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    Development genes and evolution 187 (1979), S. 35-47 
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Keywords: Ascidia ; Concanavalin A ; Development
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The early development ofPhallusia mammillata eggs, dechorionated with trypsin and treated with Concanavalin A, was studied. Vital staining with a very dilute solution of acridine orange (0.01 μg/ml) helped to visualize the mitochondrial ‘crescent’ by fluorescence. At high concentrations of Concanavalin A (20–200 μg/ml) fertilized eggs did not cleave, but went through early ooplasmic segregation movements (formation of the crescent) and multinuclear syncytia were formed. At lower concentrations of Concanavalin A (less than 10 μg/ml), cleavage occurred, but the blastomeres remained rounded, leading to a grapelike embryo. Eggs attached to Concanavalin A treated nylon surfaces either did not cleave or produced grapelike embryos. Attachment of the eggs did not affect ooplasmic segregation. Considering modern theories of membrane structure it was concluded that Concanavalin A prevented cleavage either by immobilizing surface structures connected with microfilaments or by indirectly modifying other membrane structures. These structures could not have been involved in ooplasmic segregation, but their mobility was necessary for further morphogenesis.
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    Development genes and evolution 186 (1979), S. 27-50 
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Keywords: Compound eye ; Development ; Determination of R7 cells ; sevenless mutant analysis ; Drosophila
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary sev LY3,the only existing allele at thesev locus (1–33,2±0,2), behaves as strongly hypomorph or even as amorph. Ommatidia in asev compound eye have only seven receptor cells, the position of the R7 pattern element being vacant. Various criteria showing that the missing cell is R7 have been verified. These include (i) anatomical characteristics ofsev ommatidia; (ii) behaviour of central R cells insev rdgB double mutants; (iii) medullary projection of central R cell axons; and (iv) mitotic pattern ofsev imaginal discs. The analysis of morphogeneticsev-sev + mosaics has shown thatsev is expressed autonomously by R7 cells, indicating that thesev phenotype is not due to asev genotype of ommatidial pattern elements other than R7. The study of third instarsev imaginal discs has not brought any direct evidence for death of clustered presumptive R7 cells; however, clonal analysis of the developingsev compound eye has given evidence of developmental parameters comparable to those ofsev +, therefore favouring the hypothesis that R7 cells die insev mutants. On the other hand,sev + seems to be required for the determination of the R7 cells, since thesev phenotype cannot be uncovered during the last mitoses of heterozygous mutant cells.
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Nicotiana ; Polysomes ; Protein synthesis ; Protoplasts ; Ribonuclease ; Ribosomes ; Stress
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Polyribosomes (polysomes), active in an amino acid incorporation system in vitro, were isolated from tobacco leaf protoplasts. A comparison of polysome profiles indicated that the polysome/monosome ratio is greatly decreased in isolated protoplasts as compared to the intact leaf. In isolated protoplasts, a marked accumulation of ribosomal subunits was also found. The division of protoplasts, as investigated in the 8-cell and callus stages, was associated with a(n) (at least) partial regeneration of polysome profiles characteristic for leaves. Plasmolysis of leaves attached to the plant had no great effect on the polysome profile. However, leaf excision per se resulted in a dramatic loss of polysomes, even when the leaf tissue was floated on water. It is concluded that the isolation of the cell from its normal environment, and not the osmotic stress and associated increase in RNase activity, is the most important factor responsible for the loss of polysomes in isolated protoplasts.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Olfactory organ ; Development ; Melanotaeniidae ; Scanning and transmission electron microscopy
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The development of the olfactory organ in the rainbow fish, Nematocentris maccullochi, was studied using scanning and transmission electron microscopy; it was compared with the developmental process in other teleosts, especially in the closely related atherinids and cyprinodonts. The formation of the nares parallels that in atherinids, salmonids, cyprinids and heterosomats, but differs from that found in cyprinodonts. Another ontogenetic feature in which the olfactory organs of the rainbow fish and also of atherinids differ from those of cyprinodonts, is the occurrence of transitory kinociliary cells which disappear during the postlarval period. The divergent evolutionary pathways are discussed with reference to experimental investigations. During development, ciliated and microvillous receptor cell types occur. At the primary larval stage ciliated receptor neurons are exclusively present. At a later stage the microvillous type develops and becomes equal in frequency. Thus, the microvillous receptor represents a separate type of olfactory neuron and is not a progenitor of the ciliated receptor cell.
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    Cell & tissue research 198 (1979), S. 247-260 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Tight junctions ; Development ; Mesothelium ; Mouse embryo ; Freeze-fracture
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The peritoneal mesothelium of mouse embryos (12 to 18 day of gestation) was studied by freeze-fracture and in sections in order to reveal the initial formation of the tight junctions. Freeze-fracture observations showed three types of tight junctions. Type I consists of belt-like meshworks of elevations on the P face and of shallow grooves on the E face. No tight junctional particle can be seen either on the elevations or in the grooves. Type II shows rows of discontinuous particles on the elevations on the P face. Type III consists of strands forming ridges on the P face. On the E face, the grooves of Type II and III appear to be narrower and sharper than those of Type I. Quantitatively, Type I junctions are most numerous during the early stages (day 12–13) of embryonic development, while Type III junctions become more common in the later stages, and are the only type seen by day 18. Observations on sections, however, fail to distinguish between the three types. The results suggest that an initial sign of tight junction formation is close apposition of the two cell membranes in the junctional domain, without tight junctional particles. Later, the particles appear to be incorporated in the tight junctions and the strands form by fusion of the particles.
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    Protoplasma 100 (1979), S. 139-153 
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Keywords: Aegilops comosa var.thessalica ; Cell wall ; Development ; Mestome sheath cells ; Microtubules ; Suberized lamella
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The development of mestome sheath cells ofAegilops comosa var.thessalica was studied by electron microscopy. Anatomical and cytological observations show that this grass belongs to the C3 or non-Kranz plants. In the asymmetrically thickened walls of mestome sheath cells a suberized lamella is present. This lamella is deposited asynchronously. In the midrib and the large lateral bundles it appears first in the outer and inner walls and usually later in the radial walls. In the small lateral bundles its appearance is delayed in the inner walls of those cells situated on the xylem side. At maturity the suberized lamella is observed in all cell walls; however, in the small lateral bundles it is partly or totally absent from the walls of some cells situated on the xylem side. Tertiary wall formation is asynchronous as well, for it generally follows the deposition pattern of the suberized lamella. During the development of the mestome sheath cells microtubules show marked changes in their number and orientation, being fewer and longitudinal during suberin deposition. Dictyosomes are very active and may be involved in primary and tertiary wall formation. Endoplasmic reticulum cisternae are abundant and partly smooth, while plasmalemmasomes may function to reduce the plasmalemma extension. However, cytoplasmic structures that are clearly involved in suberin synthesis could not be identified. Suberized lamellae react strongly with silver hexamine. This is probably due to post-fixation with osmium tetroxide. On the basis of structural characteristics the mestome sheath may be regarded as an endodermis (cf., alsoFahn 1974). The significance of this view for water and assimilate exchange between the mesophyll and the bundle is discussed.
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    Medical & biological engineering & computing 17 (1979), S. 397-403 
    ISSN: 1741-0444
    Keywords: Articular cartilage ; Impact ; Stress ; Strain ; Energy absorption
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Forty-eight samples of 9 mm diameter articular cartilage and associated subchondral bone from, the tibial plateau of human knee joints were mounted in methylmethacrylate cement and subjected to controlled impact velocities. The controlled velocities provided for the testing of 21 samples at a strain rate of 500 s−1 and 27 samples at a strain rate of 1000 s−1. Data are presented on the energy absorption per unit volume of cartilage in relation to the associated stresses and strains. The data in each of the resultant nine graphs are subjected to a least squares fit to the polynomial $$Y = a_1 X + a_2 X^2 $$ The relevant statistical data for each of the strain rates and for the combined data are presented. While the total energy absorption of the articular cartilage of the knee joint at ambulatory stresses of 0·8 to 6·3 N/mm2 is calculated to be no more than 0·13 to 3·65 J, it is suggested that the compliance of the cartilage of the knee joint together with the incongruity of the tibia and femur are essential features that should be considered in the design of total knee-replacement prostheses.
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    Cell & tissue research 203 (1979), S. 321-329 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Salivary gland ; Development ; Isoproterenol ; Morphology ; Function
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The cellular mechanisms responsible for the structural and functional alterations produced in salivary glands by isoproterenol (ISP) were investigated. Postnatal rats were injected with ISP, and alterations in the structure and protein components of the submandibular glands were determined. Normal age-dependent protein patterns detected by electrophoresis are attributed to the biochemical and functional differentiation of proacinar and acinar secretory cells and correlate with structural changes in these cells. Structural changes induced by ISP involve the acinar cells without detectably altering terminal tubule cells. In addition, synthesis of a specific protein by the glands is enhanced by ISP treatment. By comparing protein patterns in the submandibular glands of control and treated rats, it was concluded that ISP increases synthesis of a specific salivary protein normally produced by proacinar cells during a limited period of glandular development. These results suggest that a neurally mediated regulatory mechanism that becomes altered by ISP plays a role in normal salivary gland development.
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    Cell & tissue research 197 (1979), S. 337-346 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Development ; Median eminence ; Neurohypophysial hormones ; Corticotrophin releasing factor ; Immunoperoxidase histochemistry ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Transverse sections of the median eminence from fetal and neonatal rats were examined by the immunoperoxidase technique to detect the presence of oxytocin, vasopressin and neurophysin. Neurophysin was observed in the 18-day fetus. Vasopressin and oxytocin were not detected until after birth, on the 4th and 8th days respectively. There was an accumulation of material crossreactive with neurophysin and vasopressin antibodies in the palisade layer of the median eminence between the 4th and 9th days after birth. This distribution of immunoreactive material in the palisade layer was suggestive of neurosecretory substances localized in two fibre tracts on either side of the median eminence. The data are consistent with the accumulation of corticotropin releasing factor and an associated neurophysin in this area. It is suggested that the accumulation of material occurs because of the relative immaturity of the capillary loops that constitute the primary plexus of the hypophysial portal system.
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    Development genes and evolution 184 (1978), S. 273-283 
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Keywords: Nervous system ; Development ; Imaginal discs ; Drosophila
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The pathway of adult sensory nerves has been analysed in three experimental situations: (i) in flies with grossly abnormal thoracic morphology resulting from X-irradiation early during development, (ii) in flies which had been subjected to surgical operations late in the larval period, (iii) in homoeotic mutants. The results provide experimental support for a simple mechanism in which developing adult axons join the nearest larval nerve and are guided by it up to the central nervous system. In particular, experimental interference with normal development can result in nerves from different segments, or from dorsal and ventral appendages, joining each other and entering the central nervous system together.
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    Development genes and evolution 184 (1978), S. 325-350 
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Keywords: Optic lobes ; Compound eyes ; Development ; Odonata
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Des résultats antérieurs ayant montré une certaine dépendance du lobe optique envers l'oeil composé au cours du développement post-embryonnaire, il importait de préciser le rôle joué par les fibres post-rétiniennes qui relient ces deux organes. On pouvait, en particulier, se demander si l'activité mitotique du massif d'accroissement commun aux deux ganglions optiques externes (la lamina et la medulla) est contrôlée par le nombre de fibres postrétiniennes néoformées, ou bien si le rôle régulateur des fibres post-rétiniennes s'exerce plus tard, au moment de la différenciation des cellules ganglionnaires. Afin de répondre à ces questions trois types d'opération impliquant l'activité des fibres post-rétiniennes ont été pratiquées: (1) Une déficience en fibres post-rétiniennes néoformées a été obtenue par ablation de la zone d'accroissement oculaire et son remplacement par du tégument banal. (2) Une surcharge en jeunes fibres post-rétiniennes a été réalisée par l'induction de zones d'accroissement oculaires supplémentaires à la suite de rotations antéro-postérieures de volets oculaires. (3) Des “témoins-opérés” ont subi l'ablation, puis la remise en place immédiate de volets oculaires identiques à ceux des séries précédentes. Les résultats obtenus ont permis de préciser les processus régulateurs qui contrôlent la croissance du lobe optique en la rendant dépendante de la croissance de l'oeil sus-jacent. Cette régulation, qui consiste en un ajustement exact du nombre des cellules ganglionnaires fonctionnelles à celui des fibres postrétiniennes, s'exercerait à trois niveaux: (1) Une première régulation de la croissance contrôlerait le nombre total de neuroblastes dans le massif d'accroissement externe, la quantité de ces cellules embryonnaires étant d'autant plus élevé que la densité de fibres post-rétiniennes serait plus forte. Par contre, le taux mitotique du massif d'accroissement, qui s'est révélé invariable, ne serait pas sous le contrôle des fibres post-rétiniennes. (2) Une seconde régulation, beaucoup plus précise, s'effectuant dans la lamina, consisterait en la différenciation des seules cellules ganglionnaires contactées par les fibres post-rétiniennes néoformées, les cellules surnuméraires dégénérant alors rapidement. L'action différenciatrice s'exercant au niveau des autres ganglions, medulla et lobula, nécessiterait la présence à la fois des fibres post-rétiniennes à orientation centripètes, et des fibres centrifuges. (3) Un ultime processus régulateur, qui implique l'intégrité des fibres postrétiniennes, assurerait le maintien des cellules ganglionnaires fonctionnelles.
    Notes: Summary Since to earlier results indicated a dependence of the optic lobe on the compound eye during post-embryonic development, it appeared essential to specify the part played by the post-retinal fibres connecting these two organs. Especially, we wondered if the mitotic activity in the outer optic anlage common to the two outer optic ganglia (lamina and medulla) was controlled by the number of newly-neoformed post-retinal fibres, or if the regulating influence from the post-retinal fibres takes place later, during the differentiation of the ganglion cells. In order to answer these questions, three kinds of operation were performed: (1) removal, in young larvae, of the zone producing new ommatidia. This operation deprives the optic of the arrival of new post-retinal fibres below the operated level. (2) overloading of post-retinal fibres, by inducing zones that produced supernumerary ommatidia. (3) removal of an ocular volet, followed by its immediate reinsertion, to provide a “surgery-control”. The following results were obtained: (1) A preliminary growth regulation controlled the total number of neuroblasts in the outer optic anlage. However, the permanent mitotic activity of these cells was not controlled by post-retinal fibres. (2) A second regulation, much more precise, occurring in the lamina, consisted in the differentiation of the ganglion cells being affected by the new post-retinal fibres. The supernumerary cells then rapidly degenerated. (3) A last regulatory process, implying the integrity of post-retinal fibres, maintained the ganglion cells.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 116 (1978), S. 690-704 
    ISSN: 1420-9136
    Keywords: Friction ; Pressure ; Temperature ; Water ; Stress ; Gouge ; Joints ; Faults
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    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Abstract This paper reviews many of the mechanical properties of faulted and jointed rock under pressure and temperature and in the presence of water. At low effective confining pressures (below about 1 kilobar), the friction strength is quite variable and depends on the frictional resistance between gouge particles or asperities and on the dilatancy of the fault. At higher pressures the friction strength is nearly independent of mineralogy, temperature, and rate, at least for rocks whose friction strength is less than the failure strength. Water tends to slightly weaken the fault. The type of sliding motion, whether stick-slip or stable sliding, is much more affected by environmental and mineralogical factors. In general, stick-slip is dominant at high pressures and low temperatures, in the presence of strong minerals such as quartz and feldspar, in the absence of gouge, for lower surface roughness, and perhaps in the presence of water. The microscopic deformation mechanisms are poorly understood. At low temperatures, cataclasis dominates in rocks containing mostly quartz or feldspar, and plastic deformation in rocks containing mostly calcite or platy silicates. At high temperature most minerals deform plastically, producing a greater temperature-and rate-dependence of the friction strength. Glass has been found in some sliding surfaces in sandstone.
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    Development genes and evolution 184 (1978), S. 1-13 
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Keywords: Cell division ; Development ; Cryptobiosis ; Nauplius larva
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Cell division during embryonic development of the brine shrimp,Artemia salina has been studied by counting nuclei and mitotic figures. No cell division was observed during development of the encysted gastrula until about an hour before emergence of the embryo (a pre-nauplius) from the cyst, and even then only a few mitotic figures were observed. Following emergence, and during further development up to the stage II nauplius larva an increase of about 25% in the number of cells occurs. However, when the newly hatched larva is exposed to FUdR (10 μg/ml) cell division is largely inhibited, but observable development nevertheless proceeds normally. Evidently all processes involved with the development of the gastrula into a stage II nauplius larva can occur with far fewer cells than normally are present.
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Cotyledons ; Brassica ; Development ; Intracellular localization ; Lipase ; Microsomal membrane fraction
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    Notes: Abstract In homogenates of resting rapeseeds no lipase activity (glycerolester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.3) could be detected using a titrimetric assay procedure. Following a 30-h lag-phase after imbibition, lipase activity increased sharply, reaching its maximum at day 4 after sowing. Simultaneously triglyceride content of the cotyledons decreased sharply. At any time during the 11-day period of seedling growth examined, only an alkaline lipase activity with a pH optimum around 9 was present. White light had essentially no effect on the development of lipase activity. However, the disappearance of lipase activity from the cotyledons after fat utilization was found to depend on nitrogen nutrition of the seedlings. The activities of the glyoxysomal enzymes catalase and malate synthetase showed the usual rise and fall patterns with peak activities at day 4 after sowing, independently of the mineral nutrition of the seedlings. About 90% of the lipase activity was associated with a microsomal membrane fraction. Resolution of this fraction by sucrose density gradient centrifugation (62,000 g for 14 h) yielded three distinct membrane fractions. Maximum activities of membrane marker enzymes were recovered from the gradients at following densities: The major portion of microsomal protein and lipase activity at 1.085 kg/l; microsomal malate synthetase and phosphorylcholineglyceride transferase at 1.116 kg/l; NADH-cytochrome c reductase and phosphorylcholinecytidyl transferase at 1.133 kg/l. Evidently in rapeseed cotyledons lipase activity is associated only with a discrete microsomal membrane fraction which sediments differently from membrane fractions of the endoplasmic reticulum.
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    Archives of microbiology 117 (1978), S. 221-226 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Nematophagous fungus ; Giant functional traps ; Mutation ; Development
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    Notes: Abstract Mutagenesis with nitrosoguanidine yielded two classes of ring trap mutants in the predacious HyphomyceteDactylella brochopaga: strains which could make no traps and those with a proportion of giant, functional traps. A third strain, derived from a trapless strain made abnormally small functional traps. The giant traps are described, together with developmental abnormalities they sometimes display. The characteristics of the chief mutant strains are discussed.
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Physarum polycephalum ; Amoebae ; Aminopeptidases ; Acid proteases ; Regulation ; Development ; Differential gene activity
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    Notes: Abstract The cultivation of Physarum polycephalum amoebae in two media with different protein contents revealed a regulation of aminopeptidases and proteases depending on the albumin content of the medium: in growing amoebae and plasmodia the aminopeptidases have similar isoenzyme patterns and relative activities against nitroanilides. One alanine and four leucine aminopeptidase isoenzymes were found within the slightly acid pH range. During growth amoebae secrete—different from plasmodia—leucine aminopeptidase into the medium with low protein content. In an albumin-rich medium additional alanine aminopeptidase activity was found. Out of nine plasmodial proteases four were found in amoebae too. Only one band (pI 3.6) was present in the protein-poor medium. No protease activity could be detected in the proteinrich medium.
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 52 (1978), S. 269-271 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Daphnia Pulex ; Development ; Sex Determination ; Ecological factors ; Identical Chromosome Sets
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Sex-dependent differences in the state of the nuclear chromatin of somatic cells were found in Daphnia pulex. It is suggested that the genome of Daphnia pulex has two developmental programmes based on identical chromosome sets. The female programme consistently functions under a wide range of ecological conditions, whereas the male programme is turned on by specific ecological stimuli. The genes controlling the activation and function of the male programme may be phenotypically latent for many parthenogenetic generations.
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    Cell & tissue research 189 (1978), S. 203-217 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Astrocytes ; Development ; Phagocytosis ; Neuroplasticity ; Ultrastructure
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Previous studies have demonstrated that astrocyte processes are responsible for a spontaneously occurring phagocytosis of boutons on cat spinal motoneurons during the second postnatal week. In the present investigation, the astrocytes and the astrocyte processes in contact with the motoneurons were studied qualitatively and quantitatively during the early postnatal period. It could be concluded that the cells responsible for the phagocytosis of boutons are immature astrocytes. These cells were present not only during the period of phagocytosis but also prior to this period. The type of process responsible for the phagocytosis was present not only during the period of phagocytosis but also prior to and after that period although the relative contribution of such processes to the glia-covered membrane area of the motoneurons was reduced in the older animals. On the basis of these results, the possible specificity of the immature astrocyte as the element responsible for the phagocytosis of boutons during normal development is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 188 (1978), S. 465-480 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Steroidogenic cells ; Gonads ; Mouse ; Development ; Ultrastructural differentiation
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Different steps in mouse ovarian and testicular development have been studied in order to compare the time sequences during the in vivo differentiation of steroidogenic cell populations growing in contact with male and female gonocytes. These time sequences indicated a basic common developmental pattern: early signs of steroid synthesis in the male gonad, but late entering into meiotic prophase of XY germ cells; early meiosis but late steroidogenic activity in the ovary. In both male and female interstitial tissues, signs of involution were found following a period of exponential development.
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    Cell & tissue research 188 (1978), S. 491-496 
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    Keywords: Castration ; LH-cells ; Rat ; Development ; Sex-steroids
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    Notes: Summary The effects of sex-steroids on the LH-cell development in neonatal rats were studied. The cells were stained immunohistochemically by applying anti-HCG serum. On the second day after birth some of the animals of both sexes were gonadectomized and simultaneously injected with testosterone or estradiol (50 or 200 μg). The remaining animals were either gonadectomized or injected with either one of the sex-steroids. The LH-cell numbers in each group were determined on the 12th day of age from serially cut histological sections of the pituitary. In castrated males the number of LH-cells was about twice that of the intact animals. In the so-called sex-zone, LH-cells tended to be hypertrophied in castrates. These alterations in the appearance of LH-cells did not occur after ovariectomy. In gonadectomized animals injected with sexsteroids (200 μg), the cells were markedly reduced in number and size, both in males and females. Testosterone injection (50 μg) into intact newborn animals also suppressed the numerical development of LH-cells, especially in females. These alterations were particularly evident in the sex-zone in both sexes. Thus the present findings show that sex-steroids may be involved in sexual differences in morphological development of LH-cells in newborn rats.
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    Plant ecology 37 (1978), S. 1-17 
    ISSN: 1573-5052
    Keywords: Development ; Model ; Peat bog ; Simulation ; Vegetation
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary A dynamic model is developed which simulates changes in peat bogs on different kinds of slopes. The relationships between the elements of the model which include bog plants, fen plants, water, peat and nutrients, are defined based on data from an earlier study of vegetation in the Rothenthurm area in Switzerland, and from published sources. The model is tested for its performance on three types of slope, starting development at a hypothetical state with low amounts of all variables. The development of bogs is traced until a stable state is reached at equilibrium. It is evident from the results that the establishment of a mature stable system takes longest on the flat slope. On all three slopes the peat layer reaches its maximum value before the equilibrium is reached at a slightly reduced peat level. As were observed in the fied, most slope types do not allow a peat bog to persist long under the local climatical conditions, but changes are forced in the vegetation toward a fen type with higher nutrient supply. It was however possible to simulate a stable peat bog when the slope was flat enough (type C in main text). The results of simulation reproduced with reasonable accuracy the shape of the bogs investigated in the field, the abundance of bog and fen plant species, the ground water table, the thickness of peat and the state of nutrient concentrations in the site. The model is rendered to have minimum complexity by assumptions, described in the main text, to reproduce only those properties of peat bogs that were considered primary in importance in the field. The extent to which the model can help to better understand the natural system is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 187 (1978), S. 1-24 
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    Keywords: Insect sensillum ; Mechanoreceptor ; Development ; Ultrastructure ; Gryllus bimaculatus
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    Notes: Summary The filiform hairs, mechanoreceptors of Gryllus, pass through six developmental stages during the last larval stage. The cytoplasm of their sense cells suggests intensive synthesis of protein for cellular metabolism and intercytoplasmic exchange of material via glial evaginations. Ultrahistochemical tests demonstrated acid phosphatase in the lysosomes as well as in components of the Golgi apparatus. There was no significant change in the appearance of the sense cell cytoplasm, indicating a maintained functional state also during molting. The new cuticular apparatus is formed after apolysis by the three enveloping cells. Formation of the replacement hairs is initiated by a cytoplasmic outgrowth of the trichogen cell. During morphogenesis of the new hair, the microtubules serve as a cytoskeleton and probably control the flow of vesicles, which contain phenol oxidase, also demonstrated in the Golgi apparatus, and are incorporated into the new cuticle. Bundles of microfibrils are involved in the surface sculpturing of the replacement hair. The trichogen cell also forms a number of structural elements, e.g. the “cup” and “strut” marked geometric peculiarities of which indicate that they are important in the spatial orientation of the dendrite and thus also in transduction. Reduction of the apical cell membrane of the tormogen cell after apolysis permits unrestricted growth of the new hair into the exuvial space. The tormogen cell participates in the formation of the joint membrane, parts of the socket and the articulation of the hair.
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    Cell & tissue research 191 (1978), S. 121-139 
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    Keywords: Insect sensilla ; Development ; Sexual dimorphism ; Antennal input ; Periplaneta americana L.
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    Notes: Summary The morphology of the antennal hair-sensilla of Periplaneta americana, their distribution and frequency on the antennal flagellum have been examined by transmission and scanning-electron microscopy. The types of sensilla were distinguished with respect to physiologically relevant criteria such as wall structure and number of sensory cells. Among the sensilla of the antenna of the adult male, long, single-walled sensilla with four sensory cells (type sw B), probably responsible for reception of sexual pheromones, are most frequent, representing about 54% of the antennal sensilla. About half of these sensilla are newly-formed at the imaginai ecdysis; the other half are derived from the shorter type sw B sensilla of the nymphal antenna. Short type sw B sensilla are present in all larval stages of both sexes and in adult females as well. During the imaginal ecdysis of males, however, the length of these sensilla increases to double that found in nymphs. Dendritic branches also increase in number. During postembryonic development, the number of sensory fibers in the antennal flagellum increases nearly 20-fold, from 14,000 in the first larval instar to about 270,000 in the adult male. The greatest increase, approximately 90%, occurs during the last developmental stage.
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    Cell & tissue research 195 (1978), S. 195-203 
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    Keywords: Blood-brain barrier ; Horseradish peroxidase ; Spinal cord ; Cerebellum ; Development ; Chick embryo
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    Notes: Summary One to 20 mg of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was injected into the allantoic vein of chick embryos between the 7th to 21st day of incubation and its penetration from blood into the interstitium of cerebellum and spinal cord (upper thoracic) was examined by light and electron microscopy in order to study development of the blood-brain barrier. Until the 12th day of incubation (stage 38) the reaction products, indicating the presence of peroxidase, were distributed in every region of the intercellular spaces in both cerebellum and spinal cord, whereas in 13th and 14th day embryos (stage 39 and 40) they were observed only in the medullary regions. In the embryos after 15th day (stage 41) they filled only the intravascular lumen and some micropinocytotic vesicles in the endothelium. These results show that the blood-brain barrier to HRP develops roughly synchronously in various parts of the central nervous system and evolves independently of neurogenesis, the course of which differs considerably in the cerebellum and spinal cord.
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    Cell & tissue research 193 (1978), S. 139-154 
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    Keywords: Adenohypophysis ; Scyllium canicula ; Stellate cells ; Development ; Granules
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    Notes: Summary Granular hormone-producing cells and agranular cells (stellate cells, including giant and pericavitary cells) were electron microscopically studied in the hypophysis of the small spotted dogfish (Scyllium canicula) up to several months after hatching. Comparisons of results obtained in embryos, newly hatched fish and adults show an increase of the mean granule diameter in the four major endocrine cell types. Small granule cells which are present in all lobes are especially numerous in the ventral lobe. The structures observed in certain cavity boundary cells suggest a role in resorption and transport.
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    Cell & tissue research 193 (1978), S. 525-532 
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    Keywords: Intranuclear inclusions ; Neurons ; Development ; Ultrastructure ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of intranuclear rodlets, microtubules, fibrillar lattices and membranous inclusions found in the developing cuneate nuclei of rats is described. Rodlets, ranging in diameter from 96–312 nm and in length from 1–2 μm, are made up of tightly packed straight filaments measuring 5–8 nm in diameter. Microtubules with a diameter of 26 nm are clustered together. Fibrillar lattices are made up of fibrils with a diameter of 9 nm arranged in layers or sets. Two to nine sets make up a lattice, with a maximum width of 68 nm, in which the adjacent sets are arranged at an angle to each other. Rodlets and fibrillar lattices occur in 6.8% of the neurons. Membranous inclusions, reported here for the first time in normal neurons, are of 2 types: small vesicles of 0.1–0.6 μm and large vacuoles measuring 1–2 μm. Both types are bounded by either a single or a double membrane and generally have an electron lucent content. Membranous inclusions occur in 25.3 % of the neurons. Changes in the frequency of occurrence of the various intranuclear inclusions in the course of postnatal development are also reported.
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    Cell & tissue research 194 (1978), S. 219-236 
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    Keywords: Heart ; Innervation ; Development ; Autonomic nerves
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    Notes: Summary The development of innervation to the atrial myocardium of rabbits from 20th day of gestation to 35 days postnatal was studied ultrastructurally by electron microscopy and by demonstration of catecholamines by histofluorescence. Special attention was directed to the first morphologic appearance of nerve fibers and terminals and the closeness of juxtaposition of terminals with myocardial cells. Adrenergic and cholinergic terminals were identified on the basis of their differential ability to take-up and store the “false adrenergic neurotransmitter” 5-hydroxydopamine. Adrenergic terminals were first encountered at 20 days of gestation whereas cholinergic terminals could not be positively identified until the 24th day of gestation. Throughout development adrenergic terminals were more numerous than cholinergic, about 71 % of the terminals encountered being adrenergic. Many terminals approach closely (20–30 nm) to the sarcolemma of the muscle cells of the atrium. In many instances adrenergic and cholinergic fibers travel together in the same nerve bundle and are closely apposed without intervening Schwann-cell cytoplasm. Such a relationship could allow peripheral interaction between these fibers in the myocardium.
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    ISSN: 1432-1432
    Keywords: 5S RNA ; Drosophila ; Evolution ; Secondary structure ; Development
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    Notes: Summary The nucleotide sequence ofDrosophila melanogaster 5S RNA has been determined and appears to be homogeneous both in the KC cell line and in the insect at different developmental stages. Experimental evidence on the conformation of this molecule is in agreement with a general class of 5S RNA models.
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    Development genes and evolution 182 (1977), S. 107-116 
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    Keywords: Drosophila ; Salivary glands ; Ecdysone ; Transcriptional control ; Development
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    Notes: Summary Injection of α-ecdysone into the larval haemolymph of late third instar larvae ofD. virilis induces both the extrusion of secretory proteins and the inactivation of the enzyme glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate-aminotransferase (E.C. 2.6.16) in the salivary glands. In the presence of actinomycin D or cycloheximide the hormone is ineffective. If before adding these inhibitors RNA synthesis is allowed to proceed for 1.5h, or protein synthesis for 2h after ecdysone injection, however, the protein extrusion and the enzyme inactivation do occur. It is proposed that ecdysone controls these two cytoplasmic events at the transcriptional level by the activation of specific Correlations with puff activities are discussed.
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    Development genes and evolution 183 (1977), S. 325-335 
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    Keywords: Gangliosides ; Sialoglycoproteins ; Acetylcholinesterase ; Brain ; Development
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    Notes: Summary The developmental accretion of up to nine individual gangliosides in foetal brains, peri- and postnatal cortices, postnatal cerebelli and olfactory lobes and in the liver and the spleen were investigated in mice and compared with that of glycoprotein-bound sialic acid and the activity of the acetylcholinesterase. In foetal brain and in postnatal liver and spleen more sialic acid was found bound to glycoproteins than to gangliosides. In postnatal brain structures, however, ganglioside-NeuAc predominated and increased between the 7th and 21st d about 2-fold in the olfactory lobes and cerebellum and more than 3-fold in the cortex. During foetal development the relative quantities (mol %) as well as the absolute concentrations (compared with the fresh weight) of GM1, GM2 and GM3 in the brain decreased, whereas those of GD1a, GD1b and GQ increased. This pattern change continued perinatally in the cortex up to the end of the first week. Thereafter the pattern changed little, but the concentration of all gangliosides present increased much more rapidly, especially between the 10th and 13th d. The postnatal cerebellum and olfactory lobes contained higher concentrations of GM1 and GM3 than the cortex, both gangliosides decreasing in favour of their di-, tri- and tetrasialo-homologues during the third postnatal week. In all brains structures the accretion of GD1a and GT1 was proportional to the increase in the activity of the acetylcholinesterase. Unlike the brain structures, the ganglioside pattern in the liver and spleen, characterised by a predominance of monosialogangliosides and of GD3, did not change noticeably during the first three weeks after birth. The coincidence of the changes in ganglioside accretion observed in the different brain structures with successive periods of morphological differentiation further support the suggestion that gangliosides may play an important role in control of the growth and differentiation of developing nerve cells.
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    Development genes and evolution 182 (1977), S. 329-346 
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    Keywords: Porifera ; Spongillides ; Gemmula ; Development ; Cell differentiation
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die beschalten Dauerstadien (Gemmulae) des SüßwasserschwammesEphydatia fluviatilis enthalten uniforme, totipotente Statocyten (Thésocyten), aus denen sich im Keimungsverlauf Archaeocyten (ein- und zweikernige) und Histoblasten differenzieren. Letztere treten nach einem gewissen Inkubationszeitraum in der zapfenartigen Zone unter der Mikropyle auf, während sich die übrigen Zelltypen zu einem an der Schalenöffnung orientierten, dreidimensionalen Muster gefälleartig anordnen. Nach Ausbildung eines einschichtigen Pinacocyten-Epithels (primäres Pinacoderm) aus peripher gelegenen, einkernigen Zellen schlüpft das nunmehr im Kapselinneren entstandene Primordium durch die offene Mikropyle und nimmt mit dem Substrat Verbindung auf. Das Primordium entwickelt sich zum frühen Jungschwamm, in den die restlichen Archaeocyten, Histoblasten und auch vereinzelt Skleroblasten einwandern.
    Notes: Summary The dormant shelled gemmulae of the fresh water spongeEphydatia fluviatilis contain uniform, totipotent statocytes (thésocytes), which can differentiate either into archaeocytes (mono- and binucleated) or into histoblasts. The histoblasts accumulate at the villus near the micropyle. The other cell types orientate in a three-dimensional pattern at the micropyle, according to a developing gradient. After the primary pinacoderm is formed, the sponge primordium is released through the open micropyle. The primordium develops into a new sponge, into which archaeocytes, histoblasts and scleroblasts migrate.
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    Development genes and evolution 181 (1977), S. 227-245 
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    Keywords: Compound eye ; Development ; Cell lineages ; Genetic mosaics ; Drosophila
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    Notes: Summary The generalogical relationships of photoreceptor cells within the compound eye ofDrosophila have been studied using cell labelling, with either3H-thymidine or recessive mutations, during the third larval stage. It has been found that photoreceptor and secondary pigment cells arise from different precursor cells. Under the present experimental conditions, precursors of receptor cells give rise to about 8 elements which differentiate as R cells of two different groups. One of the cells differentiates as R7 and the remaining as any one of the R1 to R6. The last cells behave initially as equivalent, and can differentiate within the same or within different, but neighbouring, ommatidia. The class of R1 to R6 cell in which each one of these elements differentiates, seems to depend on the time of its origin. The implications of these findings for the formation of the ommatidial pattern are discussed.
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    Archives of microbiology 113 (1977), S. 309-313 
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    Keywords: Cellulose enzyme system ; Development ; Acanthamoeba
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung In Extrakten wachsender Kulturen von Acanthamoeba castellanii konnte ein cellulose-abbauendes Enzymsystem nachgewiesen werden. Es besteht aus einer reduzierende Zucker abspaltenden Komponente mit einem pH-Optimum bei 4, einer viscositätsverändernden Komponente mit einem pH-Optimum bei 6 und einer β-Glucosidase mit einem pH-Optimum von 3,5. Bei pH 4 sind die Celluloseabbauprodukte Cellobiose und Glucose, bei pH 6 höhermolekulare Oligosaccharide. Während der Entwicklung in einem nährstofffreien Salzmedium nehmen die Cellulaseaktivitäten ab: Vor dem Start der Cellulosesynthese sind noch etwa 30% der ursprünglich vorhandenen Celluloseaktivität nachzuweisen, fertige Cysten besitzen noch etwa 10% der Aktivität. Die Bedeutung des Cellulassenzymsystems wird ausgehend von der Tatsache diskutiert, daß die Excystierung ohne Abbau der Cystenwand, in die die Cellulose eingelagert ist, stattfindet.
    Notes: Abstract It could be shown that extracts of growing cultures of Acanthamoeba castellanii contained a cellulose degrading system. Reducing sugars are split off by one component of this system at an optimum of pH 4, another enzyme changes the viscosity at an optimum of pH 6, and a third component is a β-glucosidase with an optimum at pH 3.5. At pH 4 the cellulose degradation products are cellobiose and glucose; at pH 6 higher molecular weight oligosaccharides are produced. During the development from trophozoites to cysts in a nutrient-free medium, the activities of both cellulases decline: Prior to the start of cellulose synthesis only 30%, and in cysts only 10% of the original existing activities are detectable. The biological function of the cellulase enzyme system is discussed together with a consideration of the fact that excystment takes place without digestion of the cyst wall in which the cellulose is deposited.
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    Archives of microbiology 114 (1977), S. 123-136 
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    Keywords: Fungus ; Cytochemistry ; Microbodies ; Development ; Entophlyctis
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    Notes: Abstract Ultrastructural localization of peroxidatic activity was investigated in the chytrid Entophlyctis variabilis with the 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (DAB) cytochemical prodedure. The subcellular distribution of reaction product varied with changes in pH of the DAB medium and with the developmental stage of the fungus. Incubations in the DAB reaction medium at pH 9.2 produced an electron dense reaction product within single membrane bounded organelles which resembled microbodies but which varied in shapes from elongate to oval. At this pH the cell wall also stained darkly. When the pH of the DAB medium was lowered to pH 8.2 or 7.0, DAB oxidation product was localized within mitochondrial cristae as well as in microbodies and zoosporangial walls. As soon as zoospores were completely cleaved out of the zoosporangial cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) also stained. When the wall appeared around the encysted zoospore, ER staining was no longer found. The influence of the catalase inhibitor, aminotriazole, and the inhibitors of heme enzymes, sodium azide and sodium cyanide, on the staining patterns within cells incubated in the DAB media indicates that microbody staining is due to both catalase and peroxidase, mitochondrial staining is due to cytochrome c, and ER staining is due to peroxidase.
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    Cell & tissue research 176 (1977), S. 167-178 
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    Keywords: Intestine (rat) ; Development ; Isolated cells ; Enzymes
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    Notes: Summary A modification of Weiser's (1973) cell isolation method was used in order to study the developmental pattern of various intestinal enzyme activities in villus and crypt cells of normal rats from 5 days after birth until 8 weeks. Alkaline phosphatase and enterokinase activities were always located in the upper villus zone during postnatal development. Enterokinase activity was higher in the upper villus cells during the third week of life than after this period. Aminopeptidase activity was located in the crypt cells during the first week, its maximum activity remained in this area until the third week. At this time, sucrase activity appeared in the crypt cells, then aminopeptidase and sucrase activities rose to the villus zone during the fourth week. Amylase activity was detected along the entire crypt-villus axis 5 days after birth, reaching maximum activity in crypt cells at the end of the first week and in the upper villus cells after the fourth week. In contrast with the other enzymes studied almost all amylase activity was soluble in the youngest animals whereas at weaning most of the activity appeared in a particulate form in the villus cells. But in the crypt cells the ratio between particulate and soluble form remained unchanged until the adult stage. Various hypotheses are advanced to explain the patterns of evolution of the different enzymes.
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    Environmental biology of fishes 2 (1977), S. 131-136 
    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Trout ; Behavior ; Interrenal ; Hierarchy ; Stress ; Dominance ; Aggression ; Salmo gairdneri
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    Notes: Synopsis The relationship between standing in a dominance hierarchy and physiological stress was studied in rainbow trout. Individual fish were assigned relative dominance ranks, based on behavioral observations in a large, simulated stream tank. These ranks were compared to histometric measures of interrenal cell activity. Fish, isolated individually in the stream tank had significantly lower levels of interrenal activity than fish from the crowded holding tank. Groups of fish in the stream tank formed stable, linear dominance hierarchies. Interrenal activity correlated inversely with dominance rank, with the exception that top ranking fish had higher activity than expected. Possible cause and effect relationships are discussed.
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    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Embryology ; Development ; Embryonic respiration ; Carotenoids in respiration ; Evolution ; Egg hiding ; Mouth brooder ; Young size ; Cichlids ; Mouth fertilization ; Size on release ; Latimeria
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    Notes: Synopsis With yolk as a food source, development of Labeotropheus takes place in the buccal pouch of the female until such time as juveniles are formed. Hatching from the vitelline membrane occurs early, after 6 days of incubation, and the eleutheroembryo develops without metamorphic stages directly into a juvenile, forming advanced structures like fins, skeleton and pigments, at a time when a large yolksac is still present. A strong circulatory network on the yolk and anal fin fold, and a yellow carotenoid pigment provide the oxygen supply within the closely packed buccal pouch. A relatively large self-sufficient juvenile, 14% of the adult fish size, is released from the mother's mouth 31 days after fertilization. The evolution of advanced hiding styles in reproductive guilds of fishes is discussed and ends with a speculation that the Latimeria, having had more geological time to refine its hiding style, releases fully developed young, 25 to 30% the size of the adult fish. The advanced style of hiding eggs is accompanied not only with fewer, larger eggs, but also by a successive increase in yolk density in terms of nutrients and respiratory pigments; these in effect determine the size of the released juvenile.
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    Cell & tissue research 180 (1977), S. 211-222 
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    Keywords: Muscles ; Enzymes ; Chicken ; Nerve ; Development
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    Notes: Summary 1. The development of the characteristic histochemical appearance of the slow anterior latissimus dorsi (ALD) and fast posterior latissimus dorsi (PLD) was studied in chickens during embryonic development as well as during regeneration of minced muscle. 2. During embryonic development the activity of the oxidative enzyme succinic dehydrogenase (SDH) is higher in the slow ALD muscle already at 16 days of incubation. At this time the fast PLD has a higher activity of the glycolytic enzyme, phosphorylase. Although the histochemical appearance of the two types of muscle is already different at 16 days, their contractile speeds are still similar. No difference in myosin ATP-ase was found in the two muscles in young embryos but in 20-day old embryos the two muscles became distinctly different when stained for this enzyme. 3. When PLD muscles in hatched chickens redeveloped during regeneration in place of ALD the histochemical characteristics of the regenerated muscle resembled ALD, and when ALD regenerated in place of PLD it resembled PLD. 4. It is concluded that the histochemical characteristics of slow and fast muscles become determined during early development, even before any difference in contractile properties can be detected and that they are determined by the nerve.
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    Cell & tissue research 181 (1977), S. 427-441 
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    Keywords: Chick embryo ; Choroid epithelium ; Junctional complex ; Development ; Freeze-etching
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    Notes: Summary The Junctional complex of choroid epithelial cells was studied during in vivo formation, disaggregation after trypsin treatment, and in vitro reaggregation. The in vivo formation begins with the occurrence of amorphous patches of particles followed by the formation of small particulate rows and polygonal-ordered particle assemblies. Further arrangement of the zonula occludens continues with the confluence of particles and smooth contoured ridges. At the 9th day stage a fully developed zonula occludens has developed. In a subsequent step nexus become integrated within the tight junction formation. Disaggregation after trypsination results in fragmentation of the zonulae occludentes. Parts of the disassembling aggregates become incorporated in vacuoles indicating an endocytotic mode of “digestion”. The in vitro reconstruction of the zonula occludens proceeds from remnants of the former zonula occludens. On the 3rd to 4th day of cultivation mature tight junctions are visible. In vitro integrations of nexus were observed during a later phase. On the 7th day, cultivated choroid epithelial cells reveal well differentiated Junctional complexes consisting of continuous zonulae occludentes and integrated gap junctions.
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    Keywords: GEP-system ; Small intestine ; Human embryo ; Neurotensin ; Development ; Immunohistochemistry
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    Notes: Summary The endocrine gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) system of 10 human embryos was studied with special reference to neurotensin-immunoreactive cells. These cells are first present in the ileal and jejunal mucosa of 12 to 13 week old embryos. Thereafter the neurotensin-immunoreactive cells are found regularly in these segments of the gut with an increasing number towards the terminal ileum. At about the twentieth week of gestation, the neurotensin cells are detected also in the lower duodenum, i.e. the distribution pattern is more extensive in this age than in younger embryos or in adults.
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    Development genes and evolution 179 (1976), S. 373-392 
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    Keywords: Compound Eye ; Development ; Drosophila
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    Notes: Summary The development of the rhabdomeric pattern in the compound eye ofDrosophila has been studied using combined transplantation and electron microscope techniques. In a first series of experiments eye imaginal discs of increasing age were implanted into larvae ready to pupate, thus losing variable amounts of the normal time for development. A sequence of differentiative abilities was found in the metamorphosed test pieces. As far as the photoreceptor cells are concerned, the most prominent steps of this sequence are: ability to form groups with other similar elements, anatomical polarization of microvilli, establishment of the rhabdomeric pattern and formation of an equator line. The stability of determination of the equator line was tested in a second experimental series. Fragment of different topographical origin within the mature eye anlage were brought to metamorphosis by implantation into larvae ready to pupate. It was found that an equator line differentiates only in those pieces which according to the published anlage maps contain the prospective equator region prior to metamorphosis. The mitotic abilities of implanted eye imaginal discs were investigated by means of “in vitro”3H-thymidine pulse-labelling and light microscope autoradiography of the differentiated test pieces. During the third larval stage the eye anlage is traversed by two consecutive mitotic waves, each one of them producing different categories of receptor cells. The first, anterior wave predominantly produces cells oriented toward the poles of the eye within the ommatidia, while the second, posterior wave gives rise to elements exclusively in an equatorial position. The dynamics of this proliferation are discussed in relation to the findings in the implantation experiments. Silver-grain counts support the possibility that at least two successive cell divisions occur in the eye anlage between labeling with tritiated thymidine and beginning of morphological differentiation. The relevance of this finding for the understanding of the concept of acquisition of competence is discussed.
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    Keywords: Achlya ; Ribonuclease ; Development ; Sporangium ; Lysogome ; Inhibitors poly(A)+RNA
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    Notes: Abstract The present paper describes intracellular changes in ribonuclease specific activity during Ca2+-induced sporangium formation in the water mold Achlya bisexualis. The enzymes undergo a decrease in activity prior to crosswall formation followed by an increase in activity during spore cleavage. As spore discharge occurs the RNase activity again decreases. A large percentage of the nuclease activity is associated with a lysosomal-like fraction of the cell, but there is also considerably activity associated with nuclear and microsomal fractions. Addition of cycloheximide or actinomycin D at various times during development prevents further decrease or increase in the enzyme activity. Mixing of cell extracts from different developmental stages provides evidence that inhibitors or activators of the enzyme activity are not responsible for the activity levels evident at the different stages. There is a change in the total levels of presumptive mRNA during Ca2+-induced sporangial formation which appears to be associated with the patterns of RNase activity. Utilizing total cellular RNA and Poly(A)+ RNA with the crude ribonuclease preparations, no substrate specificity could be ascertained.
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    Cell & tissue research 170 (1976), S. 113-128 
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    Keywords: Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Acipenseridae ; Spawning ; Stress
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    Notes: Summary Neurohypophyses from sexually mature female sturgeons, Acipenser güldenstädti Brandt, killed before, soon after spawning, and during down-stream migration were studied light and electron microscopically. Ovaries were examined only under a light microscope. A large amount of neurosecretory material (3.5–4.5 arbitrary units) is found in the neurohypophysial “roots” during up-stream migration to spawning grounds. Neurosecretory fibres and their terminals are replete with elementary neurosecretory granules. Side by side with the latter some terminals contain single residual granules and few “synaptic” vesicles. Soon after spawning the amount of neurosecretory material decreases markedly in most individuals (content up to 1–3 units), and elementary granules are few in the fibres and their terminals. The number of residual granules increases, and “synaptic” vesicles are especially numerous. Granulated, disintegrating neurosecretory granules and granule-shadows occur in the preterminal parts of the fibres. The number of pituicytes increases because some “light” tanycytes seem to migrate from the ependymal into the subependymal layer. The restoration of neurosecretory material (reaching again up to 3.5–4.5 units) occurs within a month after spawning. The number of elementary granules increases in fibres and terminals while that of residual granules and “synaptic” vesicles decreases. These changes in the neurohypophysis of females after spawning are due to discharge of great amounts of peptide neurohormones into the general circulation after spawning. Spawning is regarded as a “physiological” stress for these females.
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    Cell & tissue research 167 (1976), S. 265-288 
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    Keywords: Myelinated fibres ; Visual cortex ; Stereology ; Development ; Electron microscopy ; Cat
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    Notes: Summary With the aid of stereological procedures the development of myelinated nerve fibres (MF) was quantitatively investigated in electron micrographs of the visual cortex from animals of different ages: 36 days-old, the age at which fibres first appear, through adulthood. A short description of tissue treatment, methods and qualitative results is given. The following quantitative results are presented: 1. Myelinization begins at about the 36th day postpartum and is not completed by the 164th day. At this time a lack of about 20% MF can be observed. 2. The average diameter of MF decreases from 1.3 μm to 0.8 μm from day 36 to adulthood. 3. The first MF appear near the border of the album. 4. Beginning with the 55th day, small MF arise in layer I, showing two periods of growth. 5. The maximum MF density in the region of layer IV corresponds to the strip of Baillarger. Other aspects of visual cortex development are dealt with in the Discussion. The following conclusions can be drawn: a) The growing of inand output-MF is completed first. b) The development of the internal connecting systems in layers I and IV begins a little later and is completed by the 5th month. c) The MF in layers II and III appear after the 4th month. Kaes (1907) has also described a continuation of MF growth in man lasting into the twenties.
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    Cell & tissue research 168 (1976), S. 549-559 
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    Keywords: Hypothalamic-hypophysial-adrenal axis ; Rat ; Development ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The adrenal glands of decapitated and encephalectomized fetal rats were investigated electron microscopically and compared to those of normal intact fetal rats. Although the adrenal cortices did not show three zones (zona glomerulosa, fasciculata, and reticularis) on the 16.5th day of gestation when the decapitation or encephalectomy was carried out in utero, the zonation was recognized in fetuses operated on the 21.5th day of gestation. The same was true for normal control fetuses. However, cytoplasmic characteristics suggesting steroidogenesis in the cortical cells were reduced to various degrees in the encephalectomized or decapitated fetuses, especially in the latter ones. The change in cytoplasmic appearance was more conspicuous in the inner portion of the cortex. This result suggests that for the maintenance of normal adrenocortical function the hypothalamus may be indispensable even during the prenatal life of rats.
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    In:  New York, 571 pp., Wiley, vol. 5, no. XVI:, pp. 1-14, (ISBN 0-89871-521-0)
    Publication Date: 1976
    Keywords: Structural geology ; Textbook of geology ; Stress ; Geol. aspects ; Crustal deformation (cf. Earthquake precursor: deformation or strain)
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    In:  New York, Springer, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 65-66, (ISBN 0 340 76405 8)
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    Keywords: Stress ; Textbook of geophysics ; Textbook of geology ; Elasticity
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    Archives of microbiology 103 (1975), S. 231-236 
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    Keywords: Chamaesiphonosira cymbellicola ; Budding Bacteria ; Development ; Epiphytism ; Cyanophycaea
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Chamaesiphonosira cymbellicola n. gen., n. sp., entwickelt lang-kegelige, farblose Zellen, die mit der breiteren Basis festsitzen und an der Spitze bis zu 30 eine später zerfallende Kette bildende Knospenzellen abschnüren. Es ergibt sich daraus eine äußerliche ähnlichkeit mit der Cyanophycee Chamaesiphon, doch besteht keine cytologische Übereinstimmung. Die Art kommt ausschließlich auf lebenden Zellen der Diatomee Cymbella cesati vor, trotz reichlichem Angebot vieler anderer ähnlicher Diatomeen und anderer Algen; es handelt sich also um einen sehr spezialisierten Epiphytismus. Außerdem werden bestimmte Stellen der “Wirts” pflanze bevorzugt. Eine Schädigung tritt nicht ein; es erfolgt Übertragung auf die Epitheken der Tochterzellen. Systematisch läßt sich die Gattung am besten in den Caulobacterales sensu Henrici u. Johnson (1935) unterbringen. Als zweite Art ist offenbar Chamaesiphon hyalinus Scherffel (1907) zu ihr zu stellen.
    Notes: Abstract The organism shows long-conical, colourless cells of bacterial size, affixed with the broader basis and cutting off buds from the free apex in numbers as high as 30, which form a chain and later separate. Multiplication is entirely by budding. Some resemblance to Cyanophycean cells, in particular to the exosporangia of Chamaesiphon, seems to be cytologically not verified. The organism grows exclusively on living cells of the diatom Cymbella cesati, and is fixed to them principally on the edges of the valvae. In spite of the presence of many other similar diatom species, the organism represents a remarkable case of extremely specialized epiphytism. There are no signs of damage of the “host” cell, in cell division the epiphyte is taken over by the epithecae of the daughter cells. Systematically the species because of practical reasons can be included into the Caulobacterales sensu Henrici and Johnson (1935). A second species, obviously belonging in here, is represented by Chamaesiphon hyalinus Scherffel (1907).
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    Archives of microbiology 104 (1975), S. 285-288 
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    Keywords: Vibrio alginolyticus ; Flagella ; Development
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    Notes: Abstract The development of peritrichous flagella and, consequently, swarming of Vibrio alginolyticus depend on a complex relationship between temperature, salt concentrations and pH. At temperatures above 28°C V. alginolyticus did not develop peritrichous flagella unless certain minimal concentrations of NaCl are present: the higher the temperature, the higher the NaCl concentrations required for peritrichous flagella synthesis. This requirement for NaCl at high temperatures is much more pronounced at pH 9 than at pH 6. High temperatures and low concentrations of NaCl also inhibited swarming of cells already armed with peritrichous flagella. Other cations, such as Li+, K+ and Mg2+, replaced NaCl only at temperatures below 28°C.
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    Keywords: Submandibular gland (mice) ; Sex-dimorphism ; Amylase ; Development
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    Notes: Summary The submandibular glands of developing and mature Strong A mice were studied by light and electron microscopy. The glands of both sexes show the same cell types during development, but during maturation the glands display a degree of sex-dimorphism. Striated ducts, which differentiate from the larger intralobular ducts present in the neonatal gland, first appear by 5 days of age and reach their mature condition by 20 days of age. Granular convoluted tubule cells, which differentiate from striated duct cells, are first seen at 15 days of age in both sexes. Subsequently, they show a more rapid development in males than in females, and are dimorphically represented by 20 days of age. Intercalated ducts in the neonatal gland contain nongranular and granular cells. With maturation the number of granular cells decreases, apparently due to their conversion into the nongranular type, with their eventual disappearance from the glands of adult males. Their retention in adult females further defines the sexual dimorphism shown by these glands. Amylase activity in gland homogenates is first detectable at 20 days of age in both sexes. During development the male glands show a rapid rise in levels of amylase activity, whereas female glands show a more gradual rise. In mature animals, male glands have higher levels of amylase activity than female glands. The developmental and adult status of amylase activity parallels that of the granular convoluted tubules.
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    Cell & tissue research 159 (1975), S. 195-204 
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    Keywords: Subcommissural organ ; Neurons ; Development ; Rabbit
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    Notes: Summary Neurons which initially lie in the basal region of the subcommissural organ (SCO) were investigated in 20 rabbit fetuses from day 15 to 30 of gestation, and in eight neonatal, 4 and 8 day old rabbits. These SCO-associated neurons, first observed on day 17 of gestation, develop into (1) a rostral mesodiencephalic nerve cell group situated in an area dorsal to the rostral-most part of the SCO and (2) a more caudal layer of single neurons extending throughout the length of the SCO. The present findings are discussed in relation to recent histochemical studies that demonstrated AChE-positive neurons in the pineal complex and subcommissural area of frogs and to recent fluorescence microscopic studies in fetal and adult rats in which a 5-HT system is known to extend from the nucleus raphe dorsalis (B7) along the SCO to the pineal stalk and habenular region. The term “SCO-associated neurons” is a purely morphological way of describing the neurons in question as the neural interconnections of these neurons are still a matter of speculation.
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    Keywords: Neuromuscular junctions ; Rete synapticum ; Development ; Antheraea ; (Lepidoptera) ; Trophic action ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of neuromuscular connections on developing dorsolongitudinal flight muscles was studied in the moth Antheraea polyphemus, Undifferentiated membrane contacts between axon terminals and muscle-fiber anlagen are present in the diapause pupa. They persist during the period of nerve outgrowth, which probably provides a pathway of contact guidance. By the 4th day of adult development some of these contact areas have differentiated into structures similar to neuromuscular junctions although differentiation of muscle structure does not start earlier than the eighth day. Dense-cored vesicles are abundant in many axon terminals at the beginning of development. They later decrease in number quite rapidly. The significance of the above-mentioned early junctions, their possible mode of action and the role of the dense-cored vesicles are discussed. It is proposed that they exercise a stimulating (trophic) influence on the growth of the undifferentiated muscular tissue. The imaginai neuromuscular junctions are formed during the second half of adult development. Clusters of vesicles and electron-dense depositions along the inner face of the axolemma seem to initiate junction formation. Glial processes then grow between axoand sarcolemma and divide the large contact area into several small segments. Mutual invaginations and protrusions of the sarcolemma and the glial cell membrane subsequently form an extensive “rete synapticum.” Six days before eclosion the glial and sarcoplasmic parts of the rete synapticum are similar in size. Up to eclosion, all glial processes shrink and increase in electron density. Most of the observations are discussed also in relation to findings in vertebrates.
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    Keywords: Ovary, dog ; Corpus luteum ; Development ; High voltage electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The transition from ovarian granulosa to lutein cell during the estrus cycle of 60 pregnant and non-pregnant beagle bitches was analyzed by light and electron microscopy (both 100 and 1000 KV). Early proestrus was characterized by a gradual rise in serum estrogen levels, hyperplasia of the granulosa cells, the accumulation of follicular fluid, and the development of tortuous intercellular channels. During the second half of proestrus, serum estrogen levels continued to rise, but growth, division, and differentiation of the granulosa cells was minimal. Estrus was marked by the first acceptance of the male and a well-defined LH peak In the subsequent 24 hour period, the granulosa-lutein cells hypertrophy rapidly and develop a large Golgi apparatus, small profiles of granular endoplasmic reticulum, numerous microfilaments, and large gap junctions between the cells. Mitochondria also proliferate, enlarge, and elongate, but retain lamelliform cristae. Luteinization of the cells and progesterone secretion begin just after ovulation which in turn occurs about 24 hours after the LH peak. On the third and fourth day of estrus, numerous small vesicles of agranular endoplasmic reticulum fill the cytoplasm and the mitochondria swell up and round off. The vesicles rapidly fuse into whorled and flattened cisternae or anastomosing tubules of agranular endoplasmic reticulum, while the mitochondria develop tubulovesicular cristae. These structures gradually become organized with respect to the basal lamina. The Golgi apparatus is centered over the pole of the nucleus that faces the pericapillary space. Stacked and whorled cisternae of agranular ER develop in the lateral margins and avascular end of the cell while mitochondria and tubular elements of agranular ER predominate in the central medial and most basal portions of the cytoplasm. Microfilaments are ubiquitous and appear to be instrumental in this orientation process. The cell surface develops three distinct regional specializations that coincide with the underlying cellular compartment: interconnecting pleomorphic folds fill the pericapillary space; long tenous microvilli project from the lateral cell surface and form tortuous intercellular channels and canaliculi; and large gap junctions form along the margins of the cell furthest removed from the basal lamina. By the sixth day of estrus, the granulosa-luteal cell transition is nearly complete and serum progesterone levels are on the rise.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 124 (1975), S. 213-228 
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    Keywords: Pteridophyta ; Blechnaceae ; Stenochlaena tenuifolia (Desv.)Moore ; Development ; reticulate leaf venation
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    Notes: Abstract Morphogenesis determines histogenesis both in primary leaves and in leaves of mature plants ofStenochlaena at different stages of development. The procambial strands are formed successively from the inner, more advanced parts of the leaf towards the margin, influenced by the main direction of growth. Changes in the direction of growth, e.g. from transverse to longitudinal, cause the formation of a simple network of nerves. A regular pattern originates from the differentiation of anticlinal nerves.
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    Calcified tissue international 16 (1974), S. 209-217 
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    Keywords: Mucopolysaccharides ; Collagen ; Calvarium ; Development
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    Notes: Abstract Mucopolysaccharides (MPS) and collagen have been analyzed in different types of cartilage and some other tissues at various stages of prenatal and postnatal human development. The concentration of the chondroitin sulfate-type MPS increased from the 38th embryonal day, the 6-sulfate exceeding in amount the 4-sulfate. The increase in collagen concentration was accompanied by a decrease in the proportion of neutral salt-soluble collagen. There was no accumulation of chondroitin sulfates in the calvaria. A maximal concentration of MPS of a low molecular weight occurred in the skin and in the ear pinna after the 10th prenatal week. Postnatally, the MPS-concentration in the iliac crest and in the tibial articular cartilages decreased gradually, the highest values being reached in the newborn; the collagen-concentration showed an approximately reciprocal course.
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    Journal of molecular evolution 3 (1974), S. 109-113 
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    Keywords: “Custom Fitting” ; Development ; Evolution ; Antibody response ; Genetic Redundancy ; Perturbation
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    Notes: Summary When the complexity of a developmental system evolves to a certain point, appreciable variation must occur in the process. The problem the biologist faces is whether this point constitutes a limit to the evolution of complexity in developmental systems. If not, what mechanisms are employed to cope with the problem ? The problem—essentially one in “custom fitting” of parts, — and the possible solution(s) to it that have evolved are discussed. The antibody producing system appears to be one that “solves” the custom-fitting problem.
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    Archives of microbiology 96 (1974), S. 353-364 
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    Keywords: Coprinus ; Agaricaceae ; Mushroom ; Development ; Growth Regulator ; Stipe Growth
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    Notes: Abstract Some of the morphological and physiological parameters of stipe growth or elongation inCoprinus radiatus were investigated. During the development of the fruit body the number of cells in a row in the growing portion of the stipe doubled during the development of the button, and again during the phase of rapid stipe elongation. Also during the stage of rapid elongation the cells in the upper 2/3 of the stipe increased 6–8 fold in length. The existence of a growth regulator synthesized in the cap and exerting control over the stipe was demonstrated through decapitation experiments. The cap appears to be required for normal stipe development until the stipe reaches about 1/4 of its final length. Through decapitation and cap-stipe exchanges it was found that the cap produced growth regulator up to the time of autodigestion; however, the stipe responded to the regulator only during a brief period at the onset of elongation.
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    Archives of microbiology 99 (1974), S. 331-344 
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    Keywords: Myxomycetes ; Ultrastructure ; Development ; Systematics ; Food Vacuoles ; Stalk Development
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    Notes: Abstract Observations of sporophore development in fresh and glutaraldehydeosmium sequentially-fixed material ofProtophysarum phloiogenum show the following sequence. Small plasmodia cease streaming and round up. Food vacuoles collect in the lower center of the cytoplasmic mass. As the cytoplasm rises the food vacuolar contents are excluded from the plasmalemma and become the stalk core. A continuous, fibrous peridium and stalk tube enclose cytoplasm and stalk core respectively. Capillitial formation just precedes spore cleavage. Sporophore development is marked by autophagic activity and calcium deposition. Stalks of dried herbarium specimens of seven additional species have been examined. A mature stalk morphology very similar toProtophysarum with recognizable remnants of microorganismal food material is seen in all of them. It is thought that this marker is indicative of non-stemonitaceous stalk development.
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    Archives of microbiology 99 (1974), S. 155-166 
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    Keywords: cAMP ; Acanthamoeba ; Development
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Durch drei verschiedene Methoden wurde in Kulturen vonAcanthamoeba castellanii die stationäre Wachstumsphase, in deren Verlauf sich Trophozoiten zu Cysten entwickeln, induziert: Durch Nahrungsmangel, indem Amöben der logarithmischen Wachstumsphase in ein nährstofffreies Medium überführt wurden, durch Sauerstoffmangel, indem Kulturen zu großer Zelldichte heranwuchsen, und durch Hemmung der mitochondrialen DNS-Synthese, indem Kulturen der logarithmischen Phase mit Äthidiumbromid versetzt wurden. Unabhängig von den Encystierungsbedingungen nimmt die intracelluläre Konzentration von Adenosin-3′,5′-monophosphat (cAMP) bei Verminderung der Zellteilungsrate bis zu Beginn der stationären Wachstumsphase um das 2–3 fache zu. Die Ergebnisse deuten an, daß der Anstieg von intracellulärem cAMP auf eine Erhöhung der Adenylat-Cyclase- und nicht auf eine Verminderung der Phosphodiesterase-Aktivität zurückzuführen ist. Extracelluläres cAMP konnte weder in Kulturen der logarithmischen noch in Kulturen der stationären Phase nachgewiesen werden. Dies ist vermutlich auf die extracellulär vorhandene cAMP-Phosphodiesterase zurückzuführen. Die Tatsache, daß auch durch Theophyllin die stationäre Wachstumsphase und Encystierung induziert werden kann, läßt auf eine Beteiligung von cAMP an den Entwicklungsprozessen, speziell an dem Abbau von Glykogen, schließen.
    Notes: Abstract In cultures ofacanthamoeba castellanii the stationary growth phase in which trophozoites develop to cysts, was induced in three ways: by transferring cells from a logarithmic growing culture into a nutrient-free medium, by growth in nutrient medium to high cell density and by inhibition of the mitochondrial DNA synthesis with ethidium bromide. In all cases, the intracellular concentration of adenosine-3′,5′-monophosphate (cAMP) rises by a factor of two to three from the end of the logarithmic phase to the beginning of the stationary phase. The results show that this rise may be more a consequence of an increased adenylate cyclase activity than of a diminished cAMP phosphodiesterase activity. No extracellular cAMP could be measured in cultures of the logarithmic and stationary growth phase, perhaps because of the extracellular cAMP phosphodiesterase. Because theophylline also induces the stationary phase and encystation, cAMP seems to be of importance for the development ofAcanthamoeba castellanii, especially for the degradation of glycogen.
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    Archives of microbiology 101 (1974), S. 391-399 
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    Keywords: Adenosinephosphate System ; Energy Charge ; Acanthamoeba ; Development
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die Konzentration von Adenosintri-, Adenosindi- und Adenosinmonophosphat wurde in Acanthamoeba castellanii währed der logarithmischen Wachstumsphase und der stationären Wachstumsphase, in deren Verlauf sich Trophozoiten zu Cysten entwickeln, bestimmt. Der Entwicklungsprozess wurde durch drei verschiedene Methoden hervorgerufen: Durch Wachstum im Nährmedium zu großer Zelldichte, durch Überführen von Amöben der logarithmischen Wachstumsphase in ein nährstoffreies Salzmedium und durch Versetzen logarithmisch wachsender Amöben mit Äthidiumbromid. In allen Fällen wird der Adenosinphosphat-Gehalt in den Zellen im Laufe der Entwicklung um etwa 85% reduziert, wozu besonders die Abnahme des ATP-Gehaltes beiträgt. Die Adenosinphosphat-“energy charge” beträgt in logarithmisch wachsenden Amöben 0,83. Im Laufe der Entwicklung wird sie je nach Encystierungsbedingungen auf unterschiedlichen Werten stabilisiert (zwischen 0,58 und 0,81). Die Möglichkeit eines Zusammenhanges von Konzentrationsveränderungen der Adenosinphosphate und entwicklungsspezifischen Prozessen wird diskutiert.
    Notes: Abstract The concentration of adenosine tri-, adenosine di-, and adenosine monophosphate in cells of Acanthamoeba castellanii was measured during the logarithmic growth phase and the stationary growth phase in which trophozoites were transformed into cysts. This developmental process was induced in three ways: by growth in nutrient medium to high cell density, by transferring cells in the logarithmic phase into a nutrient-free medium, and by mixing logarithmically growing cells with ethidium bromide. In all cases, encystment is accompanied with a reduction of total adenosine phosphate content to about 85%, mainly because of a depletion of cellular ATP. The value of the adenosine phosphate energy charge in logarithmically growing amoebae is 0.83. During development the energy charge becomes stabilized at different values (between 0.58 and 0.81), characteristic to the mode of encystation. A possible functional relationship between changes of the adenosine phosphate concentration and developmental processes of the amoeba is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 147 (1974), S. 325-334 
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    Keywords: Chordotonal (Tracheal) organ ; Teleogryllus commodus (Orthoptera) ; Hearing ; Development ; Structure
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    Notes: Summary The tracheal organ of the mesothoracic tibia of Teleogryllus is located in a corresponding position to the tympanal organ of the prothoracic tibia. The mesothoracic organ contains an average of only 12 scolopidia, the location of which corresponds to that of the proximal group A and proximal main group in the prothoracid tympanal organ. There are no scolopidia corresponding to the distal group of the tympanal organ. The variability in number of scolopidia is much greater in the mesothoracic organ than in the prothoracic organ. The adult tracheal system of the mesothoracic leg resembles the early nymphal tracheal system in both pro- and meso-thoracic legs. The development of the tracheal organ is usually complete by the sixth instar. The mesothoracic tracheal organ of the adult is broadly equivalent to the prothoracic tympanal organ of a fifth instar animal.
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    Cell & tissue research 148 (1974), S. 535-550 
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    Keywords: Synaptosomes ; Rat brain stem ; Synaptogenesis ; Development ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure and protein content of the five subfractions of the crude mitochondrial fraction from the brain stem of the 1-day old and adult rat was examined. The morphological composition of the subfractions after fixation in glutaraldehyde and osmiumtetroxide in the adult rat brain stem resembled that previously reported for the whole brain; synaptosomes sedimented in a sucrose gradient in subfractions C and D. In the 1-day old rat, mature synaptosomes were found in subfractions A, B, C and D; E contained mainly free mitochondria. 80–95% of the processes in the adult and 10–30% in the 1-day old rat contained synaptic vesicles which were of four types: (1) small agranular vesicles (2) large dense core vesicles (3) large agranular vesicles (4) coated vesicles. Pre- and postsynaptic membrane thickenings were demonstrated in many nerve-ending particles. In the subfractions of the 1-day old rat the protein content was one half and the distribution resembled that in the adult. Evidently nerve endings develop faster in the brain stem than in cortical areas; a serotoninor adrenergic origin of the early synaptosomes is suggested.
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    Cell & tissue research 150 (1974), S. 425-442 
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    Keywords: Glandula submandibularis (Mouse) ; Acinar ultrastructure ; Cell types ; Development ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The development of the submandibular gland of the mouse was studied by means of electron microscopy, from the 14th day of gestation up to birth. In the first two days the acini are solid and their cells contain polyribosomes and a few lamellae of endoplasmic reticulum. Beginning with the 16th day secretory granules appear and rapidly fill an increasing number of cells. The different electron density of the granules makes it possible to distinguish 1. two types of granules, dense and pale, and sometimes intermediate ones, 2. “polymorphic” granules. The latter consists of electron dense and electron pale parts combined in different configurations. The possible significance of the various types of granules is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 151 (1974), S. 433-456 
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    Keywords: Juxtaglomerular apparatus (Rat) ; Development ; Renin ; Pools ; Electron microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die perinatale Entwicklung des juxtaglomerulären Apparates, insbesondere das Verhalten der epitheloiden Zellen wurde an 18 trächtigen Ratten and 65 Embryonen bzw. Jungtieren elektronenmikroskopisch untersucht. Parallel dazu wurde die Reninkonzentration bzw. der Reningehalt bestimmt. Spezifische Sekretgranula finden sich erstmals am 18. Tag der Fetalzeit, und zwar in den epitheloiden Zellen des juxtaglomerulären Apparates juxtamedullärer Nephrone. Die Granula machen einen Struktur- und wahrscheinlich auch Funktionswandel durch, der eine Einteilung in drei verschiedene Granulatypen nahelegt. Diesen drei Typen spezifischer (reninhaltiger) Sekretgranula werden die Lysosomen als unspezifische Einschlüsse der epitheloiden Zellen gegenübergestellt. Im einzelnen kommt es während der perinatalen Phase in den fetalen Epitheloidzellen zuerst, d.h. pränatal, zu einer Hypertrophie des rauhwandigen endoplasmatischen Retikulums und des Golgi-Apparates. Hierin sehen die Autoren einen Hinweis auf eine erhöhte Proteinsynthese mit entsprechender Zunahme der Transport- und Konzentrationsvorgänge. Nach der Geburt findet sich dann auch eine deutliche Zunahme der Sekretgranula vom Typ III, die als reife Reningranula (mature granules) angesehen werden. Die bisher noch nicht beschriebenen kleinen Sekretgranula vom Typ I dagegen kommen in weniger entwickelten Epitheloidzellen häufiger vor. Bestimmungen der Reninverteilung zwischen Zytoplasma und den durch Differential-zentrifugation gewonnenen Granula-Fraktionen ergeben auffallende Parallelen zu den morphologischen Befunden. Diese sprechen im allgemeinen dafür, daß “freies Renin” im Ergasto-plasma und “gebundenes Renin” in den Sekretgranula vorliegt. Mit zunehmendem Alter scheint es außerdem — parallel zur relativen Abnahme des Ergastoplasmas und Zunahme der reifen Reningranula — zu einer Verminderung des extragranulären zugunsten des granulär gebundenen Renins zu kommen.
    Notes: Summary The perinatal development of the Juxtaglomerular apparatus (JGA), with particular reference to the epithelioid cells, was studied. Electron microscopic studies were carried out on 18 gravid rats and 65 embryos with corresponding determinations of renin concentration and the renin contents by bio-assay. Specific secretory granules of the epithelioid cells of the JGA of juxtamedullary nephrons are first observed on the 18th day of gestation. The classification into three types of secretory granules suggests that they undergo a structural and probably also a functional transformation. All three types of secretory granule may be regarded as specific, renin-containing, cytoplasmic organelles. During the last days of gestation, the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus become hypertrophied in epithelioid cells, indicating an increased protein synthesis as well as transport and concentration processes. After birth, there is a definite increase in the number of Type III secretory granules-which may be regarded as mature granules. The small Type I secretory granulesnot previously described-are found more frequently in the immature epithelioid cells. Determinations of the renin distribution in the plasma and in fractions of cytoplasmic constituents (total homogenate, secretory granules) prepared by differential centrifugation showed striking congruence with the morphological findings. It is generally assumed that “soluble renin” occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum and “bound renin” in secretory granules. A shift from extragranular to granular (bound) renin, occurs with increasing age, having its morphological equivalent in the relative decrease of the endoplasmic reticulum and increase in mature secretory granules.
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    Cell & tissue research 153 (1974), S. 115-136 
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    Keywords: Muscle spindles ; Intrafusal fibre types ; Development ; De-efferentation ; Utrastructure
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    Notes: Summary Hind limb muscles were de-efferented in 19 new-born rats by removal of the lumbosacral spinal cord, with preservation of spinal ganglia and their peripheral branches. The juxtaequatorial and polar zones of muscle spindles were studied in different leg muscles 3 to 9 weeks after the operation in order to establish whether intrafusal fibre types would become differentiated after permanent motor denervation. De-efferented intrafusal fibres developed into distinct ultrastructural fibre types similar to those found in control muscles. The nuclear bag type had confluent myofibrils with ill-defined M lines and relatively few mitochondria. The nuclear chain type had discrete myofibrils with prominent M lines, numerous large mitochondria and a more developed sarcotubular system. The fibre type characteristics were sometimes blurred by disarranged cross striation, but they were clearly discernible in 59 out of 69 de-efferented fibres of 31 spindles investigated in the electron microscope. A sample of 220 de-efferented spindles from leg muscles of 6 rats was examined in the light microscope on transverse sections stained for ATPase activity. The difference in the ATPase activity among intrafusal fibre types was marked in about 70% spindles; in contrast to this, no distinct fibre types could be discerned in the population of extrafusal fibres which were stained rather uniformly. In de—efferented spindles-as in normal control spindlesnuclear chain fibres always exhibited high ATPase activity, whereas one of the nuclear bag fibres had low ATPase and the other either low or medium to high ATPase activity. However, the ATPase activity of de-efferented muscles was generally lower than that of normal muscles. It can be concluded that intrafusal fibres do acquire their fibre type characteristics after fusimotor denervation despite complete deprivation of nerve impulse activity during the postnatal period when intrafusal fibre types differentiate in normal spindles.
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    Keywords: Protonephridium ; Pomatoceros triqueter (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sedenta-ria) ; Terminal cell ; Channel cell ; Development
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    Notes: Summary During the development of the intermediate and late gastrula of Pomatoceros triqueter, the terminal and channel cells grow towards each other and form the protonephridium. They interdigitate through lateral microvilli. The junctions between the cells form filtration clefts, which are bridged by fibrils.
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    Cell & tissue research 150 (1974), S. 481-492 
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    Keywords: Seminiferous tubule, ovine ; Lamina propria ; Development ; Endocrine factors ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of the lamina propria in the ovine seminiferous tubule was studied from 54 days (postcoitum) fetuses up to sexual maturity. In young animals (aged about two months) the effect of hypophysectomy and/or hormones was also analyzed. Initially, large areas of the lamina propria already show signs of morphological differentiation. The non cellular component is a single or sometimes double lamella. Outwardly, the cellular component is represented by rounded connective tissue cells or by elongated cells, exhibiting 80 Å filaments in the cytoplasm and arranged in 3 to 4 layers. By the first week after birth, the non cellular component is formed by 8 to 10 lamellae and the cellular component shows typical contractile cells, the fibroblasts being now located only in the periphery. Basically, the same aspect is found in the adult ram, thus differing from the more extensively studied prototypes of lamina propria architecture of rodents or primates. In as much as the sheep lamina propria differentiates precociously, probably induced by fetal testicular hormones, it is relatively insensitive to hypophysectomy or hormonal substitution. Hypophysectomy and cyproterone acetate administration cause intracytoplasmic lipid deposition in the contractile cells, the other components being not changed. Some questions are raised concerning the role of this peculiar lamina propria in the function of the blood-testis barrier.
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    Cell & tissue research 151 (1974), S. 509-523 
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    Keywords: Gill ; Trout ; Secondary lamellae ; Development ; Light and electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary A light and electron microscope study of secondary lamellae of trout developing at 10° C is described. Collagen is secreted by mesenchyme cells in the connective tissue of the developing gill filament. This becomes enclosed in infoldings around the peripheries of mesenchyme cells. These cells become aligned in a single plane within folds of basement membrane and epithelium. The basement membrane of opposite sides of the fold becomes connected by a thick layer of collagen. Blood spaces form around the margin of the fold, connecting afferent and efferent filament blood vessels. Endothelial granules form in cells lining the outer border of the marginal channel when blood flow begins. Rows of pillar cells separate from the proximal layer of mesenchyme cells as the secondary lamellae develops further. New secondary lamellae are added at the filament tips. At 28 days, the basement membrane consists of 2 layers, a fine fibrous layer and 5–15 orthogonally arranged layers of collagen fibres. By 31 days, the collagen is arranged at random and the layer is thinner. A clear layer is also present by 67 days. A multilayered epithelium containing mucous and chloride cells is present at 28 days. By 102 days, the secondary lamellae are covered by 2 layers of epithelial cells only. Chloride cells are present in much greater numbers in developing gills than in the adult.
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    Cell & tissue research 152 (1974), S. 13-30 
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    Keywords: Human fetal pineal gland ; Development ; Secretion ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of the pineal gland of 18 human fetuses (crown-rump lengths 30–178 mm) was investigated. The pineal gland exhibits a pyramidal shape and consists of an anterior and posterior lobe. Only one parenchymal cell type, the pinealocyte, was observed. Few neuroblasts were seen between the pinealocytes and in the extended perivascular space. The pinealocytes possess all the organelles necessary for hormone synthesis. No specific secretory granule could be observed. The organ is abundantly vascularized and richly innervated. The morphology of the capillaries indicates the existence of a blood-brain barrier. The ultrastructure of the human fetal pineal gland suggests that the gland has a secretory function in early intrauterine life.
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    Cell & tissue research 147 (1974), S. 313-324 
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    Keywords: Chordotonal organ ; Teleogryllus commodus ; Hearing ; Structure ; Development
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    Notes: Summary The anatomical development of the tympanal organ, the tracheal system and the tympana of Teleogryllus commodus is described. The tympanal organ is undifferentiated until instar 3 when the first scolopales appear. The organ develops in a proximo-distal direction but the more distal groups begin to form before the proximal groups are complete. All groups of scolopidia are represented in instar 7 but numbers of scolopidia continue to increase until the adult stage. Scolopales and scolopale cells are first formed at less than adult size and increase in size during subsequent instars. The subgenual organ is present in instar 1 and is complete in instar 4. The posterior and anterior tympanal trachease develop respectively from the tracheal trunk and tracheal branch, which are present from instar 2. These remain as simple, unconnected tubes until instar 7 and begin to show the adult form during instars 8 and 9, finally enlarging in conjunction with the tympana at the last two moults. The tympana first appear as hairless areas of cuticle in the larval stages: the posterior tympanum in instar 8 and anterior tympanum in instar 10, but the translucent appearance of the adult tympana is not present before the final moult.
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    Rock mechanics and rock engineering 5 (1973), S. 237-248 
    ISSN: 1434-453X
    Keywords: Aggregate ; Compressibility ; Compressive strength ; Particle size ; Rockfill ; Rock Mechanics ; Void Ratio ; Strain ; Stress ; Average particle size ; Compressive strength ; Void ratio ; Initial void ratio ; Final void ratio ; Angularity number ; Uniformity coefficient ; Deformation ; Force ; Modulus of elasticity ; Poisson's ratio ; Aggregat ; Kompressibilität ; Druckfestigkeit ; Körnung ; Steinpackung ; Felsmechanik ; Relativer Porenraum ; Verformung ; Spannung ; Korndurchmesser ; Druckfestigkeit ; relativer Porenraum ; anfänglicher relativer Porenraum ; endrelativer Porenraum ; Eckigkeit ; Ungleichförmigkeitsgrad ; Verformung ; Kraft ; Elastizitätsmodul ; Poisson-Zahl ; Agrégat ; Compressibilité ; résistance à la compression ; taille des particules ; enrochement ; mécanique des roches ; indice des vides ; déformation ; contrainte ; diamètre des grains ; résistance à la compression ; indice des vides ; indice des vides initial ; indice des vides final ; angulairité ; coefficient d'uniformité ; déformation ; force ; module d'élasticité ; coefficient de Poisson
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    Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Geosciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Einige Faktoren, die die Kompressibilität von Aggregaten bestimmen Diese Arbeit untersucht die Variablen, die die Kompressibilität von Gesteinsaggregaten bestimmen, und liefert experimentelle Angaben über das Verhalten von Kalkstein-, Dolerit- und Sandsteinproben bis zu 19,0 mm Korngröße. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, daß, während der anfängliche relative Porenraum des Aggregats den Grad der potentiell vorhandenen Kompressionsspannung bestimmt, der durchschnittliche Aggregatsdurchmesser (d m) und die eigentliche Druckfestigkeit (S c) die Kompressibilitäts-Spannungs-Verformungscharakteristik laut der Formel $$\varepsilon \alpha \ln \frac{{\sigma d_m {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}}}{{S_c }}$$ bestimmen.
    Abstract: Résumé Influence de la résistance des particules sur la compression d'un agrégat broyé Les auteurs examinent les paramètres qui affectent la compressibilité des agrégats de roches et présentent des résultats expérimentaux obtenus avec des échantillons de calcaire, de dolérite et de grès, sur l'influence du diamètre des grains en-dessous de 19 mm. Les résultats suggèrent que l'indice des vides initial impose le taux de la déformation à la compression dont on dispose, cependant que le diamètre des grains (d m) et la résistance à la compression (S c) définissen les caractéristiques de la courbe de compressibilité.
    Notes: Summary The Effect of Particle Strength on the Compression of Crushed Aggregate The paper examines the variables controlling the compression of rock aggregates, and presents experimental data on the behaviour of limestone, dolerite and sandstone samples in size ranges up to 19.0 mm. The results suggest that while the initial void ratio of the aggregate determines the degree of compressive strain potentially available, the average aggregate dimension (d m) and intrinsic compressive strength (S c) determine the compressive stressstrain characteristics in the form, $$\varepsilon \alpha \ln \frac{{\sigma d_m {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}}}{{S_c }}$$
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    Calcified tissue international 12 (1973), S. 259-279 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Osteocyte ; Calvarium ; Histology ; Development ; Calcium ; Phosphorus
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Des cartes tissulaires ainsi que les caractéristiques et propriétés cellularires ont été relevées au cours d'une étude de microscopie optique du développement de la calotte cranienne de souris, avant la naissance, jusqu'au 26ème jour. Les population d'ostéocytes de moitiés droite et gauche de ces calottes sont semblables, mais décroissent avec le temps dans un volume donné. De petites plages limitées de matrice osseuse se colorent pour le phosphate (ou carbonate) de façon plus nette que la matrice environnante, qui se colore légèrement après coupe. Les divers types ostéocytaires se distinguent par les réactions histochimiques du calcium et du phosphate, qui sont associés dans les cellules osseuses de façon complexe, variant dans le temps et la localisation. Ces deux constituants ne sont pas toujours présent dans les cellules des diverses régions, ou dans la même localisation dans un type cellulaire donné. En tenant compte des changements visible dans les divers types cellulaires avec le temps, dans des régions données, une hypothèse de “charge” et “décharge” cellulaire est émise.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Anläßlich einer mikroskopischen Studie über die Entwicklung des Mäuse-Calvariums von der Pränatalperiode bis zu 26 Tagen nach der Geburt wurden auch die Gewebetopographie sowie die Charakteristica und Eigenschaften der Zellen aufgezeichnet. Die Osteocyten-populationen in der linken und rechten Hälfte des Calvariums waren sich gleich, nahmen jedoch bei einem gegebenen Volumen mit der Zeit ab. Kleine isolierte Stellen von Knochen-matrix konnten leichter auf Ph sphat (oder Carbonat) angefärbt werden, als die umgebende Matrix, welche sich wohl am Schnitt, nicht aber am ganzen Stück färben ließ. Die verschiedenen Typen von Osteocyten wurden aufgrund histochemischer Calcium- und Phosphat-reaktionen bestimmt. Calcium und Phosphat waren innerhalb der Knochenzellen auf komplexe Art miteinander verbunden, die je nach Zeit und Lagerung unterschiedlich war. Zellen in abgetrennten Bereichen enthielten nicht immer Calcium und Phosphat und beide waren bei einer bestimmten Zellenart auch nicht immer am gleichen Ort abgelagert. Aufgrund der an ausgewählten Stellen beobachteten, zeitlich bedingten Veränderungen innerhalb der verschiedenen Zelltypen wird vorgeschlagen, daß es sich dabei um eine Sequenz von “Ladung” und “Entladung” der Zellen handelt.
    Notes: Abstract Tissue maps, and cell characteristics and properties were recorded in a study under the optical microscope of the development of the mouse calvarium from pre-natal to 26 days. Osteocyte populations in left and right halves of the calvarium were similar, but decreased with time for a given volume. Small isolated areas of bone matrix stained for phosphate (or carbonate) in a more readily available form from that in the surrounding matrix, which could be stained after sectioning but failed to stain in bulk. Osteocyte types were defined on the basis of histochemical methods for calcium and phosphate, which were associated inside bone cells in a complex manner, varying with time and position. The calcium and phosphate were not always present within the cell in discrete regions and were not always present in the same place in a given cell type. On the basis of a study of changes in cell types with time in selected sites a sequence of “loading” and “unloading” is proposed.
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    Keywords: Nervous system ; Stick insect ; Blood-brain barrier ; Development ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The fat body sheath which surrounds the ventral nerve cord of the adult stick insect, Carausius morosus, is absent in the hatchling. Since the haemolymph sodium ion compositions of the two stages are similar, it is suggested that the fat body sheath is not a site of a blood-brain barrier dealing with extra-axonal regulation of sodium. Similarities of ultrastructure in connectives of adults and hatchlings are demonstrated, and tight junctions are shown to occur in perineural cells of both stages. The possible significance of this to the blood-brain barrier of this insect is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 147 (1973), S. 75-85 
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    Keywords: Skeletal muscle ; Denervation ; Development ; Fiber types, myofibrils ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Ultrastructural diversification of muscle fibers, with regard particularly to myofibrillar changes, has been investigated in the fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and the slow-twitch soleus muscles of the rat during fetal and postnatal development in the presence and in the absence of motor innervation. The band pattern and the shape of the myofibrils were uniform in fetal and neonatal muscle fibers and underwent differential changes during the first weeks after birth, concomitantly with fiber type specialization. The most evident variations in myofibrillar structure arising in this period concern the thickness of the Z band and the arrangement of the myofibrils. Myofibril formation was at first not impaired by denervation of rat muscles performed in utero and, although focal disintegration of myofibrils and detachment and loss of orientation of filaments became apparent by one week, atrophic muscle fibers with well-organized myofibrils could be seen as late as 2 months after birth. However, denervated muscle fibers of EDL and soleus did not display any significant and consistent difference in myofibrillar band pattern and shape. No variation in mitochondrial content and sarcoplasmic reticulum development was likewise seen in muscle fibers of EDL and soleus after fetal denervation. The findings emphasize the importance of neuromuscular interactions in muscle differentiation.
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    Cell & tissue research 144 (1973), S. 435-452 
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    Keywords: Muscle spindles ; Intrafusal fibre types ; Development ; Deefferentation ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary Muscle spindles of limb muscles were deefferented in neonatal rats by sectioning ventral roots or by removal of the lumbosacral spinal cord. Ten to 56 days after the operation, muscle spindles were examined in the medial gastrocnemius, extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles. The differentiation of muscle spindles was not affected by deefferentation. The number of spindles in the investigated muscles was not reduced. Intrafusal fibres increased in number from two at birth to four per spindle on the average, as in normal muscles. The characteristic ultrastructural distinctions of nuclear bag and nuclear chain fibres developed as under normal conditions. However, intrafusal fibres atrophied slowly after fusimotor denervation, their polar zones becoming reduced in diameter by about 25% in comparison with control fibre diameters. Spindle capsules, on the other hand, increased in size and attained diameters comparable with normal spindles, appearing even somewhat distended. As intrafusal fibres degenerate after complete denervation at birth (Zelená, 1957), but differentiate in the absence of fusimotor innervation, it can be concluded that sensory nerve terminals induce and support their development. It is assumed that the morphogenetic influence of sensory terminals is mediated by release and uptake of a trophic substance at the synaptic junction. The occurrence of light and dense core vesicles in the sensory terminals and of coated invaginations and vesicles at both the axonal and plasma membrane speak in favour of such a possibility.
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    Cell & tissue research 137 (1973), S. 251-269 
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    Keywords: Synapse ; Development ; Spinal cord ; Amphibian
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    Notes: Summary An electron microscopical study has been made of the cervical spinal cord of Xenopus laevis embryos, from the time that the neural tube closes until the larvae were hatched and could swim. Sections of the whole cord were searched for intercellular junctions during this period. Two nonsynaptic types were found, the first were widely distributed puncta adherentia, the second were rare and similar to “gap” junctions. Membrane specializations with synaptic vesicles were first found when the neural folds had fused; “membrane-vesicle clusters” which looked like the presynaptic half of a synaptic junction were present, together with synaptic junctions lacking any postsynaptic membrane thickening or cytoplasm density. About four hours later, mature synaptic junctions with full thickening of the postsynaptic membrane, dense cytoplasm and striated or dense material in the synaptic cleft were present. Presynaptic mitochondria, dense-cored and flattened vesicles, fibre to fibre and fibre to cell body synapses were present from the first, as were synapses onto very fine dendrites which might be filopodia from dendritic growth cones. Synaptogenesis may start with the accumulation of vesicles in dense cytoplasm near a thickened cell membrane; the postsynaptic element becomes associated with this “membrane-vesicle cluster” and matures by increasing cleft and cytoplasmic density, and by membrane thickening.
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    Keywords: Hypothalamo-hypophysial system ; Development ; Monoamines ; Colour change ; Fluorescence microscopy
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    Notes: Summary In Xenopus laevis the development of hypothalamic monoaminergic cells was studied in relation to adaptation to background colour. The first melanophores appear at stage 33/34 (normal table of Nieuwkoop and Faber, 1956), gradually increasing in number. The melanine granules are dispersed throughout the cell, irrespective of the background colour. The dispersion apparently is caused by MSH released by the developing pars intermedia cells. Between stage 39 and stage 41, larvae placed on a white background changed colour from black to white due to aggregation of the melanine granules within the melanophores. With Falck's method for demonstrating monoamines, a small number of fluorescent cells was observed in the hypothalamus simultaneously with the first background-dependent colour change. These cells were arranged in a paired nucleus, bordering the third ventricle. Initially, the nucleus extends from 50 microns behind the optic chiasma to the lateral dilatations of the third ventricle; 8–10 hours later, similar cells were also found at the lateral dilatations and in the dorso-lateral part of the infundibular lobe. The cells have apical processes protruding in the ventricular lumen. Fluorescent axons, originating from the cells, were occasionally observed. Considering the above-mentioned results in combination with the electron microscopical data of Nyholm (1972), it is concluded that the MSH producing cells are under monoaminergic nervous control from the beginning of background colour adaptation.
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    Keywords: Hypophysis ; Rana temporaria ; Development ; Corticotropin cells, melanotropin cells ; Immunofluorescence
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    Notes: Summary During the embryonic and larval developmental stages of the frog, Rana temporaria L, anti-β 1–24, α 17–39 corticotropine, α and β MSH antibodies were used to define, with immunofluorescence technique, the appearence of corticotropic and melanotropic cells. A very small number of fluorescent corticotropic cells appears for the first time during the embryonic stage (10 mm), just before the differentiation of the pars intermedia. The cells are small, their large nucleus is surrounded by a fine rim of fluorescent cytoplasm. During premetamorphic stage, the anti-ACTH antibodies (anti-β 1–24 and anti-α 17–39 corticotropine) reveal more fluorescent cells in the whole pars distalis. The pars intermedia cells can also be visualized by both antisera. At the end of prometamorphosis and during climax the corticotropic cells show a more precise localization. As in adult frog pars distalis, they are concentrated in the rostral half of the lobe. With the same technique anti-α and β MSH antibodies reveal only the cells of the pars intermedia. No other cell type of the pars distalis reacts with these antibodies. This technique has the advantage to show that the ACTH and the MSH cells appear very early during the embryonic life.
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    Keywords: Sympathetic neurons ; Chromaffin cells ; SIP cells (Newborn rat) ; Development ; Administration of hydrocortisone ; Stretch preparations ; Fluorescence microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Air-dried stretch preparations were used to study adrenergic nerve fibres and catecholamine-containing cells with the formaldehyde-induced fluorescence method in the abdominal tissue block containing the para-aortic paraganglia, in the neurovascular structures of the cervical region including the carotid body, in the bladder, in the ileum, in the mesentery, in the vagus nerve and in the sympathetic ganglia of 5- or 15-day-old rats. The adrenergic nerves and the catecholamine-containing cells were well preserved and showed little or no diffusion of amines. While most intensely fluorescent cells of the main para-aortic body disappeared during the first two postnatal weeks, some such cells survived and they showed long, slender fluorescent processes. Administration of 20 mg/kg of hydrocortisone acetate daily for 5 days after birth caused a striking increase in the number and size of the clusters of the intensely fluorescent cells in the organ of Zuckerkandl, in the sympathetic ganglia and in the bladder, as well as an increase in the fluorescence intensity of the carotid body. In rats treated with hydrocortisone for 5 days and left to recover for 10 days an increased fluorescence was still observed. However, in the organ of Zuckerkandl the intensely fluorescent cells of hydrocortisone-treated 15-day-old rats showed less processes than those of the control rats of the same age.
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    Cell & tissue research 136 (1973), S. 511-520 
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    Keywords: Muscle spindle ; Sensory ending ; Rat ; Development ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary A fine structural study of sternothyroid muscle spindles of young adult rat demonstrates the rare occurrence of unique nerve endings. These endings are situated in the juxta-equatorial region of nuclear-bag fibers, adjacent to the annulo-spiral sensory endings. They consist of a bundle of terminal axons less than 0.3 μ in diameter and appear to be disposed nearly longitudinally to the axis of the intrafusal fibers. Whereas, the annulo-spiral endings consist of a single axon, coiling around the intrafusal fibers. Transverse sections of these muscle spindles reveal these unique endings scattered around the muscle fibers, fitting into depressions on their surface. The innermost axons directly face the muscle surface and are separated by a narrow gap less than 200 Å in width. No Schwann cell process appears to be associated with these endings. From their unique multi-axonal composition, these endings are termed “bundled endings”. Investigations of developing muscle spindles show the occasional presence of a similar multi-axonal composition of sensory endings in perinatal rats. It is suggested that “bundled endings” are sensory in nature, carrying an immature feature over to adult life.
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    Cell & tissue research 140 (1973), S. 145-167 
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    Keywords: Macroglia ; Microglia ; Spinal Cord ; Monkey ; Development
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    Notes: Summary An electron-microscopic study has been made of the glial cells in the developing lateral funiculus of the cervical spinal cord in fetal rhesus monkeys. The various macroglial cell types, their precursor cells, and microglia are discussed in detail. An astrocytic lineage is proposed in which glioblasts present in the lateral funiculus give rise to astroblasts that then develop into mature astrocytes. Oligoblasts apparently migrate into the lateral funiculus as such and develop into active oligocytes. The active oligocytes become most predominant during the initial stages of myelinogenesis and are in direct continuity with developing myelin. The active oligocytes develop into mature oligocytes after myelination is completed. Microglia cells are present throughout development as three forms; resting microglia, globose microglia, and active microglia. The globose and active microglia predominates at specific times early in development when degeneration of apparent neuronal processes is taking place. The microglia cells are characterized by dense nuclear chromatin clumps, lipid inclusion bodies, dense vesicles, and, often, intracellular debris.
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    Cell & tissue research 140 (1973), S. 203-216 
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    Keywords: Synapses ; Development ; Chick embryo ; Cell culture ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The formation and development of synaptic contacts between dissociated chick spinal cord neurons has been investigated. By the 6th day in vitro “immature” profiles with few vesicles were observed. By 14–18 days “mature” types with numerous vesicles were found, indistinguishable from those of newly hatched chick spinal cord. After this period degeneration occurred, and was especially marked in the post-synaptic element. Such degeneration could be postponed by the addition of small numbers of somatic muscle cells. The Kanaseki and Kadota (1969) technique was applied to the study of coated vesicles at various stages of synaptic development.
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    Keywords: Neuromuscular junction ; Development ; Cholinesterases ; Axonal transport, Neurotubules, Colchicine, Vinblastine ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Colchicine (0.1 M) or vinblastine (0.01 M) was locally applied on the sciatic nerves of newborn rats. Both colchicine and vinblastine caused reversible disappearance of axonal neurotubules and appearance of increased amounts of neurofilaments at the site of application. Subsequent morphogenesis of myoneural junctions in the tibialis anterior muscle was studied after histochemical demonstration of acetylcholinesterase (AChE; E.C. 3.1.1.7) and non-specific cholinesterase (Ns. ChE; E.C. 3.1.1.8) activity in the myoneural area. Development of the postsynaptic muscle plasma membrane of the myoneural junction was arrested in the ipsilateral, but not in the contralateral control side, for a period of about three weeks following treatment with the test substances. After this delay the myoneural morphogenesis continued normally and neurotubules were seen in the axoplasm. Since disruption of neurotubules is likely to cause blockage of the intratubular axoplasmic transport system, it seems possible that the neurotrophic influence responsible for the development of the postsynaptic muscle membrane is mediated through a secretory product transported along axons intratubularly to the nerve endings.
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    Keywords: Pars tuberalis ; Rat ; Development ; Secretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The development of the pars tuberalis was studied in the rat fetus from 13 days of gestation to 6 weeks after birth. After the closure of Rathke's pouch, the pars tuberalis anlage is clearly distinguishable from the anlagen of the partes intermedia and distalis. It comprises the entire basal portion of the adenohypophysial anlage; the limit between the anlagen of the pars tuberalis and the pars distalis is defined by Atwell's recess, i.e. the pathway taken by the hypophysial vessels coming from the vascular plexus of the median eminence. At 14 days the pars tuberalis cells are characterized by the presence of glycogen which persists in the adult. Their secretory differentiation (elaboration of granules with a diameter of 100–120 nm) is obvious at 15 days of gestation. It therefore, clearly precedes that of the other hypophysial cell types. Its functional differentiation takes place well before its adhesion to the primary vascular plexus of the portal system. Cystic formations appear just before birth in the pars tuberalis, much later than those of the pars distalis. These observations on the development of the pars tuberalis, together with previous observations on the adult PT in various species, showing that the specific glandular cells of the pars tuberalis are cytologically different from all known adenohypophysial cell types, seem to indicate a specific endocrine function of this lobe.
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    Calcified tissue international 9 (1972), S. 122-130 
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    Keywords: Tetracycline ; Development ; Calcification ; Statolith ; Nematocysts ; Aurelia
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'effet de la tétracycline HCl sur la synthèse de statolithes de sulfate de calcium chezAurelia a été étudié. La tétracycline inhibe la synthèse de statolithes et nématocystes à un stade précoce de strobilation. La tétracycline, cependant, n'est pas incorporée dans les statolithes ou nématocystes en formation. Comme la tétracycline ne se combine pas avec le calcium des statolithes de sulfate de calcium dihydraté d'Aurelia, l'explication des effets d'inhibition sur la différenciation de statolithes et nématocystes ne semble pas liée avec un facteur en rapport avec l'incorporation. Des étudesin vitro de quatre systèmes inorganiques de calcium et de tétracycline montrent que le sulfate de calcium dihydraté (gypse) n'incorpore pas la tétracycline: il en est de même de son équivalent isostructural, le phosphate de calcium hydrogéné dihydraté (brushite). Le carbonate de calcium et le phosphate de calcium (apatite) incorpore la tétracycline. L'explication des différences de comportement du calcium peut être liée à la structure cristalline des composés respectifs, et, en particulier, au fait que l'ion Ca est prêt ou non à réagir avec la tétracycline.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Es wird über die Wirkung von Tetracyclinchlorhydrat auf die Synthese von Calciumsulfat-Statolithen beiAurelia berichtet. Wird das Tetracyclin in einem Frühstadium der Strobilation verabreicht, so hemmt es die Synthese der Statolithen und der Nematocysten. Das Tetracyclin wird jedoch nicht in die sich bildenden Statolithen oder Nematocysten eingebaut. Da sich das Tetracyclin nicht mit dem Calcium der Calciumsulfatdihydrat-Statolithen derAurelia verbindet, so kann dessen Hemmwirkung auf die Statolithen und die sich differenzierenden Nematocysten offenbar nicht mit einem einbaubedingten Faktor erklärt werden. Untersuchunge, die in vitro mit vier verschiedenen anorganischen Calciumsalzen und Tetracyclin ausgeführt wurden, zeigten, daß weder Calciumsulfatdihydrat (Gips), noch dessen isotrukturelles Aequivalent Calciumhydrogenphosphatdihydrat (Bruschit) Tetracyclin einbauen. Dagegen inkorporieren Calciumcarbonat und Calciumphosphat (Apatit) das Tetracyclin. Die Erklärung für dieses unterschiedliche Verhalten der Calciumsalze findet sich in der Kristallstruktur der betreffenden Verbindungen, d.h. es hängt davon ab, ob das Calciumion ür die Reaktion mit Tetracyclin leicht verfügbar ist.
    Notes: Abstract The effect of tetracycline HCl on synthesis of calcium sulphate statoliths inAurelia is reported. Tetracycline inhibits synthesis of statoliths and nematocysts when administered at an early stage of strobilation. The tetracycline, however, is not incorporated into the developing statoliths or nematocysts. As the tetracycline does not combine with the calcium of the calcium sulfate dihydrate statoliths ofAurelia, an explanation for its inhibitory effects on statoliths and nematocyst differentiation apparently does not rest with an incorporation-related factor. In vitro studies of four inorganic calcium systems and tetracycline revealed that calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum) did not incorporate tetracycline nor did its isostructural equivalent, calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate (brushite). Calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate (apatite) did incorporate tetracycline. The explanation for these different behaviors of calcium can be found in the crystal structure of the respective compounds, namely, whether or not the Ca ion is readily available to react with tetracycline.
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    Calcified tissue international 9 (1972), S. 173-178 
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    Keywords: Phosphatase ; Development ; Bone ; Growth ; Rhythm
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Une étude longitudinale, par séries, est effectuée pour déterminer les activités en phosphatases acide et alcaline dans les os longs et la mandibule. Le pH optimum des deux enzymes se situe respectivement à 10.2 et 5.4 pour les phosphatases alcaline et acide. Des portées synchronisées de rats sont sacrifiées, à raison d'une portée par jour, en commençant au premier jour jusqu'au 25ème jour post-partum. Les spécimens sont analysés en ce qui concerne leur concentration en protéine et leur activité en phosphatases. Une activité de types élevée et faible est observée au niveau du tissu osseux, ainsi qu'un type d'activité faible en phosphatase alcaline, au cours des pics d'activité en phosphatase acide, et vice-versa. Les pics observés suggèrent une concordance entre l'activité en phosphatase et les autres changements biochimiques de la croissance osseuse, au niveau de la matrice organique et la formation minérale. Une étude séparée, tenant compte de la possibilité d'une activité enzymatique rythmique, suggère l'existence d'un rythme diurne court chez les animaux jeunes.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Eine serienmäßige Longitudinaluntersuchung wurde unternommen, um die Aktivitäten der alkalischen und sauren Phosphatase in den Röhrenknochen und den Mandibulae von Ratten zu bestimmen. Das pH-Optimum der beiden Enzyme wurde für die alkalische Phosphatase bei 10,2 und für die saure Phosphatase bei 5,4 ermittelt. Synchronisierte und randomisierte Würfe wurden getötet, 1 Wurf pro Tag vom 1.–25. Tag post partum. Die Proben wurden auf ihren Proteingehalt und ihre Phosphatasenaktivität untersucht. Ein Muster niedriger und hoher Aktivität konnte in beiden Knochengeweben beobachtet werden, sowie ein Muster von niedriger Aktivität der alkalischen Phosphatase bei Spitzenwerten der sauren Phosphatase und umgekehrt. Die beobachteten Spitzenwerte lassen einen Zusammenhang vermuten zwischen der Phosphatasenaktivität und den anderen biochemischen Veränderungen, die im wachsenden Knochen auftreten, d. h. Bildung der organischen Matrix und des Minerals. Eine getrennte Untersuchung, welche sich mit der Möglichkeit rhythmischer Merkmale der Enzymaktivität befaßte, läßt vermuten, daß in den ersten Tagen ein schwacher Tagersrhythmus bestehen könnte.
    Notes: Abstract A serial longitudinal study was undertaken to determine the activities of the alkaline and acid phosphatases in the long bones and mandibles. The optimum pH of the two enzymes was recorded at 10.2 and 5.4 for alkaline and acid phosphatase, respectively. Synchronized and randomized litters of rats were killed, 1 litter daily, starting at day 1 to day 25 post partum. Samples were analyzed for protein concentration and activity of the phosphatases. A pattern of low and high activity was observed in both bony tissues, as well as a pattern of low alkaline phosphatase activity during acid phosphatase activity peaks, and vice versa. The observed peaks suggest a correspondence between phosphatase activity and the other biochemical changes occurring in the growing bone, i.e., organic matrix and mineral formation. A separate study, considering the possibility of rhythmic features of the enzyme activity suggests that there may be a small diurnal rhythm at an early age.
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    Calcified tissue international 9 (1972), S. 163-172 
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    Keywords: Bone ; Formation ; Resorption ; Stress ; Parathyroid ; Hypocalcemia
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'effet d'une alimentation, riche en calcium, par rapport à un régime sans calcium, est déterminé au niveau de la diaphyse tibiale chez le rat. Le régime sans calcium provoque une augmentation de la région médullaire et l'administration consécutive d'un régime riche en calcium provoque une diminution de cette région. Cependant, la proportion d'endoste perdue en 10 jours de régime sans calcium n'est pas reconstituée après 78 jours de régime riche en calcium. La diminution de zone médullaire est en rapport avec la diminution de résorption de l'endoste et surtout avec une apposition augmentée de l'endoste. La formation osseuse périostée et épiphysaire est inchangée: ce qui indique que le régime, riche en calcium, ne provoque pas une augmentation généralisée de l'ostéogenèse. L'augmentation de la formation d'endoste est limitée aux régions d'endoste les plus résorbées, au cours de la période de manque en calcium. Ce fait indique qu'un facteur local est partiellement responsable de la stimulation de l'apposition osseuse de l'endoste pendant cette période. Un stress mécanique, qui stimule la formation osseuse, est augmenté chez les animaux privés de calcium et revient à la normale après administration de calcium. De plus, le stress mécanique est probablement le plus important dans les régions d'apposition osseuse et pourrait constituer le facteur local, responsable de l'augmentation de l'endoste, pendant l'administration de calcium.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Bei Ratten, die nach einer Calcium-freien eine Calcium-reiche Diät erhielten, wurden die hieraus resultierenden Veränderungen der Tibia-Diaphyse bestimmt. Das Calcium-freie Futter verursachte eine Zunahme des Markraumes und die anschließende Verfütterung einer Calcium-reichen Diät hatte eine Reduktion des Markraumes zur Folge. Die Menge des endostalen Knochens, die während der 10 tägigen Verfütterung der Calcium-freien Diät verloren ging, war jedoch nach 78 Tagen Calcium-reicher Diät nicht voll ersetzt. Die Abnahme des Markraumes wurde durch eine geringere endostale Knochenresorption und besonders durch eine erhöhte endostale Knochenbildung hervorgerufen. Die Knochenbildung am Periost und an den Epiphysen war unverändert, ein Zeichen dafür, daß die Calcium-reiche Diät keine generalisierte Zunahme der Knochenbildung zur Folge hatte. Die Zunahme der endostalen Knochenbildung beschränkte sich auf jene Bereiche entlang dem Endost, wo während der Calcium-Mangelperiode am meisten Knochensubstanz verloren gegangen war. Dies weist darauf hin, daß ein lokaler Faktor mindestens teilweise verantwortlich ist für die Stimulierung von endostaler Knochenbildung während der Calcium-Sättigungsperiode. Die mechanische Belastung, welche die Knochenbildung anregt, war bei Calcium-armen Tieren erhöht und kehrte während der Calcium-Sättigung wieder zur Norm zurück. Zusätzlich war die mechanische Belastung wohl dort am größten, wo die stärkste Knochenbildung stattfand, und diese Belastung könnte somit als der lokale Faktor angesprochen werden, welcher während der Calcium-Sättigungsperiode zur gesteigerten endostalen Knochenbildung beitrug.
    Notes: Abstract The changes in the tibial diaphysis as a result of feeding a high calcium diet to rats previously fed a calcium free diet were determined. The calcium free diet resulted in an increase in the medullary area, and the subsequent feeding of a high calcium diet caused a reduction in medullary area. However, the amount of endosteal bone lost during ten days of feeding a calcium free diet was not completely restored after 78 days of feeding a high calcium diet. The decrease in medullary area was brought about by decreased endosteal bone resorption and particularly by increased endosteal bone formation. Bone formation at the periosteum and at the epiphyses were unchanged, indicating that the high calcium diet did not cause a generalized increase in bone formation. The increase in endosteal bone formation was limited to those sites along endosteum where greatest loss of bone had occurred during the calcium depletion period. This indicates that a local factor is at least partially responsible for the stimulation of endosteal bone formation during calcium repletion. Mechanical stress, which stimulates bone formation, was increased in calcium deficient animals and returned to normal during calcium repletion. In addition, mechanical stress was probably greatest in those sites where the greatest amount of bone repletion occurred and may have been the factor which contributed to the increase in endosteal bone formation during calcium repletion.
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    Keywords: SIF-cells ; Short adrenergic neurons ; Biogenic amines ; Osmiophilic granules ; Innervation of uterus ; Development
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    Notes: Summary A study was made of the ultrastructure of the paracervical (Frankenhäuser) ganglion of the newborn rat, using immersion fixation by glutaraldehyde (2.5%) followed by OsO4 (1%), or KMnO4 (3%) fixation. The cells containing dense—core vesicles were divided into three groups: (1) primitive sympathetic cells, (2) cells containing some dense-core vesicles 700–1100 Å in size and structurally resembling sympathetic neurons, called principal neurons, and (3) cells containing many dense-core vesicles with a larger, darker dense core, 800–2000 Å in diameter, called granule-containing cells. Using glutaraldehyde-osmium fixation, the principal neurons were further divided into dark and light cells on the basis of electron opacity of the cytoplasmic matrix. The granule-containing cells were believed to correspond to the small, intensely fluorescent cells (SIF-cells) previously described using the formaldehyde-induced fluorescence technique. On the basis of the amount of granules, the granulecontaining cells were classified as mature or maturing SIF-cells and as more primitive SIF-cells, and developing sympathicoblasts. The development of synapses in autonomic ganglia was discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 127 (1972), S. 323-346 
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    Keywords: Thymus ; Frog ; Development ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary A study of the ultrastructure of the developing thymus of the leopard frog (Rana pipiens) revealed that the thymus had undergone all of the major changes which would persist through larval life and metamorphosis by the time that the animals had reached larval stage IV of Taylor and Kollros (1946). These changes included development of an outer, lymphoid cortical region and an inner, essentially nonlymphoid medulla; mitotic activity among lymphoid cell precursors and the formation of the first small lymphocytes; development of complex cysts containing PAS-positive material and the appearance of other signs of secretory activity among epithelial cells of the medulla; and differentiation of large myoid cells containing bundles of striated muscle fibrils. The changes are particularly noteworthy because they first appear during a period in which the animals are known to be developing the capacity to respond immunologically to allografts.
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    Cell & tissue research 128 (1972), S. 555-563 
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    Keywords: Astrocytes ; Capillaries ; Spinal cord ; Blood brain barrrier ; Development
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    Notes: Summary Glio-vascular relationships were studied in the developing rat cervical spinal cord with electron microscopy. Capillaries were first evident on the eleventh prenatal day and were surrounded by undifferentiated cells and neuroblasts separated from the capillary wall by a perivascular space. This space persisted until day thirteen, when basement membranes began to appear. Small cellular processes containing glycogen were visible adjacent to the capillary basement membrane beginning at day fifteen and became more prominent as development proceeded. The origin of these cellular processes was not apparent, but they were most likely collaterals of epithelial elements. In prenatal animals neuroblasts or neurons were in direct contact with the capillary basement membrane. Cells resembling adult astrocytes were first observed during the nineteenth day. Astrocytic processes completely invested the capillaries, separating them from neurons in the spinal cord of all postnatal animals.
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    Cell & tissue research 129 (1972), S. 278-289 
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    Keywords: Midgut epithelium ; Insects ; Development ; Metamorphosis ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructural alterations in the anterior midgut epithelium of the fly Calliphora were investigated by electron microscopy. Nine developmental stages, from late larval to late adult, were studied. During metamorphosis, a tube is formed by proliferation of undifferentiated cells residing in cell nests in the basal part of the larval epithelium. The process of microvillus formation is described and compared with that in the embryonic stage. Differences between larval and imaginal cells were found in the rate of microvillus formation and in the occurrence of dense vesicles. The formation of a basal labyrinth coincides roughly with microvillus formation. Glycogen deposits occur mainly in the pupal stage and are almost always absent after emergence. Epithelial crypts are formed in late pupae by modification of the existing layer of cells together with a localized development of muscle fibres. In the adult stage changes may take place in the form of the cell apex, which generally assumes a more pointed shape, and in the amount of osmiophilic material, aggregating almost exclusively in the supranuclear part of the cell.
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    Cell & tissue research 124 (1972), S. 433-444 
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    Keywords: Insect ; Fat body ; Development ; Protein body ; Electron microscopy ; Histochemistry ; Lipoprotein ; Cytology ; Lipid globule ; Silkworm
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    Notes: Summary A developmental study at the electron microscopic level was conducted of the fat body cells of Hyalophora cecropia (L.). During the last larval instar the fat body increases in volume and the cells exhibit a well developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and protein bodies of diverse sizes. In the pupal fat body, the protein bodies appear to be enclosed by a double membrane and contain glycogen granules, ribosomes and mitochondrion-like structures. In addition, there are large lipid globules, cytolysomes and rough endoplasmic reticulum. The ultrastructure of the protein bodies suggests the development of large bodies by fusion of smaller protein bodies. Changes in fat body cell ultrastructure were followed during adult development and cytological evidence was obtained for the depletion of protein, glycogen and lipid in the female during this period. The female adult fat body cell contains free ribosomes, protein bodies, many mitochondria, a few lipid globules and glycogen granules. The male moth fat body cells have many mitochondria, a few glycogen granules, essentially no protein bodies, but an abundance of large lipid globules. Studies on the influence of egg maturation on the morphology of the fat body of Hyalophora gloveri (L.) revealed that ovariectomy of pupae yielded adults having more fat body than normal females, and that the fat body cells of the ovariectomized animals contained more glycogen, lipid and protein. Male pupae receiving ovarian implants developed into adults containing eggs and possessed more fat body than normal females but less than normal males. Very few glycogen granules were found in the fat body cells of normal males or males with implanted ovaries.
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    Cell & tissue research 129 (1972), S. 217-236 
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    Keywords: Olfactory sensilla ; Insects ; Development
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung 1. 1. Der cuticuläre Apparat der basiconischen Sensillen von Necrophorus wird von 4 Zellen gebildet. Hüllzelle 1 bildet die Dendritenscheide, die trichogene Zelle den von Poren durchsetzten Teil des Haares, die tormogene Zelle die porenfreie Haarbasis und Hüllzelle 4 Sockel und Ringwall des Sensillums. 2. 2. Die Entwicklung der Haaranlage wird durch einen Wachstumsschub des von einer Scheide umgebenen Dendriten eingeleitet. Dieser Wachstumsschub ist der Längenzunahme des Dendriten während der Häutung bei Hemimetabolen homolog. 3. 3. Die trichogene Zelle umschließt den Dendriten nur bis zu 2 μ oberhalb der Epitheloberfläche und wächst dann neben ihm zur vollen Länge des künftigen Haares aus. Mit Abscheidung der Cuticulinschicht degeneriert das freie Ende von Dendrit und Scheide. 4. 4. Die Anlage des Poren-Tubulus-Systems beginnt mit der Abscheidung der Cuticulinschicht. Bei Erreichen von ca. 30% der Haarwandstärke sind auch die Porentubuli ausgebildet. Der äußere Liquorraum entsteht durch Zurückweichen der trichogenen Zelle aus dem neu gebildeten Haar. Der Dendrit wächst innerhalb der sich zurückziehenden trichogenen Zelle in das Haar ein. Wenige Stunden nach dem Schlüpfen beginnt sich der Dendrit durch Vesikulierung und anschließende Vesikelfusion in ca. 50 Äste aufzuspalten.
    Notes: Summary 1. 1. The cuticular apparatus of the basiconic sensilla in Necrophorus is built up by four cells: the enveloping cell No. 1 secretes the dendritic sheath, the trichogen cell produces the part of the hair with pores, the tormogen cell the hairbase without pores, and the enveloping cell No. 4 produces the base and the ringwall of the sensillum. 2. 2. The development of the hair starts with the growth of the sheathed dendrite. This growth is homologue to the increase in length of the dendrite during moulting in hemimetabole insects. 3. 3. The trichogen cell surrounds the dendrite only up to 2 μ distal of the epithelial surface and then grows beside the dendrite to the full length of the future hair. After having secreted the cuticulin layer the free ends of sheath and dendrite degenerate. 4. 4. The development of the pore tubules system begins with the secretion of the cuticulin layer. When the hairwall has reached 30% of its thickness the pore tubules are fully developed. The outer liquor space is formed by withdrawal of the trichogen cell from the newly built hair. The dendrite grows into the hair inside the retreating trichogen cell. Few hours after emerging from the pupa the dendrite begins to split into about 50 branches: between the microtubules of the dendrite many vesicles arise which then fuse into continuous interspaces.
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    Calcified tissue international 7 (1971), S. 267-276 
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    Keywords: Tech ; Development ; Enamel ; Enzyme ; Histochemistry
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'activité en naphtylamidase est étudiéc au niveau des incisives et molaires de rat, à divers stades de développement. Du L-leucyl-4-methoxy-2-naphtylamide, du L-alanyl-4-methoxy-2-naphtylamide, du L-leucyl-2-naphthylamide et du DL-alanyl-2-naphtylamide sont utilisés comme substrats: du bleu rapide B et du grenat rapide GBC sont employés comme sels de diazonium. Le naphtylamidase n'est pas visible au niveau de dents, en voie de dévelopment, au cours de la formation matricielle de l'émail. A la fin de ce stade, le naphtylamidase est présent au niveau de l'extrémité distale des améloblastes, près de la surface de l'émail. L'activité enzymatique reste identique jusqu'au moment de la fusion de l'épithélium dentaire et de l'épithélium buccal, au moment de l'éruption de la dent dans la cavité buccale. On ne rencontre pas de naphtylamidase au niveau d'autres tissues dentaires; cependant une activité marquée est observée dans les ostéoclastes au niveau des surfaces de résorption de l'os alvéolaire, entourant les dents, en voie de développement et d'éruption, et dans certaines régions du tissu conjonctif.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Aktivität der Naphthylamidase wurde in den Backen- und Schneidezähnen von Ratten in verschiedenen Entwicklungsstufen studiert. Als Substrate wurden L-leucyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamid, L-alanyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamid, L-leucyl-2-naphthylamid und DL-alanyl-2-naphthylamid verwendet; als Diazoniumsalze dienten Echtblau B und Echt-Granat GBC. Naphthylamidase konnte während der Schmelzmatrixbildung im Zahn nicht nachgewiesen werden. Nach Abschluß dieser Phase erschien Naphthylamidase in den distalen Enden der Ameloblasten, nahe bei der Schmelzoberfläche. Die Enzymtätigkeit blieb am selben Ort lokalisiert, bis das Zahnepithel, im Augenblick wo der Zahn in die Mundhöhle durchstößt, in das Mundepithel überging. Naphthylamidase wurde in anderen Zahngeweben nicht gefunden, aber eine deutliche Aktivität konnte in gewissen Bezirken des Bindegewebes sowie in den Osteoklasten der resorbierenden Oberflächen vom alveolären Knochen festgestellt werden, welcher die sich bildenden und die hervorstoßenden Zähne umgibt.
    Notes: Abstract Naphthylamidase activity was studied in rat molar and incisor teeth at different stages of development. L-leucyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamide, L-alanyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamide, L-leucyl-2-naphthylamide and DL-alanyl-2-naphthylamide were used as substrates and Fast blue B and Fast Garnet GBC as diazonium salts. Naphthylamidase was not demonstrable in the teeth during enamel matrix formation. After the termination of this stage, naphthylamidase was present in the ameloblasts in their distal ends close to the enamel surface. The enzyme activity retained this localization until the dental epithelium fused with the oral epithelium at the time of tooth eruption into the oral cavity. Naphthylamidase was not found in other dental tissues, but marked activity was found in osteoclasts at the resorbing surfaces of alveolar bone surrounding the developing and erupting teeth and in certain areas of the connective tissue.
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  • 95
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    Keywords: Chemoreceptor ; Locusta ; Fine structure ; Development ; Moulting
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    Notes: Summary The basic structure of the terminal sensilla of Locusta migratoria resembles that of Schistocerca gregaria. There are commonly six or ten neurons whose dendrites extend almost to the opening of the peg. Proximally the dendrites are clothed by a neurilemma cell which also encloses a basal cavity through which their ciliary region passes. The tormogen cell encloses the receptor-lymph cavity and actively secretes material into it. The receptor-lymph cavity and the basal cavity are quite separate. The development of new pegs at a moult is described. After apolysis the scolopale extends across the subcuticular space and protects the dendrites, which remain in a functional condition until shortly before ecdysis. As the trichogen cell grows out to form a new peg the tip is surrounded by a mass of electron-dense material, probably derived from the receptorlymph cavity. The function of this material is unknown. Regeneration of the dendrites is considered. The possible mechanism by which the tip of the peg opens and closes is considered and the general structure of the organule is discussed in relation to functioning.
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    Cell & tissue research 113 (1971), S. 558-563 
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    Keywords: Pterin layer ; Pigmentation ; Dermis ; Development ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The fine structure of the pterin layer was investigated in both wild type Rana pipiens and Rana pipiens homozygous for the speckle mutant gene. No difference in morphology of the layer was noted between the wild type and mutant. The layer lines the outer surface of the stratum compactum of the dermis and separates this stratum from the stratum spongiosum. The pterin layer consists of extra-cellular material and contains membrane-bounded granules filled with fine spicules. Many of the spicules are somewhat similar in appearance to the initial calcification loci present in developing membrane bone. The layer first appears in the tadpole at approximately stage 14 (Taylor and Kollros, 1946); subsequent developmental stages are described.
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    Cell & tissue research 113 (1971), S. 157-173 
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    Keywords: Prostate ; Development ; Ultrastructure ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary The postnatal development of the rat prostate has been studied with the electron microscope. Major developmental changes begin during the second week after birth and involve organelles associated with the formation of secretions. The amount of granular endoplasmic reticulum and the size of the Golgi complex increase greatly. Large vacuoles that probably contain secretory material are formed, and the lumen of the prostatic acini appears to contain secreted material. Large lysosomes with polymorphic interiors are present as early as 10 days after birth, and they become numerous by the end of the third week. Differences in fine structure between the different lobes of the prostate are detectable in 10–14 day old rats. The subsequent differentiation of the granular endoplasmic reticulum into the forms characteristic of the different prostatic lobes is described. The initial changes in the prostate occur in advance of sexual maturity of the animal, and the adult appearance of the gland is attained by 4–5 weeks after birth.
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    Cell & tissue research 114 (1971), S. 546-556 
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    Keywords: Microvilli ; Small intestine ; Brush border ; Development ; Golgi apparatus
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die Frage, auf welche Weise die Enterocyten des fetalen Rattendünndarms das für die Mikrovillibildung benötigte Membranmaterial liefern, wurde elektronenmikroskopisch untersucht. Es wird angenommen, daß hufeisenförmige Strukturen, die aus mit elektronendichtem Material bedeckten Elementarmembranen bestehen und möglicherweise Längsschnitten durch kappenförmige Gebilde entsprechen, in das apicale Plasmalemm eingebaut werden und für die Bildung der Mikrovillispitzen verantwortlich sind. Diese Annahme gründet sich in erster Linie auf die Feststellung eines nahezu identischen Durchmessers von „Hufeisen“ und Mikrovilli, auf die Lokalisation der „Hufeisen“ im Terminalgespinst und ihr zahlenmäßiges Verhalten während der Mikrovillibildung. Die „Hufeisen“ entstehen im Golgi-Apparat.
    Notes: Summary The origin of membranes required for the formation of microvilli has been investigated electronmicroscopically in enterocytes of fetal rat small intestine. It is assumed that horseshoe-like structures consisting of unit membranes covered with electron-dense material, which probably represent longitudinal sections through cap-like structures, are incorporated into the apical cell membrane and give rise to the tips of microvilli. This assumption is based chiefly on the almost identical diameters of “horseshoes” and microvilli, the localization of “horseshoes” in the terminal web, and the time of appearance and disappearance of “horseshoes” with regard to development of microvilli. There are indications that the “horseshoes” originate in the Golgi apparatus.
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    Cell & tissue research 115 (1971), S. 396-415 
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    Keywords: Human pineal organ ; Development ; Innervation ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary This investigation is concerned with pineal organs of human embryos 60 to 150 days old. At every stage central nerve fibres enter the pineal organ by way of the habenular commissure, but are restricted to the pineal's proximal part. On about the 60th day of the development the sympathetic nervus conarii grows into the distal pole of the pineal organ from a dorso-caudal direction and plays the predominant part in the innervation of the pineal organ. After penetrating, it soon branches out and forms a network in the pineal tissue. Much later, not until the 5th embryonic month, sympathetic nerves appear accompanying the supplying vessels in the perivascular spaces. After a short time these nerves pierce the outer limiting basement membrane and penetrate the parenchyma. Towards the end of the 5th embryonic month the axons of the sympathetic nerves form varicosities containing clear and dense core vesicles. At this point large amounts of laminated granules appear primarily in cell processes, probably of pinealocytes. Isolated granules also occur in the varicosities of axons. The granules encountered here are most likely secretory granules.
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    Cell & tissue research 118 (1971), S. 579-592 
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    Keywords: Bye ; Innervation ; Adrenergic ; Development ; Manuals
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    Notes: Summary The development of adrenergic nerves to the anterior eye segment was studied in human and guinea-pig embryos. Adrenergic terminals had already appeared in the earliest human embryos available (4–6 cm). They first appeared mainly in nerve trunks in the primitive chorioid, especially in the region of the developing ciliary body. Adrenergic nerves then grow into different structures of the eye as these develop, but typical terminals in contact with effector cells appeared late during the development, about the 25–30 cm stage. No adrenergic nerves were observed in the chamber angle. Corneal adrenergic nerves (also intraepithelial terminals) appeared much more frequently in embryos than in adults. No adrenergic neurons were observed in the retina. In the guinea-pig, the first adrenergic fibres were observed at about gestation day 35. The general principle of the development was very similar to that of the humans. At gestation day 45 to 50, the supply of adrenergic fibres was essentially that of the adult animal, except that the corneal adrenergic fibres were increasing until just before birth and that the adrenergic terminals of the chamber angle appeared shortly before term.
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