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  • 1
    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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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Hypothalamo-hindbrain pathway ; Rat ; Blood pressure ; Milk ejection
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary 1. In lactating rats and in rats deprived of water, the amount of neurosecretory material in the fibres of the neurosecretory hypothalamohindbrain pathway exceeds that in untreated control animals. Under these experimental conditions the pathway and its target regions can be well analysed by means of fluorescence and electron microscopic methods. 2. The axons belonging to the hypothalamo-hindbrain pathway originate from perikarya located in the caudal portion of the nucleus paraventricularis and also from a small group of perikarya in the caudo-lateral hypothalamus. On the way to the hindbrain the neurosecretory fibres join other fibre bundles of the mid- and hindbrain. 3. In the hindbrain most of the neurosecretory fibres terminate in the area of the nucleus tractus solitarii and in the area of the dorsal column nuclei. The axon terminals form synapses with other neurones. 4. Using cytochemical methods at the ultrastructural level (Naumann and Sterba, 1976), the authors were able to prove that the vesicles in the exohypothalamic fibres and in their synaptic terminals contain the same sort of material as the neurophysin vesicles in the posterior lobe of the hypophysis. 5. The most distinct increase in neurophysin was observed in lactating females which were separated from their sucklings after a normal lactation period of 15 days and killed four days thereafter, and in rats deprived of water for different time periods. 6. The relationship of the neurosecretory hypothalamo-hindbrain pathway to the nucleus tractus solitarii and to the dorsal column nuclei suggests that, functionally, there may be a correlation between the system of blood-pressure control and the milk ejection reflex.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurohemal organ ; Neurosecretion ; Moulting gland ; Ultrastructure ; Crustaceans
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Chez Sphaeroma serratum, la mue de puberté est suivie d'une dégénérescence de l'organe Y (glands de mue). Le plexus nerveux céphalique latéral, organe neurohémal accolé à cette glande a été l'objet de la présente étude ultrastructurale. Cet organe représente un centre de stockage de neurosécrétions qui proviennent d'une part, de deux cellules autochtones (cellules plexales) situées au sein même de ce plexus, d'autre part, de cellules neurosécrétrices situées dans le “ganglion mandibulaire” (cellules de type A). Chez les individus pubères, les cellules plexales et les cellules A du ganglion sous-oesophagien synthétisent des granules de neurosécrétion dont la taille est respectivement 1550±50Å et 1570±40Å. Il a été reconnu au sein du plexus 5 catégories de terminaisons dont les granules proviendraient pour deux d'entre elles des cellules plexales et des cellules A du “ganglion mandibulaire”. Chez les animaux pubères on observe un arrêt de la synthèse des granules de neurosécrétion au sein des cellules plexales et des cellules A du “ganglion mandibulaire”. Simultanément on enregistre dans le plexus la raréfaction puis la disparition des divers types de granules. Ce processus atteint en premier les terminaisons correspondant aux cellules plexales et aux cellules A du “ganglion mandibulaire”. La dégénérescence de la glande de mue chez les mâles pourrait être en relation avec l'arrêt de synthèse de ces cellules.
    Notes: Summary The present ultrastructural study deals with the lateral cephalic nerve plexus of Sphaeroma serratum, a neurohemal organ joined to the Y organ (ecdysial gland). This plexus acts as a storage centre for neurosecretory products from two sources: the two autochtonous cells (plexus cells) within the plexus itself, and the neurosecretory cells in various parts of the central nervous system, particulary the “mandibular ganglion” (A-cells). In prepuberal animals, plexus cells and subesophageal A-cells produce neurosecretory granules of two types measuring 1550±50Å and 1570±40Å respectively. Five categories of axon terminals were distinguished in the plexus. The granules found in two of these terminal types are believed to come from the plexus cells and from the “mandibular ganglion” A-cells. Cessation of production of neurosecretory granules in these A cells and plexus cells was observed in puberal animals, in the plexus with concomitant depletion and disappearance of different granule categories. The first axon terminals affected by this process are the two categories containing granules originating in the plexus and “mandibular ganglion” A-cells. Degeneration of the ecdysial gland in male Sphaeroma serratum might be connected with the cessation of granule formation in these two types of cell.
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    Cell & tissue research 204 (1979), S. 379-385 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Immunofluorescence ; Crustacea ; X-organ ; Hyperglycemic Hormone
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Antiserum raised in rabbits against extracts of sinus glands from Carcinus and shown by several criteria to contain antibodies directed against the neurosecretory hyperglycemic hormone was used to locate the hormone-producing perikarya in the optic ganglia. By means of the double antibody fluorescence technique, selective staining of the large neurosecretory perikarya of the medulla terminalis ganglionic X-organ (MTGXO) and their axons is obtained. The axon endings of the sinus gland are also stained. None of the other groups of neurosecretory cells in the eyestalk shows fluorescence. Preabsorption of the antiserum with pure hyperglycemic hormone abolishes the fluorescence.
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    Cell & tissue research 198 (1979), S. 201-208 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Corpus cardiacum ; Corpus allatum ; Acheta domesticus
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of the corpus cardiacum (CC) and corpus allatum (CA) of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, is described. Axon profiles within the CC contain neurosecretory granules 160–350 nm in diameter which are indistinguishable from those found in type I neurosecretory cells of the pars intercerebralis and in the nervus corporis cardiaci I. The CC itself contains two cell types: intrinsic neurosecretory cells and glial cells. Intrinsic NSC cytoplasm contains Golgi bodies and electron dense neurosecretory granules 160–350 nm in diameter. Synaptoid configurations with 20–50 nm diameter electron lucent vesicles were observed within axon profiles of the CC. The structure of the CA is relatively uniform with one cell type predominating. Typical CA cells possess large nucleoli, active Golgi complexes, numerous mitochondria, and occassional microtubules. Groups of dark staining cells scattered throughout the CA of some animals were interpreted as evidence of cellular death.
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    Cell & tissue research 198 (1979), S. 539-556 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Ground squirrel (Citellus erythrogenys Brandt) ; Seasonal changes ; Hibernation ; Quantitative analysis
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Monthly observations of the “Gomori-positive” hypothalamo-hypophysial neurosecretory system (HHNS) of the ground squirrel, Citellus erythrogenys Brandt, were carried out light microscopically using several quantitative methods. From the beginning of hibernation, formation of neurosecretory material (NSM) in the neurosecretory cells (NSC) progressively decreases and release of neurohormones from the HHNS is almost fully inhibited. A maximal accumulation of NSM in the perikarya of the NSC and in the posterior pituitary (PP) is found in December. By this time the volume of the cell nuclei and nucleoli is at a minimum. Signs of activation of the HHNS appear and become more conspicuous as the time of arousal from torpor approaches. The amount of NSM in the NSC and the PP decreases simultaneously with the increase in volume of the NSC. Hyperemia and activation of glial elements is visible throughout the HHNS. The morphological signs of activation reach their peak in March. After reproduction is completed (April to beginning of May), the NSC and the PP are almost devoid of NSM. Beginning with June and during the summer and autumn months a progressive accumulation of NSM in the NSC and the PP parallels gradual diminution in the volume of the NSC structures and the glial cells. Mechanisms and effector pathways by which the HHNS influences seasonal adaptation of the organism and reproduction are discussed.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Synaptic contacts ; Neurosecretion ; Lymnaea stagnalis ; Tilting stage electron microscopy ; Serial section reconstruction
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary In the central nervous system (CNS) of the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis 3 types of interneuronal contacts can be distinguished electron-microscopically, viz. true synapses, “synapse-like structures” (SLS), and “spinules”. Use of the electron microscope specimen tilting stage reveals numerous true synapses. Both “terminal” and “en passant” contacts occur on neurones and on glial cells. Furthermore “bigeminal” synapses are present. Complex (combined) convergent and divergent synaptic arrangements are found. On the basis of the morphology of presynaptic vesicles 7 types of true synapses can be discerned. Histochemical data on the contents of the vesicles are lacking. However, vesicle morphology suggests that type IV is aminergic and type VII cholinergic. Terminal and en passant SLS may penetrate deeply into neuronal somata and large axons, and into glial cells. A cluster of synaptic vesicles is present in the presynapse-like element. Spinules (spine-coated “evagination-invagination” specializations of the plasma membranes of 2 adjacent neuronal elements) are observed between somata, between axons, and between soma and axon. The neurosecretory Light Green Cells (LGC) and Caudo-Dorsal Cells (CDC) receive complex synaptic input. Type V true synapses, 2 types of SLS, and spinules contact the LGC. The complex morphology of the relationship between type A SLS and LGC, studied in serial sections, reveals that adjacent glial cells are also contacted by type A SLS. Type II true synapses, 3 types of SLS, and spinules are identified on the CDC. The validity of the methods of identification and classification of interneuronal contacts in the CNS of L. stagnalis, as well as the role of these contacts in the regulation of the activity of “ordinary” neurones, neurosecretory cells, and glial cells is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 199 (1979), S. 509-517 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Olfactory bulb ; Giant cells ; Neurosecretion ; Electron microscopy ; Labyrinth fish
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The giant cells in the olfactory bulb of labyrinth fish, most likely belonging to the nervus terminalis, show ultrastructural features of active synthesis of secretory material. Dense core vesicles (70–100 nm in diameter), found in the perikaryon as well as in the axon, are the possible storage sites of the secretory substance. Its chemical nature is unknown. In some of these vesicles acid phosphatase is demonstrable. Large membrane-bound bodies (up to 2000 nm in diameter), either containing an electron dense matrix or debris of cytoplasmic organelles, are also acid phosphatase-positive, suggesting their lysosomal nature. Some other ultrastructural characteristics of these cells are also described.
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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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    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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  • 11
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Lung ; Bufo marinus ; Innervation ; Adrenergic nerves ; Neurosecretion
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The innervation of the toad (Bufo marinus) lung was studied with transmission electron microscopy and fluorescence techniques, both before and after 12 or 20 days close vagosympathetic denervation. Four cytologically distinct types of neuronal processes were recognised, in relation to the visceral muscles of the lung. These were described as cholinergic, adrenergic, nonadrenergic/non-cholinergic (NANC) and sensory on the basis of the characteristics of their vesicular content and cytochemical reactions. An apparent efferent innervation of visceral smooth muscle was achieved by NANC (50%), cholinergic (25%) and adrenergic (25%) fibres. A few sensory fibres were also present. After denervation only NANC fibres persisted, showing that the cell bodies of these fibres were intrapulmonary. The vascular smooth muscle was supplied by cholinergic, adrenergic and sensory fibres. In the walls of the proximal branches of the pulmonary artery were fibres containing large dense-cored vesicles. These profiles, which were associated with the vasa vasorum, were similar to neurosecretory fibres. After denervation all neural profiles associated with the vasculature had degenerated. The observations suggest that vagal vasodepressor effects in the toad lung are mediated indirectly through relaxation of visceral muscle strands which in their contracted state compress vascular channels.
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    Cell & tissue research 189 (1978), S. 435-440 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Sinus gland ; Synapses ; Palaemon ; Ultrastructure
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Two types of neurosecretory fibers, designated as Type 5 and Type 6 axons, in the sinus gland of the freshwater prawn, Palaemon, establish contact with other neurosecretory axons by means of synaptic junctions. This finding strongly supports the view that release of some neurohormones from the eyestalk may be regulated by neurosecretory neurons through synaptic transmission.
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    Cell & tissue research 187 (1978), S. 315-321 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Hypothalamus ; Tadpole, Alytes obstetricans ; Neurosecretion ; Somatostatin ; Immunofluorescence
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Three sites of somatostatin-synthesizing perikarya, or a related antigen, were determined by immunofluorescence in the hypothalamus of the tadpole, Alytes obstetricans (Amphibia, Anura). Two sites of neurosecretory perikarya were localized in the preoptic nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus; the axons extended either to the anterior diencephalon or to the median eminence and the pituitary. The third site was found in the posterior hypothalamus. These neurosecretory cells showed a strong immunofluorescent reaction; their axons all terminated at the level of the median eminence. Somatostatin cells were only found in intact or hypophysectomized tadpoles given somatotropin (STH). The strong reaction observed in hypophysectomized tadpoles was possibly due to the loss of the terminal portion of the neurosecretory pathway (median eminence and pituitary) by which the agent is transported to the site of discharge.
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  • 14
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    Keywords: α-Endorphin ; Neurosecretion ; Fish pituitary ; Hypothalamohypophyseal relationships ; Immunocytology
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    Notes: Summary A strong positive immunoreaction with an α-endorphin antiserum occurs in two distinct sites of the goldfish and carp neurohypophysis. Fluorescent nerve terminals are found in the laminar nerve processes located in the rostral pars distalis, but the immunocytological reaction is mainly localised on the nerve processes of the posterior neurohypophysis lying between the intermediate lobe cells. Almost all the digitations of the neurohypophysis are strongly fluorescent. The immunoreactive fibres probably originate from the hypothalamus, where perikarya displaying the same immunoreaction have been found in the pars lateralis of the nucleus lateralis tuberis and in some minor centres. The possibility that the immunoreactive substances revealed on the neurohypophyseal processes may originate in the intermediate lobe cells is also discussed. It has now to be established if this hypothalamo-hypophyseal system contains a substance with endorphic properties or only some immunologically related substance devoid of the corresponding physiological activities.
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    Cell & tissue research 186 (1978), S. 361-374 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Subfornical organ ; Circumventricular organs ; CSF-contacting neurons ; Encephalo-chromaffin cells ; Neurosecretion ; Rana pipiens
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The ventricular surface of the subfornical organ of the frog is made up of ependymal cells with numerous apical microvilli, occasional cytoplasmic protrusions and many vacuoles projecting into the lumen of the third ventricle. Between these cells dendrites of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons reach the ventricle to terminate in bulbous enlargements. In addition, flask-shaped encephalo-chromaffin cells, containing granulated vesicles and aggregates of filaments in their cytoplasm, project into the cerebrospinal fluid. Surrounding the centrally located capillaries are enlarged dendrites and axons of heterogeneous morphology, some of which appear to originate within the subfornical organ, intermingled with dendrites and axons of normal structure. The glial cells in this region, especially the microglial cells, often contain large lipofuscin inclusions, suggestive of degeneration and subsequent phagocytosis of some of the enlarged dendrites and axons. The normally scarce neurosecretory peptidergic axons become more evident and form typical Herring bodies in stalk-transected animals. Neuronal perikarya of varying morphology are predominantly located peripheral to the region of enlarged dendrites and axons. Supraependymal macrophages are particularly numerous on the subfornical organ.
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    Cell & tissue research 186 (1978), S. 559-570 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Nucleus praeopticus ; Neurosecretion ; Acipenseridae ; Quantitative study
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The peptidergic neurosecretory cells (NSC) of the nucleus praeopticus (NP) of male and female sturgeons, A. güldenstädti Brandt, were studied light microscopically at different stages of their life cycle and under experimental conditions. Four main NSC types reflecting different phases of secretory cycle and life course of the cell have been tentatively distinguished. The maximum percentage of the high and moderate active NSC are found in juvenile animals in the sea (stages I and I–II of gonadal maturity, sgm), in upstream migrating fish in spring before spawning, in down-stream migrating fish 1–1.5 months after spawning, and in experimental fish kept for 8.5 hours in a 32‰ sodium chloride solution. The least active NSC accumulating neurosecretory material (NSM) are characteristic of juvenile fish (sgm II) in the sea, sturgeons maintained in a sodium chloride solution for 3.5 or 6 hours and fish which remained in a net, thrown to the sea, for some hours before fixation. The lowest percentage of these cells is observed in autumn migrants, in females soon after spawning (sgm VI) and in fish kept for 8.5 hours in a sodium chloride solution. Cells rich in basophilic substance and poor in NSM occur in juvenile and in down-stream migrating fish. Cells reflecting the state of exhaustion after hyperactivity and “ageing” cells are seen in adults, especially in sgm VI fish, and in autumn migrants. Pyknomorphous NSC are constantly present in all fish; they are most numerous in sturgeons found in a net. A diagram demonstrating the life course and the secretory cycle of the NSC is presented and the role of the hypothalamo-hypophysial neurosecretory system (HHNS) under stress conditions is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 190 (1978), S. 235-246 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Cobalt backfilling ; Crustacea ; Sinus gland ; X organ
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The topography of the neurosecretory system in the decapod eyestalk has not been precisely delineated with light microscopy. Cobalt iontophoresis and electron microscopy have proved useful in clarifying the microstructure of this system. The sinus gland (sg) of the crayfish eyestalk consists of aggregated axon terminals which end at or near the blood space, lontophoresing cobalt back through the cut base of the sinus glands reveals proximal cell bodies in the eyestalk only in the X organ (Xo) region. Electron microscopy demonstrates that axons from about 115 neurosecretory cell bodies in the Xo form the Xo-sg tract. Intermingled with these Xo somata are smaller non-neurosecretory cell bodies which do not send axons into the sinus gland. One of these exhibits catecholamine fluorescence. Backfilling also reveals a second group of fibres which run from the brain along the optic tract and into the sinus gland. These brain-sg fibres are smaller in diameter than Xo-sg axons and lack neurosecretory vesicles. From these fibres collaterals extend into the eyestalk neuropil, especially in the proximity of the visual elements. The possible function of these non-neurosecretory processes within the sinus gland is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 189 (1978), S. 41-51 
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    Keywords: Herring bodies (rat) ; Colchicine ; Cold ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary A study of the morphology of Herring bodies of the posterior pituitary lobe of rats treated with colchicine and/or exposed to low temperatures has been performed. After treatment with colchicine (20 μg in distilled water injected intracisternally) a predominance of Herring bodies with a large number of small “synaptic-like” vesicles surrounded by neurosecretory granules is found. Exposures to low temperature (4–6° C) result in an increase in the neurosecretory material and the Herring bodies show many neurosecretory granules of different densities. After treatment with colchicine and subsequent exposure to low temperatures, the Herring bodies are characterized by having a great number of autophagic bodies which become more numerous as the length of the exposure is increased; later autophagic vacuoles and lamellar bodies become evident.
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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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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Alcian blue ; Alcian yellow staining ; Ultrastructure ; Bulinus truncatus
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    Notes: Summary The neurosecretory system of the freshwater snail Bulinus truncatus was investigated. With the Alcian blue-Alcian yellow (AB/AY) staining method at least 10 different types of neurosecretory cells (NSC) were distinguished in the ganglia of the central nervous system. The differences in staining properties of the NSC — with AB/AY the cells take on different shades of green and yellow — are borne out at the ultrastructural level: the NSC types contain different types of neurosecretory elementary granules. The neurosecretory system of B. truncatus is compared to that of Lymnaea stagnalis, the species which has received the most attention among the pulmonates. It appears from the comparison that the systems of both species show many similarities, although some differences are also apparent.
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    Cell & tissue research 180 (1977), S. 253-261 
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    Keywords: Microtubules ; Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Axoplasmic transport
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    Notes: Summary The microtubules in the neurosecretory neurones of the posterior pituitary were studied using different electron microscopical techniques. Tannic acid staining indicated that the microtubules had a 13 protofilament substructure similar to that described for microtubules from other tissues and organisms; the dimensions of the microtubules were also similar to that previously reported. Albumen pretreatment clearly showed the microtubules running across axonal swellings, but not continuing across the nerve endings. The only organelles showing possible association with the microtubules were small vesicles and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, no association between hormone granules and microtubules could be seen.
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    Cell & tissue research 182 (1977), S. 557-564 
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    Keywords: Sinus gland ; Gammarus ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The sinus gland of Gammarus oceanicus, like that of other crustaceans, is composed of three elements: neurosecretory axons, glial cells and stromal sheath. Five neurosecretory axon types are identified on the basis of granule diameter, shape, and electron density, and axon matrix density. Exocytosis appears to be the major release mechanism of neurosecretory material. The preterminal regions of neurosecretory axons contain axoplasmic reticulum and neurotubules. Their arrangement in the axon and relationship with one another suggest a transport function. Multilamellar bodies are found in the terminal regions of neurosecretory axons. They arise from mitochondria and may be involved in granulolysis.
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    Cell & tissue research 176 (1977), S. 109-120 
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    Keywords: Achatina fulica ; Aplysia californica ; Neurosecretion ; Homology
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    Notes: Summary The right parietal ganglion of the African snail Achatina fulica contains an identifiable cluster of 20–40 white cells with somatic diameters of 80–110 μ. Cobalt chloride injection into these cells revealed an axon projection in the right parietal nerve as well as apparent terminations in the capsule. The cells contain an abundance of electron dense granules 1000–2000 Å in diameter which are formed in the Golgi apparatus. The granules stain with Gomori's chrome hematoxylin and paraldehyde fuchsin methods. While most cluster cells showed no “spontaneous” electrical activity, there was a correlation for the active cells between rate of activity and intensity of cell whiteness. These and other data suggest that the cluster cells are neurosecretory. A claim of homology with the “rostral white cells”, R3–R13, in the parieto-visceral ganglion of Aplysia is based on a similarity of morphological and electrophysiological features, together with analogous locations in the respective ganglia. It is concluded that the right parietal ganglion of Achatina is homologous with the right half of the parieto-visceral ganglion of Aplysia.
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    Cell & tissue research 178 (1977), S. 129-141 
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    Keywords: Choroid plexus ; Vasopressin ; Neurosecretion ; Rat ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Light and electron microscopic examination of choroid plexuses from lateral ventricles of water-deprived and subcutaneously or intravenously vasopressin administered rats reveal morphologic changes typical for vasopressin responsive fluid transporting epithelia during hormonal stimulation. Ultrastructural changes noted in both dehydrated and vasopressin treated animals included: the frequent occurrence of choroidal “dark” cells, dilatation of the lateral and basal intercellular spaces, increased vacuolization of the apical cytoplasm, and a change in microvillar conformation from the normal clavate type to those with a filiform shape. On the basis of the ultrastructural changes observed it is proposed that the choroid plexus be regarded as a target tissue for vasopressin. These findings indicated that a vasopressinmediated transchoroidal cerebrospinal fluid absorption capability exists.
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    In:  New York, 571 pp., Wiley, vol. 5, no. XVI:, pp. 1-14, (ISBN 0-89871-521-0)
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    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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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Lymnaea stagnalis ; Osmoregulation ; In vitro ; Quantitative electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The neurosecretory Dark Green Cells (DGC) in the pleural and parietal ganglia of the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis seem to be involved in osmoregulation. Previous experiments have indicated that changes of the osmolality of the environment induce activity changes of the DGC. Furthermore, it was shown that information on environmental osmolality reaches the DGC via the blood. In the present study right pleural and parietal ganglion complexes were cultured for 3 days in vitro under different osmotic conditions. Quantitative electron microscopy revealed that, compared with the control osmolality (130 mOsm/kg H2O), osmolalities of 160 and 190 mOsm/kg H2O caused a reduced synthesis and an increased storage of neurohormone in the DGC. Apparently, the activity of the DGC depended on the osmotic pressure of the medium. It is proposed that in vivo the osmotic pressure of the blood (which is related to the osmolality of the environment) regulates DGC activity.
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    Cell & tissue research 175 (1976), S. 265-277 
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    Keywords: Median eminence ; Macaca mulatto ; High-voltage electron microscopy ; Neurosecretion ; Ependymal cells
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of the normal median eminence of the male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) is described using high-voltage electron microscopy. Surface specializations of ependymal cells lining the infundibular recess included cilia, apical extrusions, and microvilli. Supraependymal cells were predominantly macrophage-like, but examples of lymphocytic types were also seen. Tanycytes had long, branching, basal processes filled with numerous microtubules, some lipid droplets, and granules. The zona interna was composed of large unmyelinated neurosecretory fibers. A few myelinated fibers were also seen, but their character as neurosecretory fibers could not be established. The zona externa was composed of densely-packed profiles of neurosecretory fibers of small diameter, was well-vascularized and contained the terminations of tanycytes. Perivascular glial cells, vesiculated elements, pituicytes, and cellular elements common to connective tissue were observed. The intricate relationships between both the cellular and fibrous elements of the median eminence can be appreciated with the capability of high-voltage electron microscopy to discern ultrastructure in sections 10 times thicker than those used for low-voltage electron microscopy. The median eminence of this primate species has an ultrastructural organization similar to that described for most other species.
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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 171 (1976), S. 397-401 
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    Keywords: Mantle edge ; Neurosecretion ; Gastropoda ; Innervation
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    Notes: Summary The mantle edge gland of Helisoma duryi is innervated by neurosecretory axons from the pallial nerves. Synaptoid contacts occur between axons and gland cells, and there is ultrastructural evidence for the release of neurosecretory material. The mantle edge gland contributes to the deposition of periostracum during shell formation, and direct neurosecretory innervation may control shell growth and regeneration.
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    Cell & tissue research 172 (1976), S. 39-58 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Posterior lobe of hypophysis ; Supraoptic nucleus ; Granulolysis ; Lysosomes ; Acid phosphatase
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les images ultrastructurales et cytochimiques de l'activité sécrétrice et lysosomiale des neurones neurosécréteurs supraoptico-posthypophysaires du rat ont été observées dans des circonstances où le nombre des grains de neurosécrétat et des lysosomes varient fortement. Au début de la réhydratation, après privation d'eau de 4 J, se développe dans les axones du lobe postérieur de l'hypophyse, plus ou moins vides de leurs grains, une autophagie intense. Elle intéresse surtout le réticulum lisse, abondant à ce stade, des microvésicules et des grains, bien que ces derniers soient encore peu nombreux. Si, à la reprise de la boisson, le transport axonal est inhibé par la colchicine, les grains s'accumulent dans les périkaryons, et le lobe postérieur ne se recharge pas. Toutefois l'autophagie, toujours intense dans les axones, reste très faible dans les périkaryons où la crinophagie n'est pas évidente. L'hypophysectomie induit également une charge granulaire des périkaryons, sans granulolyse importante; la mise en évidence des phosphatases acides fournit quelques images de crinophagie possible. Ce mécanisme est localisé exclusivement dans les périkaryons et l'autophagie essentiellement dans les axones. L'autophagie paraît constituer le mode de granulolyse prédominant et doit être considérée ici comme un des aspects du turnover des constituants cellulaires, signifiant un arrêt brusque d'une hypertrophie par hyperfonctionnement, plutôt que comme la régulation spécifique d'un excès de sécrétion.
    Notes: Summary Ultrastructural and cytochemical observations on neurosecretory neurons of the rat supraoptico-posthypophyseal systems were made under experimental conditions which resulted in striking changes in the amount of neurosecretory granules and lysosomes. Attention was focused on granulolysis. At the onset of rehydration following a 4 days water deprivation, very active autophagy took place in neurosecretory axons of the neural lobe involving the marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, microvesicles and neurosecretory granules, although the latter were still very few due to previous depletion. When axonal transport was inhibited by colchicine at the onset of rehydration, granules accumulated in the perikarya while granule reloading of the neural lobe was delayed. However autophagy, although always active in axons, remained scarce in perikarya. Moreover, in the latter there was only slight evidence of crinophagy. Hypophysectomy also induced granule accumulation in the perikarya, although accompanied by little granulolysis. Images indicative of crinophagy as shown by acid phosphatase localization were few and exclusively restricted to perikarya, while autophagy occurred essentially in axons. Autophagy appeared to be the predominant process for granulolysis and might be considered here as an aspect of the general turnover of cell constituents, related to the sudden regression of hyperactivity-induced hyperthrophy, rather than as an expression of a specific regulation of an excess of secretory material.
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    Keywords: Gill bars ; Fine structure ; Neurociliary control ; Neurosecretion ; Cephalochordata
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    Notes: Summary Both primary and secondary (tongue) bars of the pharyngeal gill basket are covered by epithelial cells that are continuous with the cells that line the atrium. Anterior and posterior faces of the gill bars are covered with lateral ciliated cells, which possess a single cilium, ringed by microvilli, and an elaborate basal mitochondria-rootlet apparatus. Pharyngeal faces of the gill bars are covered with ciliated pharyngeal cells, atrial faces by mucus secreting atrial cells. The surface epithelium rests on a stromal septum, a flattened tube of basal lamina which dilates to form the visceral blood vessel (along the pharyngeal face) and skeletal blood vessel (along the atrial face). This basal lamina surrounds paired skeletal rods which run through the longitudinal axis of the gill bars near the atrial face. Between the skeletal rods and atrial cells of primary gill bars is a coelomic channel lined by epithelioid coelomic cells. Neuronal processes, some with neurosecretory granules, are located among the bases of the atrial cells. Some axons may contact lateral ciliated cells where the latter meet atrial cells, but synaptoid endings have not been found here or elsewhere in the gill bars. Nervous tissue has not been identified among lateral ciliated cells even though ciliary activity of these cells is supposedly regulated by atrial nervous tissue.
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    Cell & tissue research 168 (1976), S. 11-31 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Regulatory input ; Lymnaea stagnalis ; Synapse degeneration ; Quantitative electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The cerebral ganglia of the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis contain two clusters of neurosecretory Caudo-Dorsal Cells (CDC). These cells produce a neurohormone which stimulates ovulation. Ganglion transplantation and quantitative electron microscopy show that neuronal isolation of the cerebral ganglia complex (CCC) results in an activation of the CDC. It was, therefore, concluded that the CDC are controlled by an inhibitory neuronal input originating outside the cerebral ganglia. Ultrastructural studies on synaptic degeneration in the CCC suggest that this input reaches the CDC via a special type of synapse-like structure, the type C-SLS. Furthermore, transplantation of CCC into acceptor snails leads to a reduced release and an increased intracellular breakdown of neurohormone in the CDC of the nervous system of the acceptors. It is supposed that these phenomena are caused by the release of an (unknown) factor from the transplanted CCC. Special attention was given to the formation and degradation of a peculiar type of neurohormone granule, the large electron dense granule. The physiological significance of the neuronal and non-neuronal control mechanisms which regulate CDC activity is discussed.
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    Keywords: Diencephalon ; Gymnophiona ; Nucleus praeopticus ; Neurosecretion ; Acetylcholinesterase
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    Notes: Summary In the diencephalon of two species of Gymnophiona (Amphibia) two neurosecretory nuclei were examined with histological (Alcian Blue, Aldehyde Fuchsin, Brookes Trichrome stain) and enzyme histochemical techniques (acid phosphatase, α-naphthyl acetate esterase, acetylcholinesterase (AChE)). In the preoptic nucleus two categories of secretory neurons were distinguished: large and medium sized neurons. The perikarya of both cell types contain very little neurosecretory material. The Alcian Blue method stained the medium sized neurons faintly but selectively. The tractus praeopticohypophyseus is marked by the presence of Herring bodies, which, however, are relatively scarce. The neurohypophysis, in contrast, contains large amounts of neurosecretory material. Both cell types of the preoptic nucleus are characterized by their very strong AChE and α-naphthylacetate esterase activity. The AChE also marks the tractus praeoptico-hypophyseus. In the large neurons acid phosphatase is present around the nucleus; in the medium sized neurons this enzyme is concentrated close to the origin of the axon. In the dorso-caudal hypothalamus a small group of neurons is stained with Alcian-Blue. These neurons, which also contain AChE, are located immediately under the ependyma which seems to be specialized in this region.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Lymnaea stagnalis ; Neuron isolation ; Culture ; Quantitative electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The neurosecretory Caudo-Dorsal Cells (CDC) in the cerebral ganglia of the freshwater pulmonate snail Lymnaea stagnalis produce an ovulation stimulating hormone. Previously it has been shown that neuronal and non-neuronal inputs are involved in the regulation of their activity. The degree of autonomy of these cells has been investigated by studying with morphometric methods the ultrastructure of CDC maintained in vitro. CDC of isolated cerebral ganglia which were cultured for 7 days show a considerable rate of synthesis, transport and release of neurohormone. Apparently these processes can proceed in the absence of neuronal and hormonal inputs from outside the cerebral ganglia. Completely isolated CDC, however, do not show neurosecretory activity in vitro; active Golgi zones, indicating the formation of neurosecretory elementary granules, are absent from such cells. Isolation does not seem to affect general cell functions such as protein synthesis and respiration. It is suggested that a neuronal input, originating within the cerebral ganglia, is necessary for the stimulation of CDC neurosecretory activity. Techniques are described for the isolation and culture of neurosecretory cells of L. stagnalis.
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    Cell & tissue research 161 (1975), S. 477-484 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretory cells ; Oncopeltus fasciatus ; Neurosecretion ; Neurophysin ; Aldehyde fuchsin ; Alcian blue
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    Notes: Summary The dynamics of the “A” cells of the parsintercerebralis of Oncopeltus fasciatus over the first eight days of adult life was studied by microspectrophotometry of sections stained either with aldehyde fuchsin or alcian blue 8 GX. The data show that the two stains differ in their selectivity as they record different events in the history of the cells. A hypothesis is proposed that the aldehyde fuchsin is more sensitive to the presence of a “carrier” protein in the cell, whereas alcian blue 8 GX is more sensitive to the presence of the “active principle” in the cell.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Osmotic stress ; Serum corticoid levels ; Catecholamine depletion ; Anas platyrhynchos (Aves)
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    Notes: Summary The effects of depleting brain catecholamines with a combined treatment of reserpine and α-methyl-p-tyrosine on serum corticosterone levels and release of immunoreactive neurophysin from the median eminence, in osmotically stressed and unstressed mallard ducks, were studied. Corticoid levels in salt loaded birds were more than three times that of unstressed birds. The combined treatment of reserpine and α-methyl-p-tyrosine significantly decreased the concentration of brain monoamines in all experimental groups and raised serum corticoid levels in non-stressed birds to the same level found in the osmotically stressed animals. Immunoreactive neurophysin in the zona externa of the median eminence was depleted in all birds subjected to either osmotic stress and/or reserpine treatment but not in unstressed control birds. These preliminary data indicate that catecholamines may exert an inhibitory influence on both ACTH release from the anterior pituitary and neurophysin from the median eminence and that these two events may in some way be interrelated in the duck.
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    Cell & tissue research 165 (1975), S. 129-133 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Sinus gland ; Eyestalk ; Ultrastructure ; Uca
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of the sinus gland of the fiddler crab, Uca pugnax, was investigated and found to be similar to that in other crustaceans. Five types of neurosecretory axon terminals were tentatively identified on the basis of the size, shape, and electron density of granules within the axons. Release of neuro-secretory material appears to be by exocytosis.
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    Keywords: Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Neurophysin ; Neurohypophysia hormones ; Electron microscopy ; Autoradiography
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    Notes: Summary Electron-microscope autoradiographs have been prepared from the neural lobes of the pituitary glands of rats which had received intracisternal injections of [35S] cysteine at various times before gland removal. The rate of appearance and disappearance of autoradiographically demonstrable radioactivity in the neural lobe closely paralleled that previously determined, biochemically, for radioactive hormones and neurophysins. Radioactivity was appreciably associated with the undilated parts of neurosecretory axons only during the first few hours after injection of the label. The axonal dilations were subdivided into those in which small vesicles could be seen (“endings”) and those in which no small vesicles could be seen (“swellings”). Radioactivity appeared first in “endings” and then in progressively larger and larger profiles of “swellings”. It appeared that newly arrived granules were found close to the limiting membrane of the nerve swelling and that as time progressed they moved deeper and deeper into the swelling. On the basis of the results, suggestions were made for an anatomical explanation of the readily-releasable pool of hormone which has been demonstrated pharmacologically.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Harvestman ; Exocytosis ; Release ; Ultrastructure
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les plaques paraganglionnaires de l'Opilion Trogulus nepaeformis sont des organes neurohémaux constitués d'une lamelle neurale externe, épaisse, en contact avec un sinus sanguin, d'une couche basale de cellules gliales, et de 7 types de terminaisons axonales (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 and C) renfermant des granules élémentaires qui diffèrent par leur taille, leur densité aux électrons et l'aspect de leur contenu. Les granules de type A1 se déchargent par exocytose dans l'espace extra-axonal, sous la lamelle neurale; ceux de type C se fragmentent en microgranules à contenu dense qui s'accumulent avec des vésicules claires contre l'axolemme en des places suggérant des sites de libération dans l'hémolymphe.
    Notes: Summary The paraganglionic plates of the harvestman, Trogulus, are neurohemal organs composed of a thick neural lamella facing a blood sinus, basal glial cells, and seven distinct types of axon terminals (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 and C) identified on the basis of elementary granule size, electron density, and structure of contents. The release of A1 type granules occurs by exocytosis into the extraaxonal space below the acellular neural lamella. The release of the content of C granules occurs after fragmentation into small electron dense vesicles. Clusters of these vesicles intermixed with clear vesicles pressing against the axolemma beneath the neural lamella, apparantly correspond to the sites of release.
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    Cell & tissue research 153 (1974), S. 101-113 
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    Keywords: Hypothalamus ; Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Axoplasmic transport ; Microtubules
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    Notes: Summary The lower pituitary stalk has been studied in rats given hypertonic saline for four days and in rats with congenital diabetes insipidus (GDI), that is, in two groups of animals in which there is evidence of an increase in the transport of polypeptides down the axons of the tractus hypophyseus. A quantitative ultrastructural analysis of this tract, the first yet made, has demonstrated that in normal animals it is composed of unusually small axons, over half of which are less than 300 nm in diameter. In this tract there is a significant increase in axonal diameter and microtubular content in animals given hypertonic saline for four days. In adult rats with CDI, these changes are even more marked, a feature which is correlated with the fact that in these animals the transport of polypeptides has probably been abnormal since birth. An alteration in the microtubular content of neurons has not previously been observed either in physiologically stressed animals or in diseased animals; such alterations suggest the participation of microtubules in polypeptide transport. The narrow diameter of axons in the tractus hypophyseus of the normal animal raises the possibility of the extravesicular transport of such polypeptides.
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    Cell & tissue research 155 (1974), S. 117-125 
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    Keywords: Sinus gland ; Carcinus maenas (Crustacea, Decapoda) ; Nerve fibre cell types ; Neurosecretion ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The sinus gland of Carcinus maenas consists of the swollen axonal endings of the neurosecretory cells of the major ganglia and acts as a storage release centre for the membrane bound neurosecretory material. These neurosecretory granules fall into five different types based on size and electron density. Their contents are released by exocytosis of the primary granules or smaller units budded from the primary granules.
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    Cell & tissue research 148 (1974), S. 259-275 
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    Keywords: Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Acipenseridae ; NaCl load
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    Notes: Summary Neurohypophyses of sexually mature Acipenser güldenstädti Brandt and Acipenser stellatus Pallas maintained in hypertonic solutions were studied by means of light and electron microscopy. The fish were caught in the Ural and transferred into basins containing either freshwater (controls) or 32‰, 22‰ and 17‰ NaCl solutions respectively. The neurohypophyses of control animals kept in freshwater for two days contained a large amount of “Gomori-positive” neurosecretory material (4 arbitrary units). An abundance of neurosecretory granules of different kinds, predominantly elementary ones, was observed electron microscopically in neurosecretory fibres and terminals of these fish. A decrease in the amount of neurosecretory material was found in all experimental animals: up to 1–2 units in A. güldenstädti after 3.5–10 h in 32‰ NaCl, and up to 3.5 units in A. stellatus after 4.5–48 h in 22‰ or 17‰ NaCl. The number of neurosecretory granules decreased considerably in the fibres and terminals in all experimental series, but that of granulated, disintegrating granules and “granule-shadows” increased markedly, especially in preterminal parts of axons. An increased number of hypertrophied mitochondria, lamellar bodies, residual granules and especially “synaptic” vesicles was seen. These changes speak for an active discharge of neurohormones into the general circulation, a phenomenon well known to be characteristic of stress responses. Pathological ultrastructural changes (breakdown of terminals, extracellular wide cisternae) were visible in A. güldenstädti neurohypophyses at the end of the experiments. Also tanycytes — “narrow” ependymal cells — and pituicytes underwent noticeable changes.
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    Cell & tissue research 150 (1974), S. 231-247 
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    Keywords: Regeneration ; Nerve cells ; Neurosecretion ; Hydra ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Major ultrastructural changes in neurons were studied during sequential periods of hypostomal regeneration in Hydra. Some neurons remain unaffected except that at certain periods following amputation, they become more active in neurosecretory production. Other neurons in various stages of differentiation were also observed. Most emphasis was placed on degenerating neurons showing a loss of organelles and destruction of the perikarya. Certain large, membrane-bounded structures (up to 1.7 μ in diameter) suggested tentatively to be of a lysosomal-like nature, may be partly responsible for the degenerative process. The neurites of these cells first assume a beaded appearance and/or contain bulbous endings. The eventual isolated fragments of neurites contain typical membrane-bounded neurosecretory droplets (850/1700 Å in diameter) which disintegrate forming particulate materials (350 Å in diameter). Following complete disruption of the neurites, some of the granules accumulate in the extracellular spaces before they are disintegrated. From the data presented in this and the preceding paper, it is suggested that these particles, derived from neurosecretory droplets, may be responsible for the stimulation of: 1) interstitial cell differentiation into neurons, 2) the increased activity in neurosecretory production in normal cells, 3) the conspicuous increase in neurite length and consequently the exaggerated degree of anastomosis, and 4) the possible capacity of neurons to regenerate neurites.
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    Cell & tissue research 154 (1974), S. 275-288 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Insect ; Leptinotarsa decemlineata ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructure of seven types of neurosecretory cells (NSC) in the medial and lateral groups of the protocerebrum is described. The differences among cell types established earlier by light microscopy parallel differences in size and appearance of the neurosecretory particles observed in electron micrographs. No relationship was found between the affinity for Gomori's paraldehyde fuchsin stain and the nature of the particles. The secretions of the A-, A1-, and C-types of NSC of the medial group are characterized by electron-dense neurosecretory granules of 1250 Å dia., medium-dense granules of 2100 Å, and electron-lucent vesicles of 1700 Å, respectively. The L-type NSCof the lateral group contain smaller (1300 Å) or larger (1700 Å) neurosecretory granules. The medial B- and E-types of NSC and the lateral LB-type contain granulated vesicles (1200 Å) of the same appearance. These cell types differ in other respects and most likely have separate functions.
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    Cell & tissue research 147 (1974), S. 199-207 
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    Keywords: Nucleus praeopticus ; Xenopus, tadpole ; Neurosecretion ; Osmoregulation ; Enzyme cytochemistry
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    Notes: Summary The activity of four enzymes was studied in the neurosecretory cells of the preoptic nucleus ofXenopus laevis (tadpoles and adults) in control and osmotically stimulated animals. Any activity of lactate dehydrogenase could not be demonstrated, whereas activity of thiamine pyrophosphatase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and succinate dehydrogenase was demonstrated only in the cells of the caudo-dorsal region of the preoptic nucleus in experimental animals. It is concluded that the cells of this region may be involved in osmoregulatory processes.
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    Cell & tissue research 150 (1974), S. 213-229 
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    Keywords: Nerve cells ; Regeneration ; Neurosecretion ; Hydra viridis, littoralis ; Light microscopy
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    Notes: Summary Using whole mount preparations, nerve cells at the cut surface (head region) and also the peduncular-basal disk region were studied during various stages of regeneration (zero hour — 96 h) in Hydra. Leucomethylene blue staining technique allows excellent stainability of nerve cells and thus a statistical count of them at the specified stages of regeneration was obtained. Within 1 h after transection a significant increase (P 〈 0.001) in release of neurosecretory droplets occurs. Between 4 and 15 h of regeneration the number of perikarya remains relatively constant, but the number of processes increases by 200%. This indicates that neurons in Hydra have the capacity to regenerate their processes. Their growth in length is dramatically illustrated at 18 hrs. of regeneration. This degree of anastomosing arrangement is not observed in any other stage of regeneration. After this time the majority of processes break down releasing the neurosecretory materials. A study of the number of perikarya, the number of neurites and the number of neurosecretory droplets in regenerating animals reveals a continuous increase in the number of nerve cells and neurosecretory droplets released for up to 24 h. With the accumulation of nerve cells at the cut surface (24 h of regeneration) there is a simultaneous appearance of tentacle outpushings. The tentacles increase in number and length during the subsequent periods of regeneration. As the regenerative process approaches completion (72–96 h) the number of neurosecretory droplets released decreases, approaching the pre-transection levels as seen in normal animals. It is suggested that the neurosecretory material may act as a “trophic” agent which stimulates differentiation of interstitial cells into nerve cells and thus influences the regenerative process.
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    Keywords: Infracerebral complex ; Polychaeta, Nereidae ; Neurosecretion ; Fine structure
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    Notes: Summary The infracerebral complex consists of: (a) two types of ependymoid infracerebral cells located on the ventral surface of the brain, adjacent to a coelomic sinus and blood vessels; (b) a noncellular stroma, the neural lamella, which separates the infracerebral cells from cerebral nervous tissue; (c) two types of cerebral neurosecretory endings (one with many mitochondria) which abut on the neural lamella opposite from the infracerebral cells. The infracerebral a cells become columnar and develop abundant apical caveolae and Golgi elements in older worms. The infracerebral b cells, filled with electron opaque granules, resemble neurosecretory cells; their axon-like processes contain microtubules and make synaptoid contacts with the neural lamella. Both cell types are present in young worms of about 10 segments but the b cells, relatively abundant in younger worms, are outnumbered by a cells in mature individuals. However, during reproductive development neither a nor b cells display any structural changes which would indicate that they represent glandular tissue. Basal processes originating both from a and b cells form entanglements which become progressively more intricate during maturation. Neurosecretory endings are present in 10-segment worms and become very numerous in mature worms but at no time do they penetrate the neural lamella and contact the infracerebral cells. It is unlikely that the infracerebral cells per se constitute a gland but they are strategically located to influence the release of hormones from neurosecretory endings.
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    Rock mechanics and rock engineering 5 (1973), S. 237-248 
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    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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    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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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Annelida ; Sexuality and Development ; Autoradiography
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Während der sexuellen Entwicklung vonPlatynereis dumerilii steigt die Zahl der Neurone, die Merkmale einer sekretorischen Aktivität aufweisen, parallel zum Wachstum und zur Reifung der Keimzelle an. Die cytologische Differenzierung eines Neurons zur neurosekretorischen Zelle ist mit einer Steigerung der Synthese Cystin-haltigen Materials gegenüber konventionellen Neuronen gekoppelt. Neurosekretorische Zellen treten erstmals in Erscheinung, kurz bevor die Oocyten in die zweite Oogeniephase eintreten, während der die Vitellogenese abläuft. Aufgetragen gegen den Oocytendurchmesser ergibt die Zahl der Neurone, die sekretorisch aktiv werden und3H-Cystin inkorporieren, eine ansteigende Kurve. Die Kurve biegt auf ein Plateau, wenn die Oocyten eine kritische Größe erreichen. Diese Größe markiert jenes Entwicklungsstadium, von dem ab eine Enthirnung eine normale Reifung nicht mehr verhindert. Die Zahl synthetisch tätiger Neurone steight erneut an, wenn die Oocyten die kortikale Struktur des reifen Eies entwickeln. Das Maximum wird kurz vor der Metamorphose erreicht. Während der epitoken Umwandlung sinkt die synthetische Aktivität rasch ab, um im schwärmbereiten Tier gänzlich zum Stillstand zu kommen. In Tieren, die nach der kritischen Phase zur caudalen Regeneration veranlaßt werden, fällt die Zahl markierter neurosekretorischer Zellen auf ein Niveau ab, das für junge, „vorkritische“ Individuen charakteristisch ist. Entsprechend wird in jungen, vorkritischen Tieren, die erst wenige endokrine Neurone besitzen, die Differenzierung weiterer neurosekretorischer Zellen durch eine Regeneration nicht stimuliert. Der zeitliche Verlauf der synthetischen Aktivität im Zuge der Entwicklung und die durch eine Regeneration erzwungenen Veränderungen sind somit reziprok zur Aktivität des Gehirns in Bezug auf die Ausschüttung des Juvenilhormons. Die Hypothese wird zur Diskussion gestellt, die sinkende Produktion des Juvenilhormons werde von der steigenden Produktion eines antagonistischen neuroendokrinen Prinzips begleitet oder verursacht.
    Notes: Summary During sexual development ofPlatynereis dumerilii, the number of neurones exhibiting secretory activity rises in parallel with the growth and maturation of the germ cells. The cytological differentiation of neuroglandular properties is accompanied with an increased uptake of tritiated cystine. The first neurones developing the characteristics of secretory cells and incorporating cystine appear just before the oocytes enter the second growth phase which corresponds with vitellogenesis. When plotted against the oocyte diameter the number of labelled neurosecretory cells yields an ascending line, which becomes a plateau once the oocytes approach a critical size. This critical size defines the developmental stage beyond which decerebration does not prevent normal maturation. The neuronal synthetic activity rises again when the oocytes differentiate the cortical structure of ripe eggs. The curve displays its maximum slope at the onset of metamorphosis. During the epitokous transformation the synthetic activity decreases rapidly and is almost totally depressed when swarming is imminent. In animals induced to regenerate their posterior segments after they have passed the critical stage, the number of labelled neurosecretory cells becomes reduced to the precritical level. According to this, regeneration in young precritical animals containing only few endocrine neurones does not stimulate the development of further secretory neurones. Thus, the time course during maturation and the changes caused by regeneration are reciprocal to the activity of the brain with respect to the release of juvenile hormone. The question is thus raised as to whether the declining titer of juvenile hormone may be accompanied or caused by an increased production of an antagonistic principle related to maturation.
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    Cell & tissue research 142 (1973), S. 443-464 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Posterior Pituitary gland ; Colchicine ; Axoplasmic flow ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The effect of colchicine on the release of neurosecretory material from the posterior pituitary gland was investigated in the rat in vivo and in vitro. Colchicine was administered subarachnoidally when neurophysin, radiolabelled by injection of (35S) cysteine into the supraoptic nucleus, had accumulated in the neural lobe. Dehydration for 3 days of non-colchicine-treated rats was followed by a 100% reduction of neurophysin-bound radioactivity. When colchicine was given prior to dehydration, the reduction of radioactive neurophysin was less marked. Colchicine treatment alone was likewise followed by a lowering of protein-bound radioactivity in the neural lobe, which may indicate that colchicine, in addition to blocking the rapid axonal transport of neurosecretory material, also impedes the slow transport. The release of radioactive neurophysin in response to depolarizing concentration of potassium in vitro was diminished in the presence of colchicine, the reduction being most pronounced after colchicine treatment in vivo. The biochemical data prove the view that colchicine inhibits the release of neurosecretory material from the neural lobe. The ultrastructural findings support the biochemical data. Thus, colchicine treatment alone or followed by dehydration induced a marked increase in the number of organelles, especially of mitochondria and dense bodies. There was a marked increase in the number of enlarged axons filled with dammed organelles in the infundibulum and neurohypophysis. There was an accumulation of dense core vesicles and microvesicles in the axonal terminals in the neurohypophysis after treatment with either colchicine or colchicine followed by dehydration, which indicates an impediment of the release process. Dehydration alone induced a depletion of the dense core vesicles in the terminals. Out from the combined biochemical and ultrastructural findings possible mechanisms for the action of colchicine are discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 143 (1973), S. 505-515 
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    Keywords: Endoplasmic reticulum ; Paracervical ganglion (Rat) ; Neurosecretion ; Electron microscopy ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary Two new types of structure of the cytoplasm of an autonomic neuron were described: (1) Inclusions of the rough ergastoplasmic reticulum, which were named “ergastosomes”, contain finely granular material with moderately electron opaque staining with both glutaraldehyde-OsO4 and KMnO4 fixations. A short comment was made on the nature of the contents of the ergastosomes. (2) Tubular formations of endoplasmic reticulum were found in the axons and/or dendrites of the paracervical ganglion.
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    Cell & tissue research 136 (1973), S. 461-477 
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    Keywords: Neurohypophysis ; Acipenseridae ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The neurohypophysis of sexually mature male and female Acipenser güldenstädti Brandt and Acipenser stellatus Pallas was studied light and electron microscopically. The recessus hypophysei lined with ependymal cells of two main types, “narrow” and “wide”, are in the center of the neurohypophysial “roots”. Processes from both cell types run radially to the basement membrane of the connective tissue layers abutting on the hypophysial intermediate lobe. Protrusions penetrating deep into the recessus hypophyseus are found in the apical parts of the “wide” cells. Pituicytes are rare in the neurohypophysis. The ultrastructure of both ependymal cell types and of the pituicytes is described. Nonmyelinated “Gomori-positive” (peptidergic) neurosecretory A1 and A2 type fibres and their terminals containing elementary neurosecretory granules (1400–1800 Å and 1000–1400 Å respectively) are the main structural elements of the neurohypophysis. Some “dark” and single myelinated neurosecretory fibres have been found. The adrenergic fibres (type B) were described earlier (Polenov et al., 1972a). The structural peculiarities of the neurohypophysis are discussed in functional and comparative-morphological terms.
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    Cell & tissue research 144 (1973), S. 153-166 
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    Keywords: Arthropods Limulus ; Eye ; Neurosecretion ; Neuroeffector junction ; Nerve degeneration
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    Notes: Summary In the protocerebrum of Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab, neurosecretory cells are grouped within the curvature of the central body, an association area for inputs from lateral, median, and ventral eyes. Scattered neurohemal terminals face circulatory sinusoids within the brain. Efferent fibers, originating from unspecified, presumably neurosecretory cells in the central nervous system, course through the optic nerves and terminate on pigment and receptor cells of the eyes. Their terminals have a synaptoid structure and their granules have the characteristic density and crystalline substructure of neurosecretory granules. Transection of the lateral optic nerve leads to degranulation and gradual disappearance of terminals and to accumulation of granules at the proximal ends of cut fibers. The Limulus ocular innervation presents a striking example of directed delivery of neurosecretion to pigmentary effector cells, whose adaption is usually controlled by circulating neurohormones.
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    Cell & tissue research 144 (1973), S. 309-324 
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    Keywords: Pericardial organ ; Anterior ramifications ; Neurosecretion ; Electron mikroscopy
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    Notes: Summary The pericardial organ-anterior ramifications complexes of Uca pugilator and Callinectus sapidus were studied by transmission electron microscopy. Five morphologically distinguishable groups of granules and two groups of vesicles were identified. These granules and vesicles are present in approximately the same proportions in the pericardial organs and anterior ramifications of both species. Two of the granule groups are never mixed in the same axon terminals and are believed to represent different hormone-protein complexes. The remaining granule and vesicle groups are believed to be products of neurosecretory hormone release. Evidence that at least some of these granules and vesicles arise from intraaxonal release of neurosecretory material is presented.
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    Keywords: Axonal transport ; Neurosecretion ; Posterior pituitary ; Anesthetics ; Chlorpromazine ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The effects of chlorpromazine (cpz) and tetracaine (tc) on the rapid axonal transport of neurosecretory material (NSM) in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system was investigated. Following subarachnoidal injection of these drugs, the incorporation of (35S) cysteine into proteins of the supraoptic nucleus was slightly depressed. The protein-bound radioactivity in the posterior pituitary was markedly lowered in experimental rats which indicates a partial blockage of the rapid axonal transport of NSM along the hypothalamoneurohypophysial tract. Both cpz and tc induced an increase in the number of mitochondria and profiles of granular endoplasmic reticulum. The axons in the infundibulum and neurohypophysis were enlarged by dammed organelles, indicating a blockage of axonal transport. There was an increased number of microvesicles, often arranged in a crystalloid pattern, in the terminals. The number and distribution of neurotubuli and neurofilaments were not changed. A possible stimulatory effect of cpz on the release of NSM from the neural lobe is assumed Possible mechanisms for the action of mitotic inhibitors, transquilizers and local anesthetics are discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 145 (1973), S. 1-22 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Cerebral neurohemal organ ; Vesicle ; Acheta domesticus ; Nervus corporis cardiaci I
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    Notes: Summary Six principal types of neurons are recognized in the median neurosecretory-cell group of the pars intercerebralis in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. Four of the six cell types are neurosecretory neurons. The majority of the 900 cells contain granules 1500–3000 Å in diameter and are designated as type I. These neurons, which are associated with the nervus corporis cardiaci I (NCCI), undergo asynchronous secretory cycles. Two cell types (II and IV), which contain 700–1600 Å granules, terminate in a neurohemal area on the ventral median surface of the brain, a site not previously recognized as neurohemal in insects. Neurosecretory axons that lie within and below the perineurial sheath in the cerebral neurohemal area contain typical synaptoid figures, but no evidence of exocytosis was found. A single pair of neurosecretory cells (type III) has been recognized only from light microscope sections. Two distinct types of vesicle-bearing axons occur in protocerebral neuropile. The majority contain electron-dense and dense-cored vesicles 600–1000 Å in diameter. Some axons contain granules of type I cells and may be collaterals or loops of NCCI axons.
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    Cell & tissue research 146 (1973), S. 367-374 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neuromuscular junction ; Synapse, Synaptoid ; Insect
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    Notes: Summary The axons which innervate the ventral abdominal intersegmental muscles ofRhodnius prolixus make typical synaptic contacts with the muscles but are also neurosecretory. The neuromuscular junctions are characterised by the close apposition of the plasma membrane of the axon and that of the muscle, and also by the presence of synaptic vesicles in the axons. Every axon innervating the muscle contains neurosecretory granules and synaptoid structures. The neurosecretory granules are concentrated in groups along the axons, and appear to be released by exocytosis both locally around the muscles and generally into the haemolymph. The synaptoid structures consist of groups of electron-lucent vesicles which are usually clustered against the axolemma at sites adjacent to the haemolymph.
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    Keywords: Neurophysin ; Neurosecretion ; Axonal transport ; Immunohistochemistry
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    Notes: Summary 1. An immunohistochemical study has been made of the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system of the dog, 20h after crushing the pituitary stalk. 2. By use of a cross-species-reactive neurophysin antiserum it was shown that neurophysin is a component of the axons which originate in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei and terminate around blood vessels in the posterior pituitary. 3. Neurophysin specific fluorescence accumulated in axons proximal to the constriction but was absent from the axons immediately distal to the site of injury. 4. In dogs left for six days it was shown by radioimmunoassay that the amount of neurophysin in the hypothalamus and stalk proximal to the constriction increased twofold while that remaining in the posterior pituitary and stalk distal to the constriction decreased five-fold over the same period. 5. The results are interpreted as evidence for a rapid axonal transport of neurophysin from its site of synthesis in the cell bodies of the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neurohypophysis ; Neurophysin ; Diabetes insipidus ; Vasopressin
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    Notes: Summary The subcellular distribution of radioactive neurophysin and the release of neurophysin from isolated neurosecretory granules (NSG) from the posterior pituitary gland were studied at various time intervals after injection of (35S) cysteine into the supraoptic nucleus under various functional conditions. In consistency with previous findings (Norström, 1972), increased amounts of radioactive neurophysin were recovered extra-granularly at longer time intervals after isotope injection. Increased quantities of “free” labelled neurophysin were found in lactating rats and homozygous diabetes insipidus (DI) rats 7 and 1 day after injection, respectively. Salt-loading for 4 days did not affect the subcellular distribution of radioactive neurophysin 1 day after injection of (35S) cysteine. 8.5 days after isotope injection acute haemorrhage was followed by augmented amounts of radioactive neurophysin among the soluble proteins, but at 1 day no difference was observed between bled animals and controls. The “spontaneous” release of neurophysin form NSG was higher in stimulated animals and increased with time after isotope injection in controls as well as in experimental animals. The absolute increase in release of neurophysin in response to ATP was higher in stimulated rats whereas NSG from DI rats did respond poorly to ATP.
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    Cell & tissue research 142 (1973), S. 329-345 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Midbrain ; Cyclostomata ; Lamprey, female ; Light- and electron microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Im Torus semicircularis des Mittelhirns der Neunaugen lassen sich sekretorische Neurone nachweisen. Das mesenzephale neurosekretorische Zentrum entwickelt sich erst nach der Metamorphose und ist nur bei den weiblichen Tieren ausgebildet. Das Neurosekret ist ein zystinreiches Protein und läßt sich im histologischen Schnittpräparat mit allen Methoden, die zum Nachweis peptiderger Neurosekretion im Hypothalamus verwendet werden, darstellen. Produktions- und Speicherorte des Neurosekrets sind erweiterte Zisternen des rauhen endoplasmatischen Retikulums. Es existieren keine speziellen Speicherorganellen in Form der bekannten runden, einheitlich elektronendichten Elementargranula oder in Form von dense-core Vesikeln. Speicherzisternen konnten auch in den Fortsätzen der neurosekretorischen Zellen nachgewiesen werden.
    Notes: Summary In the torus semicircularis of the midbrain of lampreys a neurosecretory area was found. The mesencephalic neurosecretory nucleus develops not earlier than after metamorphosis and is only present in females. The neurosecretory material could be determined as a cystine-rich protein demonstrable in slices, with all of the methods, that are employed for the demonstration of hypothalamic neurosecretion. The neurosecretion is produced and stored in dilatated cisterns of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. No specialized storing vesicles in the form of the well-known spherical, uniformly electron-dense elementary vesicles or dense-core vesicles are present. The storing cisterns could also be demonstrated in the processes of the neurosecretory cells.
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    Cell & tissue research 146 (1973), S. 1-14 
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    Keywords: Ventral cord ganglia ; Limulus polyphemus ; Cell types ; Neurosecretion ; Cytochemistry ; Light microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The ventral cord ganglia of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, contains six distinct cell types: three appear to be ordinary neurons and three exhibit the staining affinities of neurosecretory cells. The presumed neurosecretory cells have been termed neurosecretory cell I (NSC I), NSC II and NSC III. NSC I cells contain a colloid-like inclusion which may occur as a single small vacuole or occupy more than one-half of the cell volume. Colloid inclusions occur with greater frequency toward the periphery, although small cells of similar staining affinity occur in cords extending to the fibrous core. The histochemical tests suggest that the cytoplasm is positive for proteins, but contains no strong acidic groups which may have been derived from S-S or S-H groups. The presence of carbohydrate is also indicated. NSC II cells exhibit distinct secretory cycles. Early in the cycle the cytoplasm becomes phloxinophilic and progresses to a distinct fuchsinophilic stage. Small homogeneous irregular inclusions are found in the axon hillock during the latter stages of the cycle. Histochemical tests suggest the presence of a carbohydrate and strong acidic groups which may have been derived from S-S or S-H groups. There are small cells present which appear to be immature neurosecretory cells. NSC III cells are characterized by a perinuclear ring of cytoplasm which is stained by chrome alum hematoxylin but not by paraldehyde fuchsin. A secretory cycle may also be present in this cell type. The three cell types presumed to be ordinary neurons exhibit no particular staining affinity for the stains or tests used in this study.
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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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    Cell & tissue research 129 (1972), S. 92-113 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretory granule ; Rat ; Membranes
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    Notes: Summary Neurosecretory granules (NSG) of rat posterior pituitary glands were prepared by differential centrifugation techniques mainly according to the procedure as described by Barer, Heller and Lederis (1963). As revealed by electron microscopy, the recovery of neurophysin and the contents of enzymes, purified NSG were obtained in a pellet at 30 000 g/60 min (0.44 M sucrose). Eighteen h after injection of (35S) cysteine into the supraoptic nucleus 60% of the recovered radioactivity in the neural lobe was found in the NSG, whereas 20% was found in the final supernatant (100 000 g/120 min). Sixteen days after injection the NSG and the final supernatant fraction contained fairly equal amount of (35S) cysteine (approximately 40%). It is suggested that after a period of intragranular maturation neurophysin is extruded into an extragranular pool of neurosecretory material. With the use of conventional polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis it was shown that the predominating proportion of radioactivity in the NSG after a hypothalamic injection of (35S) cysteine was located within the neurophysin fraction A and in fraction B. Fraction B is suggested to be partly bound to the NSG membranes. When the NSG soluble and NSG insoluble proteins, obtained after lysis of NSG, were separated on polyacrylamide gels in the presence of sodium dodecylsulphate, the highly radioactive soluble protein was shown to consist of two components with average molecular weights of 12 300 and 14 600. Most of the proteins in the lysate were found in the NSG membranes, though less radioactive. A component with a mol.wt. of 37 000 was enriched in the membrane fraction. At longer times after isotope injection the high mol.wt. proteins, particularly those of the NSG membranes, contained increased amounts of radioactivity.
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    Cell & tissue research 132 (1972), S. 25-34 
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    Keywords: Neurohypophysis ; Rat ; Perivascular cells ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The purpose of this study is to investigate the ultrastructural features of perivascular cells as found in the neural lobe of the hypophysis. In particular, an inquiry was made into the nature of the relationship of such cells to neurosecretory fibers and endings. The latter, in fact, are often invaginated within the perivascular cells and enveloped by their processes; furthermore, they often reveal a certain number of empty granules as well as characteristics of degenerative nature. In the course of this study the localization of the perivascular cells has been investigated as well as that of their processes within the extensive interlobular network typical of the hypophysial neural lobe of rodents. Based on the data gathered, the hypothesis is put forward that the perivascular cells play an important role in the turnover of neurosecretory endings, both under physiological and experimental conditions, contributing thereby to the release of post-hypophysial hormones.
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    Cell & tissue research 123 (1972), S. 47-54 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neurohypophysis ; Exocytosis ; Electron microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung 1. Elektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen an der Neurohypophyse von Ratte und Forelle ergeben, daß sich eine Exocytose von Elementargranula an den Endigungen der neurosekretorischen Fasern nur selten abspielt. Es wird daher angenommen, daß die Abgabe von Hormonen in der Neurohypophyse in der Regel nach dem Muster des „membrane-release“ abläuft. 2. Die Exocytose wird nicht durch eine unmittelbare tangentiale Fusion der Membran des Elementargranulums mit dem Plasmalemm der Nervenendigung (Axolemm) eingeleitet. Vor allem bei Anwendung eines Goniometertisches wird erkennbar, daß vor der Exocytose zwischen Axolemm und Membran des Granulums eine Verbindung in Gestalt eines Stieles entsteht. Die Länge dieses Verbindungsstückes entspricht etwa 2 Axolemmdicken. An der Basis des Stiels im Axolemm tritt das Stoma auf, durch das der Inhalt des Granulums bzw. dieses selbst das Axonende verläßt. 3. Die Herkunft kleiner membrannaher Vesikel (Durchmesser 500 Å) in den Endigungen neurosekretorischer Nervenfasern in der Neurohypophyse konnte nicht geklärt werden. Anzeichen einer kompensatorischen Endocytose im Sinne von Nagasawa, Douglas und Schulz (1970) wurden nicht beobachtet.
    Notes: Summary 1. Electron microscopical investigations of the neurohypophysis in rat and trout reveal that exocytosis of neurosecretory elementary granules from the nerve endings occurs only rarely. The authors are of the opinion that hormone release in the neural lobe follows mainly the “membrane-release” pattern. 2. Exocytosis is not performed by tangential fusion of the elementary granule membrane and the plasmalemma of the nerve ending (axolemma). Administering the goniometer technique one can observe the appearance of a stalk-like structure connecting the two membranes. The basis of the stalk in the axolemma corresponds to the site of the stoma through which the core of the vesicle leaves the nerve ending. 3. The mechanism of the origin of small clear vesicles (diameter 500 Å approx.) near the axolemma of the neurosecretory terminal has not been elucidated. The authors did not observe equivalents of a compensatory endocytosis in the vicinity of granules released by exocytosis.
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    Keywords: Neurones ; Lumbricus ; Monoamines ; Neurosecretion ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The cerebral ganglion and the ventral nerve cord of Lumbricus terrestris have been studied with the electron microscope. The results are as follows: In the neuropile small granular vesicles (300 to 500 Å) occur in some varicose nerve fibres after fixation with potassium permanganate. This indicates the presence of noradrenaline. Sometimes only a few of the vesicles produce a positive reaction. After incubation with α-methyl-noradrenaline the numbers of nerve terminals with small granular vesicles greatly increase, indicating the presence of dopamine and/or 5-hydroxytryptamine. In this case the reaction is now complete. The number of small granular vesicles is largest in the terminal swellings. These findings are consistent with histofluorescence, chemical, and microspectrofluorometric analyses, which have demonstrated noradrenaline, dopamine, and 5-hydroxytryptamine in neurones in the central nervous system. Large granular vesicles (600 to 900 Å) are to be found in some perikarya, not identical with neurosecretory cell bodies. In this case the granular vesicles in the axon are smaller and fewer. This indicates a simultaneous proximo-distal transport and gradual decrease in size of the granular vesicles. The intraneuronal distribution of the vesicles is in agreement with the distribution of the fluorophores in the fluorescent neurones. Neurosecretory neurones are found most likely not to contain monoamines.
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    Cell & tissue research 129 (1972), S. 114-139 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Pituitary gland ; Rat ; Neurophysin ; Vasopressin
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    Notes: Summary The release of neurophysin from neural lobe tissue slices and isolated neurosecretory granules of the rat was studied at various time intervals after injection of (35S) cysteine into the supraoptic nucleus. For hours after isotope injection the release of radioactive neurophysin from neural lobe tissue was increased by depolarizing concentration of potassium in the presence of calcium ions. Fourteen and 30 days after isotope injection the release of radioactive neurophysin was relatively decreased in a medium of high potassium concentration which might be explained by the heterogeneity of the pool of neurophysin within the neural lobe. Four h after isotope injection the “spontaneous” release of neurophysin from neural lobe tissue was higher in dehydrated rats than in controls, and the neural lobes of these animals did not respond with an increased release of radioactive neurophysin when exposed to high potassium concentration. Eighteen h after isotope injection the predominating proportion of neurophysin-bound radioactivity was found in the neurosecretory granule fraction, whereas 14 days after injection a fairly equal amount of radioactivity was found in this fraction and in the “soluble” protein fraction. This indicates that with time an increasing amount of radioactive neurophysin passes from an intragranular to an extragranular pool. The spontaneous release of radioactive neurophysin from isolated neurosecretory granules was higher, and the increase of release upon exposure to an ATP-regenerating system was higher 14 days after isotope injection than 18 h after injection. This may imply that the neurosecretory material undergoes an intragranular “maturation” process to become more easily releasable. The release of radioactive neurophysin was inhibited in the presence of AMP and EDTA, which demonstrates the dependence of the release process of an ATPase and, probably, of calcium ions. Neurosecretory granules from dehydrated rats possessed a higher spontaneous release than those of control rats 18 h after injection, which may indicate an enhanced intragranular “maturation” process of the neurosecretory material due to osmotic stimulation.
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    Cell & tissue research 134 (1972), S. 337-349 
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    Keywords: Median eminence of birds ; Thyrotrop function ; Neurosecretion ; Light-and electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary 1. The effects of TSH and PTU treatment with thyroid stimulating hormone and propylthiouracil on the structure of median eminence of the pigeon have been studied by light- and electron microscopy. 2. By light microscopy it has been found that the aldehydefuchsin positive material of the external layers of the anterior median eminence differs functionally from that of the neural lobe. 3. The light- and electron microscopic investigations revealed that the anterior and posterior median eminence differ both structurally and functionally. Specifically after the experimental interventions the considerable reaction can be observed only in the anterior median eminence. 4. Electron microscopically it appears possible that the aldehyde-fuchsin positive material of the anterior median eminence may be associated with the 1200–1500 Å—size granules. 5. The quantitative changes observed in the granular composition after the treatments show a close correlation with thyroid function, namely after treatment with thyroid stimulating hormone the relative quantity of the 1200–1500 Å—size granules increases markedly, while administration of propylthiouracil has the opposite effect and increases the relative quantity of the 1000 Å—size dense-core vesicles. They presumably may play a role in the control of TSH-secretion.
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    Cell & tissue research 134 (1972), S. 383-402 
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    Keywords: Nucleus praeopticus ; Xenopus, tadpole ; Neurosecretion ; Osmoregulation ; Fluorescence microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The development of the preoptic nucleus of Xenopus laevis tadpoles during metamorphosis was studied and the effect of osmotic stimulation on this process investigated. The development of this region was not affected by treatment for one or more days in hypertonic media. It was found that at the end of metamorphosis the neurosecretory cells in the preoptic nucleus are localized in three regions: the rostro-dorsal, the caudo-dorsal and the ventral region. After osmotic stimulation only the neurosecretory cells of the caudo-dorsal region appeared to have reacted, as indicated by their loss of neurosecretory (PIC positive) material. It is concluded that the cells of this region may be involved in the synthesis of the posterior lobe hormones.
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    In:  Bull., Polar Proj. OP-O3A4, Research Techniques for High Pressure and High Temperature, New York, Springer, vol. 20, no. XVI:, pp. 217-250, (ISBN: 3-540-23712-7)
    Publication Date: 1971
    Keywords: Textbook of physics ; Laboratory measurements ; Stress ; ERYBACKI
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    Cell & tissue research 114 (1971), S. 95-105 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Puromycin ; Annelids (oligochetes)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Untersucht wurde die Wirkung von Puromycin auf die neurosekretorischen Q- und P-Zellen im Cerebralganglion von Enchytraeus. Die ersten Erscheinungen treten bereits 15 min nach Applikation des Antibiotikums an den Nucleolen (periphere Auflockerung) und an den Ribosomen (Lösung von den Membranen) auf. In späteren Stadien der Puromycineinwirkung wurden Schwellung der Mitochondrien und Desintegration ihrer Innenstrukturen sowie Veränderungen des endoplasmatischen Retikulums beobachtet. Die durch Puromycin im Kern und Cytoplasma der Q- und P-Zelle hervorgerufenen Effekte entsprechen sich weitgehend. Die Befunde zeigen, daß die durch Puromycin (und wohl auch durch andere Antibiotika) ausgelösten substrukturellen Veränderungen meistens sehr komplexer Natur und daher nur selten auf direkte Ursachen zurückzuführen sind.
    Notes: Summary The influence of puromycin on the neurosecretory Q and P cells of the brain of Enchytraeus was studied. The first effects were noticeable in nucleoli and ribosomes as early as 15 min after the administration of the antibiotic. At later stages of puromycin treatment swelling of mitochondria and disintegration of their internal structure, as well as changes in the endoplasmic reticulum, were observed. The effects of puromycin on the nucleus and cytoplasm of Q and P cells were essentially similar. The results demonstrate that the ultrastructural changes caused by puromycin (and probably also by other antibiotics) are very complex and presumably not attributable to direct causes.
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    Keywords: Supraoptic nucleus ; Neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Axonal transport ; Colchicine
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    Notes: Summary The effect of colchicine on the transport of proteins in the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal tract of the rat was studied after injection of (35S) cysteine into the supraoptic nucleus (SON) region. Colchicine, dissolved in distilled water and administered subarachnoidally, inhibited the axonal transport of labelled proteins into the neurohypophysis: the radioactivity that was recovered in neurohypophyseal TCA precipitable material was markedly decreased and hardly any radioactivity was found in the neurohypophyseal proteins which were separated by polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis. As revealed by electron microscopy the SON cell bodies showed marked changes after treatment with colchicine: a deeply folded nucleolemma; a pronounced, granular nucleolus; a dispersed chromatin; a zonal distribution of cell organelles with mitochondria and lysosomes accumulated at the periphery, crowded ribosomes, often arranged as polyribosomes and richly branching short profiles of endoplasmic reticulum filled with filamentous material forming an inner perinuclear zone separated by enlarged Golgi complexes. The profiles of elongated Herring bodies in the infundibulum were increased. The axon terminals were filled with heavily osmiophilic neurosecretory granules. The neurofilaments were slightly or moderately increased in number. No apparent changes were observed with regard to the neurotubuli in the SON neurons. The glial cells of the supraopticoneurohypophyseal tract showed reactive changes with a proliferation of filamentous elements. The biochemical and ultrastructural findings are discussed especially with respect to the mechanisms of transport and release of neurosecretory granules.
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    Cell & tissue research 113 (1971), S. 344-360 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Pulmonates ; Fluorescence microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Durch Anwendung von Pseudoisocyaninchlorid lassen sich im zentralen Nervensystem von stylommatophoren Pulmonaten in allen Schlundringganglien Neurosekretzellen fluoreszenzmikroskopisch nachweisen. In den Cerebralganglien bilden sie mit ihren ausleitenden Axonen das bereits bei einigen Gastropoden bekannte geschlossene neurosekretorische System. In den übrigen Ganglien liegen die neurosekretorischen Zellen einzeln oder in Gruppen zusammen und bilden kein System. Es konnte nachgewiesen werden, daß in Visceral-Parietaganglien der untersuchten Arten die meisten sekretorischen Neurone vorkommen. Die Zahl der neurosekretorischen Zellen in den einzelnen Ganglien ist zumindest für die hier untersuchten Arten wahrscheinlich artspezifisch, ihre topographische Lage in den Ganglien aber bei allen Arten identifizierbar ähnlich. Bei allen untersuchten Pulmonaten fanden sich nur im Procerebrum keine neurosekretorischen Zellen. Die vielfältigen, über die Darstellung der Neurosekretzellen hinaus feststellbaren fluoreszenzmikroskopischen Erscheinungen in den Nerven- und Gliazellen, in der Fasermasse der Ganglien, den Kommissuren und Nerven und im Bindegewebe um die Ganglien, wurden mit Hilfe anderer lichtmikroskopischer Färbungen vergleichend untersucht; die Ergebnisse werden diskutiert.
    Notes: Summary Using fluorescence microscopy with pseudoisocyaninchloride one can demonstrate the well known cells and axons of the neurosecretory system in the cerebral ganglia of some gastropod pulmonates. In the other ganglia of the central nervous system-except procerebrum-single secretory neurones or groups of neurosecretory cells occur. These secretory neurones do not build up a neurosecretory system. The majority of these cells is concentrated in the visceral-parietal ganglia. The specific elements are topographically identifiable relative to each other in the ganglia of each species of pulmonates investigated. Other fluorescence-microscopic investigations of the neurones, glial cells and the neuropil of the ganglia, commissures and nerves and in the connective tissue surrounding the ganglia are described in comparison with other light microscopical findings obtained by staining methods; the results are discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 114 (1971), S. 61-72 
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    Keywords: Corpora cardiaca ; Neurosecretion ; Insects ; Electron microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les corpora cardiaca de l'adulte de Locusta migratoria sont formés de deux régions bien individualisées ce qui nous a permis de reconnaître la sécrétion propre des différents types de neurosécrétion. Dans la région nerveuse, nous distinguons par la taille des grains trois types de neurosécrétion dense classique et un quatrième type d'aspect clair. Dans la région »propre« non nerveuse, les cellules ont des caractères nettement endocriniens et sont mélangées à un seul type d'axones neurosécréteurs.
    Notes: Summary The corpora cardiaca of adult Locusta migratoria consist of two well separated areas, a fact which permits the differentiation between intrinsic and extrinsic neurosecretory material. In the neural area three types of electron dense “classical” neurosecretory granules, and a fourth more lucent type can be distinguished according to size. In the non-neural “glandular” area typical endocrine cells mingle with only one type of neurosecretory axons.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neuromuscular Junction ; Synaptoid ; Insect ; Frog
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    Notes: Summary Neurosecretory nerve-endings are found in association with the ventral longitudinal muscles of the body wall in locust, stick insect and blowfly larva, and with toe muscles in the frog. In the stick insect the endings are less intimately associated with the muscles than in the locust or in the blowfly larva. In the locust and the stick insect and in the frog there are separate “neurosecretory” and “ordinary” motor endings but in the blowfly larva the characteristic features of motor and neurosecretory endings are combined in the same axon. The apparent sites of release of neurosecretory material show a characteristically rippled plasma membrane and are covered by only a flimsy layer of connective tissue material (stroma). In all three insects studied most of the neurosecretory material appears to be liberated into the haemolymph. Neurosecretory material appears to be released through the membrane at any point however, including, in the locust and in the blowfly larva, that part applied to the muscle. In the stick insect no endings have been seen as closely associated with the muscle as in the other two species. In the frog, as in the stick insect, the neurosecretory material is not liberated directly on to the muscle but into the connective tissue that lies between muscle fibres.
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    Keywords: Hypophysis ; Chondrichthyens ; Embryology ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'identification et la répartition des cellules endocrines dans l'ébauche adénohypophysaire de Scyllium canicula, et la chronologie de la différenciation cellulaire et de l'histogenèse de cette glande ont fait l'objet de ce travail. Plus nettement encore que chez l'adulte on démontre qu'il y a quatre populations de cellules hormonogènes, localisées chacune dans un lobe différent. Les grains de sécrétion des cellules du lobe rostral sont glycoprotidiques et ont un diamètre modal, de 170 nm, ceux du lobe médian, de la même taille, sont protidiques ou polypeptidiques. Les gros granules du lobe neuro-intermédiaire (diamètre modal 260 nm) sont glycoprotidiques, les petits granules du lobe ventral (diamètre modal 120 nm), protidiques au polypeptidiques. Au stade 10 mm, les cellules de la poche de Rathke sont différenciées de celles de l'épithélium stomodéal par la présence d'inclusions énigmatiques, les ≪godd bodies≫ de Schechter. Au stade 35 mm les cellules des noyaux préoptiques et du tuber comportent des grains de neurosécrétion, de même diamètre, variant autour de 100 nm. A ce même stade, des granules apparaissent simultanément dans les quatre lobes de l'hypophyse, notamment dans le lobe neuro-intermédiaire où aucune fibre neurosécrétrice n'est encore décelée. L'innervation directe des cellules endocrines de ce lobe ne s'effectue qu'au stade 45 mm et s'accompagne de modifications de la taille des granules. La fin du développement embryonnaire se caractérise par une charge de plus en plus importante des cellules endocrines, en granules.
    Notes: Summary The identification and distribution of endocrine cells in embryonic adenohypophysis of Seyllium canicula, and chronology of cellular differentiation and histogenesis of this gland have been investigated in this work. More clearly than in the adult, the presence of four populations of endocrine cells, each one located in a different lobe, is demonstrated. Secretion granules of rostral lobe cells are glycoprotidic, their modal diameter is 170 nm; median lobe ones, of same dimensions, are protidic or polypeptidic. The nemo-intermediate lobe big granules (modal diameter: 260 nm) are glycoprotidic, the ventral lobe small granules (modal diameter: 120 nm), protidic or polypeptidic. At stage 10 mm, Rathke's pouch cells are recognized from stomodeal epithelium by enigmatic inclusions, the “odd bodies” of Schechter. At stage 35 mm, preoptic and tuberal nucleus cells include neurosecretory granules of same diameter varying about 100 nm. At this same stage, granules appear simultaneously in the four hypophyseal lobes, including the neuro-intermediate lobe where no neurosecretory fiber is present. Direct innervation of endocrine cells of this lobe is accomplished at stage 45 mm and is accompanied by changes of granules dimensions. The end of embryonic development is characterized by increasing granular load of endocrine cells.
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    Cell & tissue research 122 (1971), S. 283-300 
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    Keywords: Paraventricular nucleus ; Rat ; Synthesis of hormones ; Acid phosphatase ; Osmium impregnation ; Neurosecretion
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    Notes: Summary The ultrastructural features of the paraventricular neurones of the non-treated rat are presented comparing them with those of the supraoptic neurones. No striking differences are seen between the general electron microscopic characteristics of the paraventricular and supraoptic neurones. The importance of adequate fixation to obtain good preservation of the neurones is emphasized, since inadequate fixation can cause e.g. artefactual appearance of “dark neurones”. The previously presented classification of the neurosecretory neurones into two categories (e.g. “light and dark neurones”) on the basis of the number of ribosomes is not considered justifiable, since their number can vary to a very great extent even within a single cell. The synthesis of neurosecretory products in the paraventricular neurones obviously follows the general mode of the synthesis of secretory proteins: ribosomes—RER—Golgi complex—secretory vesicles. On the basis of the localization of heavy metal deposits after osmium impregnation and demonstration of acid phosphatase the Golgi complex of the paraventricular neurones is found to be polarized. The direction of the polarity is discussed. The substructures of the dense cores of the neurosecretory granules and of the contents of the lysosomal dense bodies are nearly identical. Therefore it is considered impossible to determine positively the nature of the dark condensed material within the Golgi complex. The characteristics of the immature neurosecretory granules and the possibility of releasing neurosecretory products into the cytoplasm already within the perikarya are speculated.
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    Calcified tissue international 5 (1970), S. 222-235 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Mechanochemistry ; Bone ; Remodeling ; Stress
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Un mécanisme nouveau tente d'expliquer comment des forces mécaniques augmentées ou diminuées, appliquées à l'os, sont transformées en activité ostéoblastique et/ou ostéoclastique. Une hypothèse mécano-chimique du remaniement osseux, induit par stress mécanique, est émise pour expliquer ce phénomène. L'os répond á un stress mécanique par une croissance différentielle de façon á résister au stress appliqué: par suite le remaniement osseux induit mécaniquement est probablement sous le controle d'un système “feedback” négatif. L'hypothèse consiste dans le fait qu'un changement de charge au niveau de l'os modifie la tension au niveau des cristaux d'apatite de l'os. Ceci modifie la solubilité des cristaux qui fournit ainsi le message de “feedback” négatif nécessaire aux cellules osseuses, sous la forme d'un changement chimique, indiut par un phénomène mécanique. Les cellules aggissent alors pour compenser les modifications de l'activé calcique localisée soit en construisant de l'os pour redistribuer le stress augmenté, ou en résorbant de l'os, qui est en surplus des besoins structuraux, liés à un stress réduit. Pour tester cette hypothèse, des cristaux d'hydroxyleapatite sont soumis à un stress et des changements d'activité ionique du calcium sont enregistrés à l'aide d'une électrode à cation divalent. Les résultats démontrent qu'un effet mécano-chimique peut etre détecté dans les cristaux d'apatite qui, soumis à un stress, engendrent une activité en calcium de 9×10−5 moles/litres et de 7×10−5 moles/litre, dans des conditions sans stress. Les résultats expérimentaux de cette étude et les données de la physiologie cellulaire s'accordent avec l'hypothèse mécano-chimique proposée.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Um zu erklären, in welcher Weise auf Knochen applizierte, erhöhte oder verminderte mechanische Stresse zu einer Osteoblasten- und/oder Osteoklastenaktivität führen, wird ein neuer Mechanismus vorgeschlagen. Eine mechanochemische Hypothese der Knochenneubildung, verursacht durch mechanische Stresse, wird besprochen, um dieses Phänomen zu erklären. Knochen reagiert auf mechanische Stresse mit differenziertem Wachstum, um damit dem angewandten Stress zu widerstehen; daraus folgt, daß mechanisch induzierte Knochenneubildung vermutlich durch ein negatives Feedback-System reguliert wird. Die Hypothese besteht darin, daß eine Veränderung der Ladung des Knochens eine Veränderung der Spannung der Hydroxyapatitkristalle im Knochen zur Folge hat. Dies wiederum verändert die Löslichkeit der Kristalle und gibt damit die benötigte negative Feedback-Botschaft an die Knochenzellen in Form einer mechanischinduzierten chemischen Umgestaltung weiter. Die Zellen verhalten sich nun dementsprechend, um der Änderung der örtlichen Calciumaktivität entgegenzuwirken; entweder wird Knochengewebe gebildet, um einen erhöhten Stress neu zu verteilen, oder jener Knochenanteil wird beseitigt, der bei reduziertem Stress einen Überschuß der Strukturbedürfnisse darstellt. Um diese Annahme zu überprüfen, wurden synthetische Hydroxyapatitkristalle einem Stress unterworfen, und die Änderung in der Aktivität der Calciumionen wurde mittels einer divalenten Elektrode zur Messung der Kationenaktivität registriert. Die Resultate zeigen, daß ein mechanochemischer Effekt in den Hydroxyapatitkristallen nachgewiesen werden kann, die unter Stress eine Calciumaktivität von 9·10−5 Mol/Liter, dagegen ohne Stress eine solche von 7·10−5 Mol/Liter erzeugen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchungen einerseits und die Aussagen der Zellenphysiologie andererseits stimmen mit der hier vorgeschlagenen mechanochemischen Hypothese überein.
    Notes: Abstract A new mechanism is presented to explain how increased or decreased mechanical stresses applied to bone are translated into osteoblastic and/or osteoclastic activity. A mechano-chemical hypothesis for bone remodeling induced by mechanical stress is presented in an attempt to explain this phenomenon. Bone responds to mechanical stress by differential growth so as to resist the applied stress; therefore mechanically induced bone remodeling is probably regulated by a negative feedback system. The hypothesis is that a change in the loading of bone results in an altered straining of the hydroxyapatite crystals in bone. This in turn alters the solubility of the crystals, providing the required negative feedback message to the bone cells in the form of a mechanically induced chemical change. The cells then take appropriate action to compensate for the alteration in the localized calcium activity either by building up bone to redistribute an increased stress, or by removing bone which is surplus to the structural needs imposed by a reduced stress. In order to test the hypothesis, synthetic hydroxyapatite crystals were stressed and changes in calcium ion activity were recorded from a divalent cation activity electrode. The results show that a mechanochemical effect can be detected in hydroxyapatite crystals which, when stressed, generate a calcium activity of 9×10−5 moles/l compared to 7×10−5 moles/l when unstressed. The experimental results in this study and evidence from cellular physiology are consistent with the mechanochemical hypothesis proposed here.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Actinomycin ; Protein synthesis ; Annelids (Oligochetes)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die Wirkung von Aktinomycin auf die neurosekretorischen Q-und P-Zellen im Cerebralganglion von Enchytraeus wurde untersucht. Die Cytophotometrie lichtmikroskopischer Präparate von Q-Zellen ergab, daß in den ersten Stunden nach Aktinomycin-Behandlung eine deutliche Verminderung PAF-positiven Materials auftritt. Die ersten Veränderungen wurden elektronenmikroskopisch zwischen 1 und 4 Std nach Aktinomycin-Injektion beobachtet. Sie waren in beiden Zelltypen am eindeutigsten am Nucleolus. Es kommt zu einer Sonderung und räumlichen Trennung von granulärem und fibrillärem Material. Letzteres wird sehr stark vermehrt. In bezug auf Veränderungen der Strukturen des Cytoplasmas unterscheiden sich die Q-und P-Zellen besonders im Verhalten des Golgi-Apparates und der Ribosomen. Der Golgi-Apparat wird in den Q-Zellen kurze Zeit nach Applikation von Aktinomycin reduziert. In den P-Zellen persistiert er dagegen über alle beobachteten Zeitstufen hinweg. Die Ribosomen lösen sich von den Membranen in den Q-Zellen 4–8 Std nach Injektion, was in den P-Zellen nicht festzustellen ist. Diese Tatsachen führen zu der Annahme, daß das System der Proteinsynthese der P-Zellen relativ stabiler als das der Q-Zellen ist. Die in den späteren Zeitstufen beobachtete Normalisierung der Zellstrukturen läßt darauf schließen, daß die Wirkung des einmalig injizierten Aktinomycins 24 Std danach nachzulassen beginnt.
    Notes: Summary The influence of actinomycin on the neurosecretory Q and P cells of the brain of Enchytraeus was studied. Cytophotometrical measurements of Q cells in light mirocscopic preparations showed a significant decrease of PAF-positive material in the first hours after actinomycin application. At the ultrastructural level primary changes were established one to four hours after injection of actinomycin: In the nucleolus granular and fibrillar material became separated; there was a substantial increase of the fibrillar component. Concerning structural changes of the cytoplasm, Q and P cells differed especially with respect to the Golgi apparatus and the ribosomes. In the Q cells the Golgi apparatus had become greatly reduced shortly after actinomycin treatment. However, it persisted in P cells during all stages examined. Ribosomes became detached from membranes only in Q cells between 4 and 8 hours after injection. These data indicate that protein synthesis in P cells shows greater stability than in Q cells. The restitution of normal ultrastruoture during subsequent stages indicates that effects begin to subside 24 hours after a single injection.
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    Cell & tissue research 109 (1970), S. 573-582 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Herring Bodies ; Lysosomal Residues ; Aging
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Im Anschluß an frühere Beobachtungen über die Reaktion von Herringk: orpern auf osmotische Belastung wurden die Veränderungen dieser Strukturen mit zunehmendem Alter studiert. In parallelen färberisch-lichtmikroskopischen und elektronenmikroskopischen Untersuchungen wurden die im Gebiet der Nuclei supraopticus und paraventricularis gelegenen Herringkörper von jungen (3 Monate) und alten (15–20 Monate) Ratten miteinander verglichen. Bei alten Tieren findet man im Lichtmikroskop eine starke Zunahme der durch Neurosekretfärbung darstellbaren Herringkörper und im Elektronenmikroskop eine Füllung dieser Gebilde mit „dense bodies“ und Myelinkörpern. Diese werden als lysosomale Residualkörper gedeutet, die aus den neurosekretorischen Perikarya in die Zellfortsätze abgeschoben werden und sich dort mit zunehmendem Alter anhäufen. Die fraglichen Zellfortsätze werden aufgrund von morphologischen und topographischen Gesichtspunkten als Dendriten angesehen.
    Notes: Summary In continuation of previous investigations on the reaction of neurosecretory Herring bodies to osmotic stress, the alterations of these structures with increasing age were studied. The Herring bodies located in the vicinity of the supraoptic and paraventricular nucleus of young (3 months) and aged (15–20 months) rats were compared by means of light and electron microscopy. In old rats, the light microscope reveals a strong increase in the number of Herring bodies as visualized by neurosecretory stain whereas the electron microscope exhibits an accumulation of dense bodies and myelinated bodies inside these structures. These are interpreted as lysosomal residual bodies which are transported from the neurosecretory pericarya into the cell processes, thus accumulating with increasing age. Morphological and topographical considerations lead to the assumption that the storage sites are dilatations of dendrites.
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    Cell & tissue research 111 (1970), S. 316-345 
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    Keywords: Electron microscopy ; Histophysiology of median eminence ; Avian neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les effets de l'adénohypophysectomie et de diverses sollicitations de l'axe hypothalamo-hypophysio-corticosurrénalien sur l'ultrastructure de l'Eminence Médiane (E.M.) ont été étudiés chez le Pigeon. 1. Chez le Pigeon entier, l'Eminence Médiane Caudale (E.M.C.) se distingue de l'Eminence Médiane Rostrale (E.M.R.) essentiellement par l'absence dans les deux couches les plus externes (couches palissadique et superficielle) de l'E.M.C. de granules de gros calibres (1600 à 1900 Å), la rareté de granules de diamètre moyen (1200–1400 Å) et la prédominance de petites vésicules à cœur dense de 600–800 Å. 2. La préhypophysectomie entraine: a) dans l'E.M.R. la quasi disparition de granulations dans les deux couches externes; b) dans l'E.M.C. la ≪vidange≫ de nombreux axones, mais un enrichissement relatif, parmi les granulations restantes, des granulations de gros calibre (1600–1900 Å) aux dépens des granules de plus petit calibre. 3. Un shock insulinique entraine des modifications du même ordre: a) déplétion des granules denses, limitée dans ce cas à la portion la plus antérieure des deux couches externes de l'E.M.R.; b) enrichissement relatif des granulations de moyen (1200–1400 Å) et de gros (1600–1900 Å) calibre dans l'E.M.C. avec, en plus dans l'E.M.C., un enrichissement en vésicules de type synaptique. 4. Un traitement à la métopirone produit un accroissement du nombre des granulations de moyen (1200–1400 Å) calibre dans les couches externes de l'E.M.R. et de l'E.M.C., et un enrichissement important de l'E.M.C. en vésicules de type synaptique. 5. Le traitement à la prednisolone conduit à un enrichissement très marqué des couches externes de l'E.M.R. en grains de 1200–1400 Å, et à un enrichissement des couches externes de l'E.M.C. en granulations de 1000 Å. Ces résultats sont discutés dans la perspective des régulations hypothalamo-corticotropes, particulièrement en ce qui concerne les granules de 1200–1400 Å.
    Notes: Summary The effects of adenohypophysectomy, and of several experimental interventions on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal cortical axis have been studied in relation to the fine structure of the median eminence in the pigeon. 1. In control animals, the following morphological features of the caudal median eminence (C.M.E.) distinguish it from the rostral median eminence (R.M.E.): a) the absence in both external layers of the C.M.E. of large (1,600–1,900 Å) electron-dense granules, b) the presence in the C.M.E. of a small number of medium-size (1,200–1,400 Å) granules, and c) the predominance in the C.M.E. of small (600–800 Å) dense-core vesicles. 2. Adenohypophysectomy leads to: a) almost complete disappearance of electron-dense granules in both external layers of the R.M.E., and b) “emptying” of numerous axons and a relative increase in the number of large (1,600–1,900 Å) granules in the C.M.E. 3. Insulin shock produces modifications similar to those of adenohypophysectomy. The depletion of electron-dense granules from the axons is, however, restricted to the most anterior part of the R.M.E., and, in the C.M.E., the relative increase in the number of larger granules affects the 1,200–1,400 Å and the 1,600–1,900 Å size granules. 4. Metopirone enhances the number of medium-size (1,200–1,400 Å) granules in the external layers of both the R.M.E. and the C.M.E. and causes a significant increase in the number of synaptic-like vesicles in the C.M.E. 5. Prednisolone treatment leads to a marked enrichment of the external layers of the R.M.E. with 1,200–1,400 Å granules, and of the external layers of the C.M.E. with 1,000 Å granules. These results have been discussed with special reference to the hypothalamic control of the adrenocorticotropic function, especially reviewing the role of the 1,200–1,400 Å granules.
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    Cell & tissue research 111 (1970), S. 293-315 
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    Keywords: Herring bodies ; Ultrastructure ; Degeneration ; Regeneration ; Neurosecretion
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    Notes: Summary The Herring bodies in the posterior lobe of the bovine hypophysis are very large (2–600 μ) and can be classified into three types. The type I Herring body contains an accumulation of neurosecretory granules. These Herring bodies are very scarce and should not be confused with the numerous, but small, axonal swellings which also contain neurosecretory granules. The type II Herring body is characterized by the presence of a varying number of normal, moderately electron dense and “empty” vesicles, autophagic vacuoles, multilamellate bodies and occasional mitochondria. These Herring bodies are frequently observed. The type III Herring body is typified by the presence of dense vesicles connected to tubular formations which contain material of variable electron density, of filaments, and of long slender and very numerous mitochondria. The presence of multilamellate bodies and autophagic vacuoles suggests that the type II Herring body is in a degenerating phase. This concept is further substantiated by the similarity between this type of Herring body and transected neurosecretory axons in which degeneration is occurring. A similar comparison suggests that the type III Herring body is undergoing a regenerative process. Our current concept of the structure and function of Herring bodies is revised in the discussion.
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    Keywords: Hypothalamus (rat) ; Neurosecretion ; Air ions ; Diuresis
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les noyaux supra-optiques et paraventriculaires de l'hypothalamus du Rat albinos soumis aux ions atmosphériques positifs pendant 20 et 40 jours, présentent des signes d'hypo-activité: tendance à la diminution des volumes nucléaires et nucléolaires, augmentation des granules de neurosécrétat dans le cytoplasme des cellules neurosécrétrices, et diminution du matériel neurosécrétoire au long des axones. Corrélativement, la post-hypophyse est très appauvrie (surtout après 40 jours) en matériel coloré par l'hématoxyline chromique. On peut admettre, à la lumière de résultats antérieurs ou non publiés, que cette hypoactivité des neurones hypothalamiques est liée à une hyposécrétion d'hormone antidiurétique (A.D.H.). Cependant, on ne note pas de polyurie, mais une oligurie qui tend à disparaître une quinzaine de jours après le début du traitement; ceci suggère l'idée d'une réponse homéostatique hypothalamo-hypophysaire consécutive à un trouble du métabolisme hydrique induit par un autre facteur oligurique. Par ailleurs, Krueger a trouvé que l'aéro-ionisation positive entraine une augmentation du taux sanguin de sérotonine dont l'action antidiurétique au niveau rénal est bien connue. Ceci permet d'expliquer une composante oligurique initiale, provoquant en retour une inhibition hypothalamo-post-hypophysaire, de signification diurétique, cette réaction hypothalamique, ne normalisant la diurèse qu'au bout d'une quinzaine de jours, lors de l'épuisement de la réserve en ADH de la neuro-hypophyse. L'ensemble des modifications du métabolisme hydrominéral observées après aéro-ionisation positive peut s'expliquer de façon satisfaisante par l'augmentation du taux sanguin de sérotonine, contrebalancée progressivement par la réduction du taux d'ADH.
    Notes: Summary In the hypothalamus of albino rats submitted to positive air ions for 20 to 40 days, supra-optic and paraventricular nuclei exhibit various signs of hypo-activity: a slight decrease of nuclear and nucleolar volumes, an increase of the amount of neurosecretory granules in these neurones, while the migration of the neurosecretory material in the axons is diminished, almost no staining substance being detected along the axons. Simultaneously, the chrome-haematoxylin positive material is greatly reduced in the neurohypophysis, mainly after 40 days. Considering these data and other results, either unpublished or previously reported by various authors, it appears that the hypo-activity observed in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system may be correlated with a hyposecretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH). There is no increase of diuresis; instead, an antidiuresis was noted which tends to disappear after about two weeks of treatment. This finding suggests that the hypothalamo-hypophysial response observed may be due to a disturbance of water metabolism induced by another antidiuretic factor. Besides, it was established that a treatment with positive air ions induces a significant increase of the serotonin level of the blood (Krueger). As an antidiuretic effect is directly exerted by serotonin on the kidneys, it may be responsible for the antidiuresis observed in this experiment. The inhibition of hypothalamic nuclei according to histological criteria would represent a homeostatic response trying to compensate the antidiuresis initially produced by serotonin, the neurohypophysial storage of ADH delaying the efficiency of this hypothalamic inhibition. All the available data on the modifications of water and electrolyte metabolism detected after a positive aero-ionization may be explained satisfactorily by an increase of the serotonin level of the blood, progressively counteracted by a decrease of ADH.
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    Cell & tissue research 108 (1970), S. 190-224 
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Neurohaemal areas ; Invertebrates ; Lymnaea stagnalis L. ; Cytology
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    Notes: Summary In the central ganglia of Lymnaea stagnalis neurosecretory cell groups have previously been identified by means of chrome-haematoxylin or paraldehyde-fuchsin stains. In the present study seven types have been distinguished within the class of Gomori-positive cells on the basis of different staining reactions with the alcian blue/alcian yellow technique. Five types are located in the cerebral ganglia and in the lateral lobes, whereas two cell types occur in the ganglia of the visceral ring. No neurosecretory cells have been observed in the buccal and pedal ganglia. The staining technique used proved to be superior to the classic neurosecretory stains, because with this method the secretory substances can easily be distinguished from nonsecretory Gomori-positive tissue constituents. One of the two Gomori-negative neurosecretory cell types of the cerebral ganglia react positively with the alcian blue/alcian yellow technique. In addition, two Gomori-negative neurosecretory cell types, which had not been described before, were identified in the visceral ring. The ultrastructure of the four neurosecretory cell types in the visceral ring is described. The electron microscope revealed that each of the histochemically distinguished secretory substances consists of elementary granules which differ in size and appearance from each other and from the neurosecretory elementary granules which have been described by other authors in the cerebral ganglia and in the lateral lobes. The neurohaemal areas of the neurosecretory cells in the visceral ring are very extensive and include the peripheral parts of the nuchal nerves and of the connectives and nerves of the ganglia of the ring. The perineurium and the adjacent parts of the connective tissue which surround the ganglia, the connectives and the nerves are regarded as additional neurohaemal zones, because in these regions many tiny nerves occur, which consist mainly of neurosecretory axons ending non-synaptically near parts of the vascular system. In the perineurium surrounding the cerebral ganglia and their neurohaemal area a similar network of neurosecretory fibres was observed. Indications of release of the secretory material were regularly observed. Release apparently takes place by exocytosis. A circadian rhythmicity was observed in the release activity of some of the neurosecretory cell types.
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    Cell & tissue research 109 (1970), S. 64-82 
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    Keywords: Median eminence ; Avian neurohypophysis ; Neurosecretion ; Electronmicroscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'étude ultra-structurale de l'éminence médiane (E.M.) du Canard, réalisée à l'aide d'une fixation par perfusion intracarotidienne fait apparaître plusieurs traits saillants particulièrement remarquables: a) Dans la couche sous-épendymaire, l'existence de neurones infundibulaires dispersés, de fibres parfois dilatées renfermant des granulations à cœur dense, et de vaisseaux structuralement aptes à drainer des sécrétions. b) Dans la couche fibreuse, la présence d'axones appartenant au faisceau hypothalamopost-hypophysaire, dont les granulations semblent se différencier comme dans la Pars Nervosa. c) Dans la couche palissadique l'existence de trois types de fibres neurosécrétoires au moins: Type 1: Granulations comprises entre 1100 et 1600 Å (avec une subdivision possible: 1100–1300 et 1300–1600 Å), associées éventuellement à des vésicules de 400–600 Å. Type 2: Granulations ≦1000 Å (pouvant être également subdivisées en deux catégories: 800 Å et 1000 Å), avec généralement de nombreuses vésicules de 400 à 600 Å. Type 3: Vésicules de 400 à 600 Å, sans granulations. La différence entre les régions rostrale et caudale de l'E.M. est due essentiellement à une variation dans les proportions relatives de ces différentes catégories axonales, le type 1 étant plus abondant dans la région antérieure, et le type 2 dans la postérieure.
    Notes: Summary Ultra-structural studies, performed after fixation by intracarotidal perfusion, have revealed some peculiar features in the duck median eminence (M.E.): a) Within the subependymal layer, there were scattered neurons belonging to the nucleus infundibularis, axons and varicosities with dense core granules, and capillaries with structural characteristics similar to those in the superficial layer; b) Within the fiber layer, were seen the axons of the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial tract, with granules showing the same differentiation as found within the pars nervosa; c) Within the palisade layer, there was evidence for at least three main types of neurosecretory axons: Type 1 axons, containing granules ranging from 1,100 to 1,600 Å (with a possible subdivision into 1,100–1,300 Å and 1,300–1,600 Å), possibly associated with 400–600 Å vesicles. Type 2 axons, including granules ≦1,000 Å (with a possible subdivision into 800 and 1,000 Å), associated with numerous 400–600 Å vesicles. Type 3 axons, containing 400–600 Å vesicles, but without dense granules. At the ultrastructural level, the main difference between the rostral and caudal M.E. essentially lies in the relative percentage of these 3 axon types. Type 1 axons were found to be more numerous within the anterior M.E., whereas Type 2 axons were more abundant in the caudal region.
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    Keywords: Neurosecretion ; Gastropoda ; Fluorescence ; Electron microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Durch Vergleich fluoreszenz- und elektronenmikroskopischer Untersuchungen am zentralen Nervensystem von Planorbarius corneus L. wird nachgewiesen, daß in den Schlundringganglien Neurosekretzellen vorkommen (Nachweis mit Pseudoisocyaninchlorid), die mit Nervenzellen nicht identisch sind, die durch ihren hohen Gehalt an biogenen Aminen auffallen (Nachweis durch die Methode von Falck und Owman, 1965). Es können daher im Schlundring von Planorbarius corneus peptiderge und aminerge Neurosekretzellen unterschieden werden. Die PSC-positiven Neurosekretzellen enthalten elektronendichte Elementargrana und die aminergen Neurone „dense-core“ Vesikel. Der Nachweis biogener Amine in einigen Nervenzellen von Planorbarius corneus spicht für deren chemische Identität mit Transmittersubstanzen, ihre hohe Konzentration aber für eine Abgabe in die Körperflüssigkeit.
    Notes: Summary The neurosecretory system of the snail Planorbarius corneus has been investigated by fluorescence and electron microscopy. With the fluorochrome Pseudoisocyanin the established neurosecretory system in the cerebral ganglia and single neurosecretory cells in the other ganglia show an intensive yellow fluorescence. Electron micrographs reveal the presence of electron dense granules (elementary granules) in the pericarya and the axons of neurones which have the same localisation in the ganglia as the pseudoisocyanin-positive cells. The fluorescence technique for biogenic amines produces yellow and green fluorescence within neurons and in the neuropil and nerves. The fluorescence obtained in determinable areas and neurones correlates well with the electron microscopic location of “dense-core” vesicles within the pericarya and axons of cells in even the same areas. It is discussed, that in this animal both types of cells are so-called “neurosecretory cells”, because the high content of elementary granules in the “peptidergic neurosecretory cells” and of “dense-core” vesicles in the “aminergic neurosecretory cells” is an indication for secretion of these products in neurohaemal areas (circulatory channels).
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    Cell & tissue research 103 (1970), S. 483-501 
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    Keywords: Cerebrospinal fluid ; Contacting neurons ; Paraventricular nucleus ; Neurosecretion
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Der neurosekretorische Nucleus paraventricularis von Reptilien wurde licht- und elektronenmikroskopisch untersucht. Zellen dieses Kernes bilden ventrikuläre Fortsätze, welche mit knöpfchenförmigen Endigungen — „Liquorkontaktnervenendigungen“ — in das Lumen des 3. Ventrikels vordringen. — Der Nucleus paraventricularis der Sumpfschildkröte (Emys orbicularis) besteht aus einer proximalen, am Ependym liegenden Zelllage und einer distalen Nervenzellgruppe. Zwischen den Zellreihen sind synaptische Zonen vorhanden. Elektronenmikroskopisch weisen die knöpfchenförmigen, mit dem Liquor in Kontakt stehenden Nervenendigungen Elemente des endoplasmatischen Retikulums, freie Ribosomen und eine wechselnde Anzahl von Mitochondrien auf. Die Endigungen enthalten neurosekretorische Elementargranula (Durchmesser 1300–1800 Å) und sind mit atypischen Zilien versehen, zu denen meist zwei Basalkörperchen mit langen Zilienwurzeln gehören. Die Liquorkontakt-Endigungen sind mit den benachbarten Ependymzellen und mitunter untereinander durch Desmosomen verbunden. — Im Lumen des 3. Ventrikels treten auch dünne, Katecholamingranula enthaltende Axone auf, die mit den den Liquor erreichenden Nervenendigungen des Nucleus paraventricularis Synapsen bilden. Synapsen werden außerdem auf den ventrikulären und peripheren Fortsätzen und an den neurosekretorischen Perikaryen beschrieben. In den synaptischen Zonen findet man axodendritische Synapsen, deren Dendrit neurosekretorische Elementargranula enthält. — Die morphologische Ähnlichkeit zwischen neurosekretorischen Liquorkontakt-Nervenendigungen und denen des Liquorkontakt-Neuronensystems wird hervorgehoben. An Hand der Ergebnisse wird die Bedeutung und Funktion der neurosekretorischen, mit dem Liquor in Kontakt tretenden Nervenendigungen im Rahmen des Informationsaustausches zwischen Liquor cerebrospinalis und dem neuroendokrinen System diskutiert.
    Notes: Summary The neurosecretory paraventricular nucleus of reptilia was studied light and electron microscopically. Nerve cells of this nucleus form ventricular processes which as club-like endings — “liquor contacting nerve endings” — protrude into the lumen of the 3rd ventricle. — The paraventricular nucleus of the turtle, Emys orbicularis, is built up of a proximal neuronal layer situated close to the ependyma, and of a distal group of neurons. Synaptic zones can be found between the cell rows. As demonstrated electronmicroscopically, the club-shaped liquor contacting nerve endings show elements of the endoplasmic reticulum, free ribosomes and mitochondria in various amounts. The terminals contain neurosecretory elementary granules (diameter about 1,300–1,800 Å) and bear atypical cilia supplied mostly with two basal bodies and long rootlet fibres. The liquor contacting nerve endings are connected by desmosomes with the neighbouring ependymal cells and sometimes with one another. — In the lumen of the 3rd ventricle, also small axons containing catecholamine granules, can be found. These neurites form synapses with the liquor contacting nerve terminals of the paraventricular nucleus. Furthermore, synapses situated on the ventricular and peripheral nerve processes and on the neurosecretory perikarya, are described. In the synaptic zones, axodendritic synapses occur; the dendrite contains neurosecretory elementary granules. — The morphological similarity between neurosecretory liquor contacting nerve terminals and those of the liquor contacting neuronal system is stressed. On the basis of the results, the significance and function of the neurosecretory liquor contacting terminals is discussed in connection with the exchange of informations between cerebrospinal fluid and the neuroendocrine system.
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    Cell & tissue research 103 (1970), S. 544-558 
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    Keywords: Supraoptico-hypophysial system ; Rabbit ; Neurosecretion ; Nucleus paraventricularis ; Nucleus supraopticus ; Nucleus suprachiasmaticus
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Im Zwischenhirn von 16 Kaninchen wurde das supraopticohypophysäre System mit Neurosekretfärbungen untersucht. Die Ausdehnung der großzelligen Kerngebiete und der Verlauf ihrer Axone wurde den Ergebnissen von Ford und Kantounis (1957) gegenübergestellt. Die Ganglienzellen des Nucleus paraventricularis lassen sich morphologisch und topographisch in zwei Gruppen unterteilen. In den Ganglienzellen des Nucleus suprachiasmaticus kommen Granula vor, die mit Paraldehydfuchsin, Gallocyanin und Pseudoisocyanin dargestellt werden können. Im Infundibulum der untersuchten Kaninchen findet sich eine Doppelung des Tractus supraoptico-hypophyseos. Paraldehydfuchsin-, gallocyanin- und pseudoisocyaninpositives Material in der Adenohypophyse und solches im Zwischenlappen wird beschrieben; die Substanz im Zwischenlappen kann als Neurosekret gedeutet werden.
    Notes: Summary In the diencephalon of 16 rabbits the supraoptico-hyophysial system was studied by means of special stainings for neurosecretory substances. The extent of the magnocellular nuclear areas and the course of the respective axons were traced and compared with the findings of Ford and Kantounis (1957). Morphologically and topographically the nerve cells of the nucleus paraventricularis can be subdivided into two groups. In the nerve-cell bodies of the nucleus suprachiasmaticus neurosecretory granules are demonstrated by means of paraldehydfuchsine, gallocyanine and pseudoisocyanine. In the infundibulum of the rabbits investigated there is a duplication of the supraoptico-hypophysial tract. Substances reacting with paraldehydfuchsine, gallocyanine and pseudoisocyanine are found in both the anterior and intermediate lobes of the hypophysis; the substance found in the intermediate lobe is regarded as a neurosecretory material.
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    Cell & tissue research 103 (1970), S. 559-569 
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    Keywords: Hypothalamus ; Guinea-pig ; Fluorescence ; Neurosecretion
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    Notes: Summary Sections of guinea-pig hypothalamus stained by various methods have been studied under bright-field and fluorescence microscopy to determine the characteristics of refractile granules originally observed in fixed tissue stained for cholinesterases but also seen in unfixed, unstained material. When sections of fresh tissue or tissue fixed in formaldehyde: Na2SO4 were examined by fluorescence microscopy, the granules emitted with a wave-length between 600 and 620 mμ. The density and distribution of the granules closely paralleled that of one of the components that stained with the aldehyde-fuchsin and chrome-alum techniques for neurosecretory substance; granules were absent, however, from the area characterized by Herring substance, and from the stained perikarya and beaded axons of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei. The granules were most numerous in the median eminence and infundibular nuclei. Their concentration was about “average” in mature males and in lactating and hypophysectomized females; they were more abundant in late pregnancy and after ovariectomy and were particularly plentiful some weeks after hysterectomy. They were virtually absent from immature males and females. The possible relation of the granules to releasing factors or to vasotocin-like neurosecretory material is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 104 (1970), S. 517-529 
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    Keywords: Hypothalamo-hypophysial system ; Neurosecretion ; Guinea pig ; Development
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    Notes: Summary The time and place of occurrence of the neurosecretory substance in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system of the guinea pig during embryogenesis have been investigated. Use is made of the luminiscence of neurosecretion stained with paraldehydefuchsin when observed in a dark field. It is established that the neurosecretory material occurs first in some cells of the supraoptic nucleus about the 39th–40th day of intrauterine development. In the paraventricular nucleus it is observed about the 44th–45th day. At that time it is seen also in Eminentia mediana and in the neurohypophysis. In the latter, however, it is in a smaller amount than in the areas situated above it. These results are discussed in connection with the transport theory of Bargmann and Scharrer.
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    Cell & tissue research 105 (1970), S. 303-316 
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    Keywords: Eye ; Arthropods ; Neurosecretion ; Microscopy, Electron
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    Notes: Summary The lateral rudimentary eye of Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab, is located beneath the posterior border of the compound eye. It consists of a bipartite mass of guanophores and about 100 associated photoreceptor cells. These neurons, up to 150 μ in diameter, have standard attributes of arthropod retinula cells and send large, uninterrupted axons to the brain. Their cytoplasm contains conspicuous clumps of residual bodies and variable, but usually extensive, masses of glycogen and glycoprotein. Hence, these neurons are not neurosecretory in the strict sense, notwithstanding axonal transport of glycogen masses toward the brain. Efferent axons to the rudimentary eye terminate in synaptoid fashion on the axon hillock of sensory cells. Since the rudimentary eye does not transmit impulses to the brain, but is photosensitive, its function may reside in a metabolic responsiveness to long-term changes in illumination.
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    Keywords: Hypothalamus (Rat) ; Neurosecretion ; Air ions ; Adrenals ; Diuresis
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les noyaux supraoptiques et paraventriculaires de l'hypothalamus du Rat albinos soumis aux ions atmosphériques négatifs pendant 3 à 5 semaines, présentent des signes d'hyperactivité: augmentation significative des volumes nucléaires et nucléolaires, diminution des granules de neurosecrétat dans le cytoplasme des cellules neurosecrétrices et augmentation du matériel neurosecrétoire au long des axones. Corrélativement la post-hypophyse reste riche en matériel coloré par l'hématoxyline chromique. On peut admettre, à la lumière de résultats antérieurs ou non publiés, que cette hyperactivité des neurones hypothalamiques est liée à une hypersécrétion d'ADH (hormone antidiurétique). L'origine de cette réponse antidiurétique semble complexe: l'activation corticosurrénalienne observée simultanément, et classiquement interprétable comme une conséquence de la stimulation hypothalamique, peut aussi, d'après les travaux de nombreux auteurs, en être partiellement la cause. On note corrélativement l'absence d'oligurie, mais au contraire parfois une polyurie modérée; ceci suggère l'idée d'une réponse antidiurétique consécutive à un trouble du métabolisme hydrique induit par d'autres facteurs polyuriques; mais l'ADH déchargée ne semblerait pas capable de contrebalancer complètement cette tendance polyurique. Par ailleurs il a été prouvé que l'aéro-ionisation négative entraine une baisse du taux sanguin de sérotonine, dont les propriétés antidiurétiques sont connues. Ceci permet d'expliquer une composante polyurique favorisant une réponse hypothalamique antidiurétique. L'ensemble des modifications du métabolisme hydro-minéral observées après aéro-ionisation négative (pertes d'eau et de potassium, sodium inchangé) peuvent s'expliquer de façon satisfaisante par l'augmentation des décharges de l'hormone antidiurétique, et des hormones corticosurrénaliennes, contrebalancée partiellement par une chute concomitante du taux de sérotonine.
    Notes: Summary Supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei in the hypothalamus of albino rats submitted to negative air ions for 3 to 5 weeks exhibit various signs of hyperactivity: a significant increase of nuclear and nucleolar volumes, a decrease of the amount of the neurosecretory granules in these neurones while the migration of the neurosecretory material in the axons is enhanced and becomes clearly visible compared with controls. Simultaneously, the neurohypophysis remains well laden with chrome-haematoxylin positive material. Considering these data, and other results, either unpublished or previously obtained by various authors, it appears that the hyperactivity registered in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system may be correlated with a hypersecretion of antidiuretic hormone. The mechanism of this antidiuretic response seems to be rather complex. The adrenocortical stimulation simultaneously detected most often is interpreted as a consequence of a hypothalamic hyperactivity. However, regarding other results, another possibility occurs: that of a role played by the adrenal cortex stimulating the hypothalamus. The feedback between the two hormonal active organs seems to be resetted at a higher level. No antidiuresis could be observed, instead, sometimes a slight increase of diuresis was noted. It appears that the released antidiuretic hormone is unable to counterbalance completely this water metabolism disturbance probably correlated with other factors. Besides, it was established that a treatment with negative air ions induces a significant diminution of the serotonin level of the blood. As serotonin exerts an antidiuretic effect, the antidiuretic response of the hypothalamus would also be enhanced by this decrease of serotonin. All the available data on the modifications of the water and electrolyte metabolism observed after a negative aero-ionization (water and potassium losses, whereas sodium is not clearly affected) may be explained satisfactorily by a simultaneous increase of the discharge of antidiuretic and adrenocortical hormones partly counteracted by a decrease of the serotonin level of the blood.
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    Cell & tissue research 104 (1970), S. 107-115 
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    Keywords: Cephalopoda ; Eledone ; Neurosecretion ; Ultrastructure ; Cardioaccelerator
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    Notes: Summary 1. It is thought that the extensive system of nerves passing into the wall of the anterior vena cava in Eledone cirrosa has a neurosecretory function. Examination of the fine structure of the nerve terminations demonstrated the presence of large numbers of electron-dense granules similar to those described in known neurosecretory tissue. 2. Extracts of the anterior vena cava have a persistent excitatory effect on the isolated Eledone heart. The activity is not attributable to 5-hydroxytryptamine, noradrenaline or adrenaline. The active factor is heat stable. The greatest level of activity was found in the inner layers of the vessel in the region where the nerves pass into the wall of the vessel, i.e. the distribution of the active principle parallels that of the nerve terminations in the vein. 3. The physiological role of the system is discussed.
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    Cell & tissue research 105 (1970), S. 137-154 
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    Keywords: Echinoderms ; Nervous System ; Radial Nerve (Lange) ; Asteriasrubens ; Neurosecretion
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Langes Nerv, ein Teil des hyponeuralen Nervensystems der Asteroiden, wurde licht-, fluoreszenz- und elektronenmikroskopisch untersucht. Er zeigt die typische Gliederung in Kern- und Faserschicht. Die großen unipolaren Ganglienzellen reichen mit kolbenförmigen Ausläufern in das Cölom. Ihre basalen Fortsätze ziehen in die Faserschicht. Cölomepithelzellen liegen den Nervenzellen in unregelmäßigen Abständen als Deckzellen kappenartig auf oder sind als Stützzellen ausgebildet. Deck- und Stützzellen werden als Gliazellen aufgefaßt. Unterhalb der Kernschicht wurden licht- und elektronenmikroskopisch Zellen beobachtet, die für neurosekretorische Elemente gehalten werden. Der Feinbau der erwähnten Zelltypen wird beschrieben und diskutiert. Der histochemische Nachweis auf biogene Amine in Langes Nerv fiel negativ aus.
    Notes: Summary The nerve of Lange, part of the starfish hyponeural nervous system, was investigated with the light-, fluorescence- and electron microscopes in Asterias rubens. It consists of two layers, one containing perikarya, the other fibres. The big nerve cells are unipolar and possess club-shaped processes which extend into the coelom. At their basis, the axon merges into the fibrous layer. Irregularly spaced coelomic epithelial cells cover partly the ganglion cells or constitute supporting elements. Covering and supporting cells are interpreted to represent glia cells. Underneath the perikarya layer, cells have been found by both the light and electron microscopes which are considered to be neurosecretory elements. The fine structure of the various cell types is described and discussed. Histochemical tests for biogenic amines were negative.
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