Ultrastructural study of the intracellular behavior of four mineral elements in the lactating mammary gland cells: Study using conventional transmission electron microscopy

2008 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 849-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayadi Ahlem ◽  
Maghraoui Samira ◽  
El Hili Ali ◽  
Galle Pierre ◽  
Tekaya Leila
1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-711
Author(s):  
S. Martínez-Alós ◽  
P. García-Corrales ◽  
B. Cifrian

The frontal glands of Bothromesostoma personatum were examined using transmission electron microscopy. These glands have two types of rhabdoid gland cells; one type produces rhabdites and the other a different type of rod secretion (rhabdoids). The ultrastructure of the latter type is described, together with their origin. Long necks containing the rhabdoids emerge from the rhabdoid gland cell bodies and extend to the anterior end of the animal, where they release the rhabdoids. The rhabdoids are compared with the rhammites of other rhabditophoran species on the basis of their dye affinities, formation mechanism, and ultrastructure.


Author(s):  
Bruce Mackay

The broadest application of transmission electron microscopy (EM) in diagnostic medicine is the identification of tumors that cannot be classified by routine light microscopy. EM is useful in the evaluation of approximately 10% of human neoplasms, but the extent of its contribution varies considerably. It may provide a specific diagnosis that can not be reached by other means, but in contrast, the information obtained from ultrastructural study of some 10% of tumors does not significantly add to that available from light microscopy. Most cases fall somewhere between these two extremes: EM may correct a light microscopic diagnosis, or serve to narrow a differential diagnosis by excluding some of the possibilities considered by light microscopy. It is particularly important to correlate the EM findings with data from light microscopy, clinical examination, and other diagnostic procedures.


Author(s):  
T.W. Smith ◽  
J.A. Roberts ◽  
B.J. Martin

Chronic pyelonephritis is one of the most common diseases of the kidney and accounts for a sizeable number of cases of renal insufficiency in man, however its pathogenesis requires further elucidation. Transmission electron microscopy may serve as a uniquely effective means of observing details of the nature of this disease. The present paper describes preliminary results of an ultrastructural study of chronic pyelonephritis in Macaca arctoides (stumptail monkey).The infection was induced in these experiments in a retrograde fashion by means of a unilateral catheterization of the left ureter whereby an innoculum of 10 cc of broth containing approximately 2 billion E. coli per cc and radio-opaque dye were injected under pressure (mimicing vesico-ureteric reflux).


2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Momar Seck ◽  
Bernard Marchand ◽  
Cheikh Bâ

AbstractUltrastructural study of spermiogenesis and of the spermatozoon of Carmyerius endopapillatus has enabled to describe some characteristics of this digenea. The intercentriolar body situated between the two striated roots and the two centrioles, presents a symmetric organization. Both external bands of this intercentriolar body are made up of a row of granules. During spermiogenesis, a flagellar rotation of 90° is described. The old spermatid does not present external ornamentations. The spermatozoon is characterized, in its anterior region, by the presence of a lateral expansion exhibiting one spinelike body. In C. endopapillatus, external ornamentations are localized only at the level where the lateral expansion appears. The posterior extremity of spermatozoon exhibits a nucleus surrounded by a plasmic membrane lacking microtubules, but presenting a small lateral expansion. This is the first species of Gastrothylacidae family studied by transmission electron microscopy.


Parasitology ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Ouaissi ◽  
A. Haque ◽  
A. Capron

SUMMARYThe in vitro interaction between rat peritoneal macrophages and Dipetalonema viteae microfilariae in the presence of amicrofilaraemic rat immune serum was studied by transmission electron microscopy. The probable sequence of events leading to the killing of D. viteae microfilaria by macrophages is as follows. (a) Rat peritoneal macrophages in the presence of amicrofilaraemic rat immune serum adhere to the parasite surface, (b) the macrophages extend their pseudopodia around the parasite, (c) the ‘lysosome-like’ granules discharge their contents on to the parasite surface, (d) the lytic activity of these products begins at the parasite surface and (e) subsequent breaking of the microfilarial cuticle occurs, exposing the parasite intracellular material.


Zygote ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otilia Zarnescu

Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, spermatozoa were examined by transmission electron microscopy. Their structure has the same characteristic architectural features as sturgeon spermatozoa. Paddlefish spermatozoa are of the primitive type and consist of a rod-shaped head, a midpiece and a long flagellum. The head is about 5.15 mm in length and contains the nucleus and an apical acrosomal complex. Inside the nucleus there are three nuclear channels that begin in the subacrosomal area and have a triple helical arrangement. An nuclear fossa is present centrally, at the posterior end of the nucleus. The midpiece contains a pair of centrioles in a perpendicular arrangement, mitochondria and a narrow cytoplasmic sleeve. The flagellum has a central axoneme with a 9+2 pattern and two lateral projections or fins.


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