with all antisera except an N-terminally-directed antiserum to NPY. In the CNS, immunoreactivity was restricted to cell bodies and nerve fibres in the anterior ganglia, central commissure and dorsal and ventral nerve cords of both sexes, whereas, in the PNS, positive-IR was present in the plexuses innervating the subtegumental musculature and the oral and ventral suckers. Intense immunoreactivity was observed in a plexus of nerve fibres and cell bodies in the lining of the gynaecophoric canal and in fine nerve fibres innervating the dorsal tubercles of the male. In contrast, in the female, strong immunoreactivity was evident in nerve plexuses innervating the lining of the ovovitelline duct and in the wall of the ootype, but most notably in a cluster of cells in the region of Mehlis' gland. Results suggest that molecules with C-terminal homology to the PP-family are present in S. mansoni. These peptides would appear to be important regulatory molecules in the parasite's nervous system and may play a role in the control of egg production.
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  • 71
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Subcommissural organ ; Secretory pathway ; C1B8A8 monoclonal antibody ; Immunocytochemistry ; Immunoaffinity chromatography ; Bovine
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The secretory pathway of the complex-type glycoprotein specific to the subcommissural organ (SCO) was examined using the monoclonal antibody (Mab) C1B8A8. Immunoreactive material was revealed in various compartments of the secretory ependymocyte, i.e., the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi area and the secretory vacuoles. In addition, immunoreactive material was also observed in the ventricular cavity. Evidence of a release both at the apical lining and at the basal process of the SCO ependymocytes suggests that the same protein could be secreted into the cerebrospinal fluid and the perivascular spaces. After immunoaffinity chromatography of soluble extracts of the SCO on Mab C1B8A8 immunoadsorbent columns, three glycopeptides were identified on Western blots; they were concanavalin A (Con A)-positive (88, 54 and 34 kDa) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA)-positive (54 and 34 kDa). The Con A-positive glycopeptide (88 kDa) is probably related to the high-mannose-type glycoprotein, the precursor form of the secreted compound, whereas the 54 kDa-glycopeptide that is both Con A- and WGA-positive could represent an intermediate form. The 34 kDa-glycopeptide that is strongly WGA-positive could be related to the monomeric form of the secreted compound. These three glycopeptides were not revealed in eluted fractions of soluble extracts of the ependyma that served as control.
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  • 72
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 115-123 
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    Schlagwort(e): ACTH ; Immunocytochemistry ; Brain ; Hypothalamus ; Corticotropin-releasing factor ; Pituitary ; Carassius auratus, Salmo fario, Anguilla anguilla (Teleostei)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Immunostaining of brain and pituitary sections of three teleost species (goldfish, trout and eel) with antisera to porcine and human ACTH 1–39 revealed the presence of an ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone)-like peptide in the ventral hypothalamus. Perikarya were localized in the rostral, median and posterior portions of the nucleus lateralis tuberis (NLT); some were in contact with the cerebrospinal fluid. A dense network of immunoreactive (ir) fibers occurred in the peri-infundibular region and extended into the periventricular tissue, around the lateral and posterior recesses. Rostrally directed ir-fibers reached the telencephalon either ventrally or mediodorsally; some were observed in the olfactory lobe. In the mesencephalon, ir-fibers penetrated into the optic tectum of the goldfish. In the pituitary, both antisera intensely labeled rostral ACTH cells. Small groups of labeled cells were scattered in the rostral pars distalis and the proximal pars distalis. A gradient of activity was evident among ACTH cells: those located along the rostral neurohypophysis containing corticotropin-releasing factor nerve terminals were larger and often more marked than those farther away from the neural tissue. ACTH-like peptide in the brain may act as a neuromodulator, mainly in the NLT and the preoptic nucleus, and around the nuclei of the ventricular recesses containing serotonin and catecholamines.
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  • 73
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    Cell & tissue research 263 (1991), S. 71-79 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Aromatase ; Immunocytochemistry ; Brain aromatase ; Preoptic area ; Hypothalamus ; Mouse
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of aromatase-immunoreactive cells was studied by immunocytochemistry in the mouse forebrain using a purified polyclonal antibody raised against human placental aromatase. Labeled perikarya were found in the dorso-lateral parts of the medial and tuberal hypothalamus. Positive cells filled an area extending between the subincertal nucleus in the dorsal part, the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus in the ventral part, and the internal capsule and the magnocellular nucleus of the lateral hypothalamus in the lateral part. The same distribution was seen in the two strains of mice that were studied (Jackson and Swiss), and the number of immunoreactive perikarya did not seem to be affected by castration or testosterone treatment. No immunoreactivity could be detected in the medial regions of the preoptic area and hypothalamus; these were expected to contain the enzyme based on assays of aromatase activity performed in rats and on indirect autoradiographic evidence in mice. Our data raise questions concerning the distribution of aromatase in the brain and the mode of action of the centrally produced estrogens.
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  • 74
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    Cell & tissue research 263 (1991), S. 195-198 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Pancreas, endocrine ; Islets of Langerhans ; Immunocytochemistry ; Endocrine cells four types ; Electron microscopy ; Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Marsupialia)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The endocrine pancreas of the Australian fattailed dunnart, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, was investigated by means of electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry using the protein A-gold technique on London resin (LR) white-embedded tissue. The primary antibodies used were raised against insulin, glucagon, somatostatin and pancreatic polypeptide. The morphology of the secretory granules differed in the four cell types. The insulin cells are pleomorphic, and the secretory granules composed of an electron-dense core surrounded by an electron-lucen halo. The glucago cells possess granules with an electron-dense core usually surrounded by a halo of less dense granular material. Somatostatin cells have large, less dense secretory granules. The pancreatic polypeptide cells show small, dense secretory granules. In order for an ultrastructural study to be considered reliable for the definite identification of endocrine cell types, it is essential that it be corroborated by immunocytochemical data at the light-or preferably electron-microscopic level. Recent developments in immuno-electron-microscopic techniques have contributed to a better knowledge of cells responsible for the secretion of a wide variety of hormones, as in this study.
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  • 75
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    Schlagwort(e): Pineal organ ; Epithalamus ; Pinealocytes ; Hydroxyindole O-methyltransferase (HIOMT) ; Immunocytochemistry ; HIOMT-mRNA ; In-situ hybridization ; Bovine
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Hydroxyindole O-methyltransferase (HIOMT)-immunoreactive cells and melatonin synthesis were demonstrated in bovine epithalamus (including the pineal gland) with monoclonal antibodies and cRNA probes to HIOMT. The HIOMT-immunoreactive product was present in the cytoplasm of pinealocytes. All identifiable pinealocytes were clearly labeled in the pineal gland. The expression of the HIOMT gene was first identified in pinealocyte cytoplasm by in-situ hybridization (ISH). The distribution of the hybridization-positive cells in the pineal gland was compatible with that revealed by immunocytochemistry using the monoclonal antibody to HIOMT. In addition, HIOMT transcripts were found in the medial habenular nucleus, and the habenular and posterior commissure; they may correspond to S-antigen-immunoreactive cells demonstrated in the same regions of the hamster and the mouse. In these regions, the hybridization-positive cells did not exhibit HIOMT-immunoreactivity; thus, cells devoid of immunoreactivity may synthesize but rapidly transport the newly synthesized proteins. These results indicate (1) that the conversion of N-acetylserotonin into melatonin takes place in the cytoplasm of pinealocytes, (2) that some epithalamic cells in the habenular area may synthesize melatonin, and (3) that melatonin may act as a chemical messenger in centrally directed processes, as shown by using S-antigen immunocytochemistry.
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  • 76
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    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 264 (1991), S. 321-328 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Tooth pulp ; NGF receptor ; Calcitonin gene-related peptide ; Substance P ; Neuropeptide Y ; Immunocytochemistry ; Electron microscopy ; Cat
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of nerve growth factor receptor (NGF receptor)-like immunoreactivity in pulps of developing primary and mature permanent cat canine teeth was examined, by use of a monoclonal antibody against NGF receptor detected by fluorescence immunohistochemistry and pre-embedding immunocytochemical light- and electron microscopy. Both primary and permanent pulps contained a vast number of NGF receptor-like immunoreactive nerves. Immunolabelling appeared to be localized both to axons and Schwann cells. In addition, many blood vessel walls in immature primary tooth pulps showed NGF receptor-like immunoreactivity, in contrast to permanent pulps where blood vessels rarely were NGF receptor-immunoreactive. Double-labelling immunofluorescence experiments revealed that in the permanent pulp a majority of the NGF receptor-positive nerves also showed calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity, and many showed substance P-like immunoreactivity. However, nerve fibers with neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity lacked NGF receptor-like immunoreactivity. In developing primary tooth pulps fewer NGF receptor-positive nerves were CGRP-like immunoreactive or substance P-like immunoreactive, as compared to the permanent pulp. Neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactive nerve fibers were not detected in the primary tooth pulp. The results suggest a role for nerve growth factor in both developing and mature sensory nerves of the tooth pulp.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 77
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 264 (1991), S. 357-362 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Serotonin ; Immunocytochemistry ; Olfactory interneurons ; Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Munida sarsi, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Crustacea)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary An antiserum raised against serotonin (5HT) was applied to the brains of representatives of four different infraorders of decapod crustaceans, and revealed two morphological classes of olfactory interneurons. They were classified by the position and size of their cell bodies, and by their connection pattern. One class consisted of giant olfactory interneurons and the other of globuli cells. They were regarded as input and intrinsic interneurons, respectively, because of their morphology. The two classes displayed a similar pattern in two of the infraorders, whereas only one class appeared in the other two infraorders.
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  • 78
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Inhibin ; LH ; FSH ; Pituitary gland, pars anterior ; Immunocytochemistry ; Maccaca fascicularis, Macaca mulatta (Primates)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Inhibin-like immunoreactivity was detected by immunocytochemistry in the pituitaries of untreated male crab-eating macaques (cynomolgus monkey) and rhesus monkeys, in rhesus monkeys actively immunized against FSH, and in one orchidectomized crab-cating macaque. Localizations were performed by the immunogold-silver staining with 5-nm colloidal gold-conjugated second or third antibodies and by the alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline-phosphatase technique. Two different inhibin-specific antisera, raised against the α-subunit or the entire inhibin molecule, provided identical staining patterns. Positive label was confined to the pars distalis of the pituitary and occurred exclusively in the cytoplasm of morphologically different cell types throughout the pars distalis in all pituitaries. Staining was most prominent in clusters of chromophobic cells. The presence of inhibin-like activity in the pituitary of an orchidectomized monkey with undetectable serum inhibin levels suggests that inhibin is produced within the pituitary gland. Co-localization studies for the β-subunits of the gonadotropic hormones revealed that on average 82% of the gonadotropes were bihormonal. Using the same protocol, co-localization of inhibin-like activity with gonadotropin-like immunoreactivity revealed only a small degree of common distribution (〈15%). Inhibinpositive cells were frequently in close proximity to gonadotropic cells and, thus, paracrine effects of inhibin on gonadotropin-synthesizing cells are conceivable.
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    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 79
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): Neuropeptide Y (NPY) ; Immunocytochemistry ; Avian brain ; Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary In the present study, we have demonstrated, by means of the biotin-avidin method, the widespread distribution of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-immunoreactive structures throughout the whole brain of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). The prosencephalic region contained the highest concentration of both NPY-containing fibres and perikarya. Immunoreactive fibres were observed throughout, particularly within the paraolfactory lobe, the lateral septum, the nucleus taeniae, the preoptic area, the periventricular hypothalamic regions, the tuberal complex, and the ventrolateral thalamus. NPY-immunoreactive cells were represented by: a) small scattered perikarya in the telencephalic portion (i.e. archistriatal, neostriatal and hyperstriatal regions, hippocampus, piriform cortex); b) medium-sized cell bodies located around the nucleus rotundus, ventrolateral, and lateral anterior thalamic nuclei; c) small clustered cells within the periventricular and medial preoptic nuclei. The brainstem showed a less diffuse innervation, although a dense network of immunopositive fibres was observed within the optic tectum, the periaqueductal region, and the Edinger-Westphal, linearis caudalis and raphes nuclei. Two populations of large NPY-containing perikarya were detected: one located in the isthmic region, the other at the boundaries of the pons with the medulla. The wide distribution of NPY-immunoreactive structures within regions that have been demonstrated to play a role in the control of vegetative, endocrine and sensory activities suggests that, in birds, this neuropeptide is involved in the regulation of several aspects of cerebral functions.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 80
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Cell & tissue research 265 (1991), S. 243-250 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Schlagwort(e): FMRFamide ; Brain, vertebrate ; Hypothalamus ; Pituitary gland, pars intermedia ; Nervus terminalis ; Immunocytochemistry ; Scyliorhinus torazame (Elasmobranchii)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The distribution of the molluscan cardioexcitatory tetrapeptide FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2) in the brain of the cloudy dogfish, Scyliorhinus torazame, was examined by immunocytochemistry. FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity was demonstrated to occur extensively in various regions of the dogfish brain, except for the corpus cerebelli. Immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were located in the ganglion of the nervus terminalis, the preoptic area, and the hypothalamic periventricular gray matter consisting of the nucleus medius hypothalamicus, the nucleus lateralis tuberis, and the nucleus lobi lateralis. some of the immunoreactive cells in the hypothalamus were identified as cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons. The bulk of the immunostained fibers in the nervus terminalis penetrated into the midventral portion of the telencephalon and ran dorsocaudally toward the basal telencephalon and hypothalamus, showing radial projections or ramifications. The labeled fibers were abundant in the midbasal part of the telencephalon and in the hypothalamus, where some fibers were found in loose networks around the cell bodies of the nucleus septi and hypothalamic periventricular nuclei. The fibers demonstrated in the hypothalamus terminated around the vascular wall of the primary capillary plexus of the median eminence or penetrated deeply into the pars intermedia of the hypophysis. These results suggest that, in the dogfish, an FMRFamide-like substance participates in the regulation of adenohypophysial function. This molecule may have a role as a neurotransmitter and/or neuromodulator in the central nervous system.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 81
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Protoplasma 163 (1991), S. 199-202 
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Actin ; Freeze substitution ; Fungi ; Hyphal tip ; Immunocytochemistry ; Magnaporthe grisea
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We have successfully localized fungal actin for the first time using immuno-electron microscopy and hyphal tips of the rice blast pathogenMagnaporthe grisea. Following ultrarapid freezing, samples were processed in a novel substitution fluid of 10% acrolein in anhydrous ethanol and embedded in LR White resin. A monoclonal anti-actin antibody, previously shown to recognizeM. grisea actin, bound specifically to filasomes concentrated in the peripheral cytoplasm of subapical regions, and to the core-region of the Spitzenkörper.
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    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 82
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Protoplasma 158 (1990), S. 109-120 
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Differentiation ; Immunocytochemistry ; [3H]T-autoradiography ; Stem cells ; Turbellaria
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary A combination of microscopical, immunocytochemical, and autoradiographic techniques were employed to study stem cells and their fates during asexual reproduction and regeneration in two microturbellarians,Microstomum lineare (Macrostomida) andStenostomum leucops (Catenulida). Special attention was paid to the development of the immunoreactivity (IR) to FMRF/RF-amide and 5-HT in differentiating nerve cells. Asexual reproduction inM. lineare andS. leucops occurs by paratomy, i.e., fragmentation after completed differentiation of the new organs. Regeneration, on the other hand, involves a combination of morphallactic and epimorphic processes without the formation of a regeneration blastema. The only cells incorporating tritiated thymidine ([3H]T) were the mesenchymal and gastrodermal neoblasts, which proliferate continuously replenishing the population of stem cells available for growth, asexual reproduction and regeneration. These proliferative cells occurred in two ultrastructurally different forms, differing from each other only by the presence or absence of ciliar basal bodies in the cytoplasm. Few differentiated cells were labeled in the head piece after completed regeneration. A greater amount of labeled differentiated cells were, however, observed postpharyngeally in the first zooid as well as in zooids having developed during the same time (i.e., 20–45 h after the treatment with [3H]T). Furthermore, many labeled cells were still undifferentiated at that time or just in the beginning of the differentiation process. It can therefore be concluded that neoblasts function both as reserve cells and as functional stem cells for all differentiated cell types in these worms. IR to FMRF/RF-amide neuropeptides was not observed in nerve cells differentiating from neoblasts until the occurrence of dense-core vesicles in their cytoplasm. Due to methodological difficulties only weak or no IR to 5-HT could be traced in the nervous system of the asexual and regenerating worms.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 83
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Chlamydomonas ; Cryofixation ; Freeze-substitution ; Immunocytochemistry ; Nuclear proteins ; Nucleus
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We describe the preparation of monoclonal antibodies to nuclear antigens in the green alga,Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and their localization at the light and electron microscope level. Supernatants from hybridomas were screened by the ELISA method and the four antibodies giving the strongest signal were subjected to further analysis. At the LM level immunogold silver staining was used on semi-thick resinless sections. We have examined at the EM level the distribution of these antigens by post-embedding immunocytochemical techniques on sections of conventionally fixed specimens compared to cryofixed and freeze-substituted ones. Enhanced ultrastructural preservation was observed in cells which were cryofixed, freeze-substituted and embedded at −35°C in Lowicryl K4M. Different preparative procedures involving cryofixation and substitution are described. Of the four antibodies three were localized under light and electron microscopy. All three were distributed in the interchromatin space. One of these antigens (QUL4D2, 54 kDa) is also found in the dense fibrillar component and fibrillar centers of the nucleolus.
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    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 84
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): α-Amylase isozymes ; Barley aleurone ; Endoplasmic reticulum ; Golgi apparatus ; Immunocytochemistry ; Intracellular transport
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The localization of α-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) in barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Himalaya) aleurone protoplasts was studied using electron microscope immunocytochemistry. Antibodies were raised against total barley α-amylase, i.e., α-amylase containing both highisoelectric point (high-pI) and low-pI isoforms, as well as against purified high- and low-pI isoforms. All antibodies localized α-amylase to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus (GApp) of the aleurone cell, and various controls showed that the labeling was specific for α-amylase. Labeling of protein bodies and spherosomes, which are the most abundant organelles in this cell, was very low. There was no evidence that α-amylase isoforms were differentially distributed within different compartments of the endomembrane system. Rather, both high- and low-pI isoforms showed the same pattern of distribution in ER and in the cis, medial, and transregions of the GApp. We conclude that in the Himalaya cultivar of barley, all isoforms of α-amylase are transported to the plasma membrane via the GApp.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 85
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Polygalacturonan ; Pectin ; Methyl esterification ; Extracellular matrix ; Frankia ; Ceanothus ; Root nodule ; Immunocytochemistry
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary During early stages of nodule development inCeanothus spp., theFrankia infection pathway is characterized by a distinctive host-derived extracellular matrix. In the present study, a major component of the host interface is shown to consist of pectic polysaccharides. The distribution of these pectic polysaccharides in developing nodules has been delineated in root and nodule tissue. The levels of polygalacturonic acid detected were extremely high in the root mucilage and in the intercellular infection matrix in the root cortex, as detected by indirect immunogold localization with an antibody, and with fluorescein-conjugated alginate and pectate probes. Polygalacturonans in the intercellular matrix and in nodule tissue were predominantly esterified. The non-esterified polygalacturonans were located in cell junctions. Within the infected nodule cortical cells, (poly)galacturonate content of the interfacial encapsulation surrounding theFrankia endosymbiont was very high, while the cell walls were not labeled above background, suggesting that the encapsulation is a specialized wall layer.
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    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 86
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
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    Protoplasma 162 (1991), S. 38-45 
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Green algae ; Immunocytochemistry ; Pyrenoid ; RuBisCo ; RuBisCo activase
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary RuBisCo activase catalyzes the activation and maintains the activated state of the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCo, EC 4.1.1.39). We employed antisera prepared against the RuBisCo holoenzyme purified from tobacco and RuBisCo activase isolated from spinach to determine the localization of these proteins in leaves of C3-type higher plants and green algae. In leaves ofVicia faba, both RuBisCo activase and RuBisCo are distributed throughout the chloroplast stroma. In contrast, RuBisCo activase and RuBisCo are predominantly localized to the pyrenoid in the green algaeChlamydomonas reinhardtii andColeochaete scutata. The co-immunolocalization of RuBisCo activase and RuBisCo to the pyrenoid in these two green algal species suggests that pyrenoid-localized RuBisCo is catalytically competent. We conclude that the pyrenoid functions as a unique metabolic compartment of the chloroplast in which the reactions of the photosynthetic carbon reduction pathway are initiated.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 87
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    Digitale Medien
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    Journal of comparative physiology 160 (1990), S. 119-126 
    ISSN: 1432-136X
    Schlagwort(e): Atrial natriuretic peptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Radioimmunoassay ; Hypotension ; Anguilla japonica
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Cardiocytes positive for human atrial natriurectic peptide (hANP) were identified histochemically in the eel atrium, but they were not found in the ventricule. Secretory granules were frequently observed in atrial cardiocytes by electron microscopy, but the number of such granules was quite small in the ventricle. Immunogold cytochemistry revealed that immunoreactive ANP (IR-ANP) in atrial cardiocytes was localized in these granules. In spite of poor immunostaining of the eel ventricle, an acid extract of the ventricle contained 25±4 ng·g tissue-1 (n=9) of IR-ANP when the level of IR-ANP was measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) for hANP. This level was one eight of that measured in atrial extracts (203±13 ng·g tissue-1, n=9). Plasma contained 116.7±18.6 pg·ml-1 (n=9) of IR-ANP. An extract of eel hearts decreased arterial pressure in eels and quail as did hANP. The level of ANP in the extract, as measured by an eel vasodepressor bioassay, was much greater than that measured by RIA for hANP. The immunoreactive and bioactive ANP in the heart extract are identical since the vasodepressor activity disappeared after IR-ANP was absorbed by excess antibodies raised against hANP. Chromatography on Sephadex G-75 generated a major peak of IR-ANP at a position that corresponded to a molecular weight of 14 kD and minor peaks at 3–7 kD from both plasma and heart extract. Reverse phase HPLC of plasma and heart extract generated several peaks of IR-ANP at positions more hydrophilic than those of mammalian ANPs. These results show that eel hearts contain immunoreactive and bioactive ANPs which are distinctly different from hANP. These ANPs are synthesized both in the atrium and in the ventricle, and they are secreted into the circulation mostly in the larger molecular form. The atrial ANP may be stored in the granules and secreted upon exposure of eels to certain stimuli, but the ventricular ANP may be secreted constitutively into the circulation without prior storage in the granules.
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    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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