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The structure of intercellular tight junctions of rat airway submucosal glands was examined by freeze fracture techniques and their permeability assessed by the use of colloidal lanthanum. The submucosal glands were organized into three distinct regions: a) serous tubules and b) mucous tubules lined, respectively, by serous and mucous cells, and c) ducts lined by cuboidal epithelial cells, containing few secretory granules, and some ciliated cells. The mean number of parallel fibrils constituting the tight junctions between serous cells was 3.6 +/- 0.4, which was significantly smaller than those between any of the other cell types. Colloidal lanthanum permeated the tight junctions between serous cells up to the level of the acinar lumen. There was a progressive increase in the mean number of parallel fibrils of tight junctions between mucous (5.1 +/- 0.6), ductal (5.4 +/- 0.5), and ciliated cells (8.5 +/- 0.7); none of these junctions was permeated by colloidal lanthanum. These results imply that tight junctions between serous cells are more permeable to small water-soluble solutes than those present in the more proximal portions of the gland. Gap junctions were observed between serous cells and between mucous cells, suggesting that these secretory cells may be electotronically and metabolically coupled.
Anat Rec 1984 Nov
PMID:Intercellular junctions in upper airway submucosal glands of the rat: a tracer and freeze fracture study. 608 28

In this study we investigated the effects of chronic beta adrenoreceptor blockade with atenolol on cellular and subcellular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Atenolol was injected subcutaneously (20 mg/kg) twice daily commencing in four-week-old rats. The treated animals (SHR-A) were compared to their nontreated controls and normotensive, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) controls at the age of 16 weeks. A group of atenolol-treated WKY was also studied. Chronic drug treatment was effective in attenuating the rise in systolic blood pressure characteristic of SHR, but did not normalize the values to those of WKY. Cardiac hypertrophy, characteristic of SHR, was modified by drug treatment as evidenced by left ventricular weights as well as myocardial cell size. The cells from the subendocardium underwent selective hypertrophy in SHR which was attenuated by about 50% after atenolol treatment. Stereological analysis of electron micrographs showed that while relative mitochondrial volume was not affected by treatment, relative myofibrillar volume (%) decreased in both subepicardium (SHR = 63.28 +/- 1.25; SHR-A = 56.72 +/- 1.37) and subendocardium (SHR = 66.53 +/- 1.27; SHR-A = 58.30 +/- 1.51). This change raised the mitochondrial/myofibrillar volume ratio, which is characteristically low in SHR compared to WKY. Sarcoplasm, which included all cell constituents except mitochondria, increased with atenolol treatment, but water concentration remained unchanged. The data suggest that attenuation of hypertrophy in SHR after beta blockade is associated with selective effects on the myocardial cell involving primarily the myofibrillar cell compartment.
Anat Rec 1983 Dec
PMID:The effects of beta adrenoceptor blockade with atenolol on myocardial cellular and subcellular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats. 614 65

Newly formed rat incisor enamel was fixed aqueously by perfusion with glutaraldehyde and anhydrously by immersion in ethylene glycol. Ultrathin sections were studied using transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction. Aqueously processed enamel was shown to lose its mineral content when sectioned on distilled water. This mineral loss was minimized by limiting the exposure of sections to the water. In such preparations, enamel crystallites were seen by virtue of their intrinsic electron density only. Selected area electron diffraction provided corroborative evidence for the presence or absence of crystallites in the sections. Observations on mineralized sections and on stained mineralized and distilled-water-demineralized sections revealed organic material apparently in the same location as the crystallites. Anhydrously processed enamel which was sectioned on ethylene glycol showed a similar appearance of the crystallites. This appearance was not obviously altered after staining despite evidence that organelles in the ameloblasts were stained. In view of the observations that both methods yielded similar crystallite morphology, it was concluded that aqueous techniques can be used to study the relationship between organic and inorganic components. However, valid description of crystallites in such preparations requires minimal exposure of ultrathin sections to water.
Anat Rec 1982 Feb
PMID:Electron microscopic studies on the potential loss of crystallites from routinely processed sections of young enamel in the rat incisor. 617 49

Plastinated hearts are natural specimens, preserved in a firm or flexible state, which thus can be grasped in the hand. They are fixed in a dilated state. Their tissue water and lipids are replaced by polymerized synthetic resins or elastomers. The final specimens show doubly injected coronary vessels, opened atria and ventricles, thus exhibiting all finer external and internal details. The procedure described consists of the removal of the heart; intermediate storage facilities; dilatation with water under hydrostatic pressure; color injection of the coronary vessels; fixation; dehydration in acetone under hydrostatic pressure; forced impregnation in a vacuum chamber; and hardening with aftercare. Technical variations and pitfalls are discussed, as well as the required equipment.
Anat Rec 1982 Nov
PMID:The technique of heart plastination. 618 63

The effects of chronic ethanol ingestion on an organelle known to be involved in protein synthesis were studied cytologically in nerve cells of the adult hamster. Twenty-six animals were administered standard laboratory chow and either tap water (controls) or a 15% ethanol solution (experimentals) for a period of 7 weeks. Brains were perfusion-fixed, sectioned transversely, and stained with buffered thionin for microscopic analysis. Reported here are changes in an RNA-rich intranucleolar body (INB) seen in facial motor neurons and cerebellar Purkinje cells of the golden hamster. After chronic ethanol ingestion, the size and frequency of the INB increased significantly in both cell populations. Theoretical considerations are discussed concerning the correlation between this apparent storing of nucleolar RNA/RNP and the biochemical evidence of other investigators for ethanol-induced alterations in RNA/protein synthesis and utilization in neurons.
Anat Rec 1983 Aug
PMID:Effect of ethanol on nucleolar structure: a cytological indication of change in RNA/protein synthesis. 619 18

Enamel crystallites are electron opaque without osmium or heavy metal staining and give a crystalline electron diffraction pattern. Since the opacity and diffraction pattern are abolished from ultrathin sections of young enamel by floating on distilled water (Bishop and Warshawsky, 1982), the possibility that aqueous staining may also remove crystallites was tested. In addition, the effect of osmium postfixation on crystallite structure was examined. Rat incisors fixed by perfusion with a mixture of aldehydes were either nonosmicated or osmicated prior to dehydration. Incisor segments in the region of inner enamel secretion were embedded in the same Epon block to ensure reliable comparison. Osmicated enamel was more intensely stained with toluidine blue and more electron opaque than nonosmicated enamel. No other structural differences were seen. However, crystallites in osmicated enamel were more resistant to grid demineralization and electron beam damage. Routine staining was done by floating sections on solutions of uranyl acetate and lead citrate; sections were also floated on similar solutions from which the heavy metals were omitted. These solutions removed the electron opaque crystallites from the youngest enamel. Stained sections showed electron opaque crystallite-like structures similar to unstained enamel. When sections that were extracted by the solutions from which the metals were omitted were restained, they appeared identical to routinely stained enamel. It was concluded that staining of young enamel removes the crystallites and reveals only the organic matrix.
Anat Rec 1983 Sep
PMID:The effect of osmium postfixation and uranyl and lead staining on the ultrastructure of young enamel in the rat incisor. 619 43

A technique was developed for observing the ovaries of the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) restrained in a standing position using a laparoscope (10 mm diameter, 600 mm length) inserted in the right paralumbar fossa after sedation with xylazine and local infiltration anaesthesia. Insufflation of the abdominal cavity with carbon dioxide was necessary to pass the laparoscope along the body wall to the pelvic inlet where both ovaries could be examined in detail with a manipulating probe inserted ipsilaterally. Twenty-one buffaloes were subjected to 50 laparoscopic examinations without infections or adverse reactions. Laparoscopy was a simple, reliable and rapid technique for repeated observation of the ovaries in the buffalo.
Vet Rec 1982 Jul 10
PMID:A laparoscopic technique for in vivo observation of ovaries in the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). 621 87

A glucose glycine electrolyte solution (GGES) was investigated to determine its suitability for oral rehydration in diarrhoea in pigs. Piglets with diarrhoea following experimental infection with eneteropathogenic Escherichia coli were given access in cube drinkers to either GGES or water. The mortality in the GGES group (11.6 per cent) was significantly (P less than 0.05) less than in the controls (24.0 per cent), and weight gain in severely diarrhoeic piglets was greater in the GGES group. Gnotobiotic piglets were challenged with pig rotavirus and either given access to GGES or milk. The GGES was either in restricted volume or ad lib. Restricted access to GGES prevented much of the weight loss due to the diarrhoea and ad lib access to GGES allowed relatively uninterrupted weight gain in comparison with controls. In naturally occurring cases of diarrhoea on farms, access to GGES reduced mortality to weaning from 19.7 per cent to 7.2 per cent (P less than 0.05). Weight gain per day was also greater in piglets which scoured for three days or more, indicating the rehydrating effect in reducing net fluid loss. Thus GGES treatment was of value in treatment e&ects of diarrhoea due to either E. coli or rotavirus.
Vet Rec 1980 Jan 26
PMID:Oral fluid replacement by a glucose glycine electrolyte formulation in E coli and rotavirus diarrhoea in pigs. 624 14

The rostral pars distalis of the anterior pituitary gland of the marine alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, during its annual spawning run to fresh water was examined histologically. The rostral pars distalis is composed of many interconnecting follicles of various sizes. Contrary to earlier reports, the follicular epithelium contains not only prolactin (PRL) cells but corticotropic (ACTH) cell and thyrotropic (TSH) cells (in addition to two nonendocrine cell types). Basally all three endocrine cell types make direct contact with the basement membrane which separates the follicles from the neurohypophysial processes. Apically, however, only the prolactin cells, the largest of the three, protrude into the follicular lumen by means of the small ciliated apical protruberance. All other cellular elements are sealed from the follicular lumen by a layer of covering cells which have properties of transitional epithelial cells. In the follicular epithelium, the slender TSH cells are intercalated between the large conspicuous prolactin cells. The ACTH cells, the smallest of the three endocrine cells, lie in deep invaginations in the basal regions of the individual PRL cells in such a way that on cursory examination they can be mistaken for the nuclei of the latter. Only a small portion of the cellular surface of the ACTH cell escapes the enveloping prolactin cell to make contact with the basement membrane of the follicle. In teleosts, prolactin, ACTH, and TSH have all been implicated in the regulation of hydromineral metabolism and reproductive development. The intimate spatial relation between the three endocrine cells in the alewife rostral pars distalis thus raises the possibility of some functional interactions at the adenohypophysial level, perhaps as an adaptation of this anadromous teleost whose reproductive development and behavior is associated with large changes in ambient salinity. The functional significance of the follicular lumen is discussed together with possible sensory functions of the PRL cells.
Anat Rec 1981 Mar
PMID:Cellular composition of the rostral pars distalis of the anterior pituitary gland of the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, during the spawning run. 626 81

The survival of Streptococcus suis type 2 was assessed in experimentally inoculated faeces and dust stored at 0, 9 and 22 to 25 degrees C. The organism survived in faeces for 104 days at 0 degrees C, up to 10 days at 9 degrees C and up to eight days at 22 to 25 degrees C. It survived in dust for up to 54 days at 0 degrees C and up to 25 days at 9 degrees C but could not be isolated from dust stored at room temperature for 24 hours. The organism survived at 4 degrees C in nutrient medium for up to nine months but in distilled water for only one to two weeks. At 50 degrees C it survived in water or broth for up to two hours but at 60 degrees C it only survived for 10 minutes. The organism was rapidly inactivated by disinfectants and cleansers, commonly used on farms and in laboratories, at concentrations less than those recommended for use by the manufacturers.
Vet Rec 1984 Jun 16
PMID:Factors affecting the survival of Streptococcus suis type 2. 646 22


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