Phagosome-lysosome interactions related to erythrophagocytosis in Kupffer cells of fetal rat liver

1983 ◽  
Vol 231 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
RichardM. Pino ◽  
PatrickW. Bankston
Author(s):  
Richard M. Pino

This study confirms the presence of endogenous peroxidase in fetal Kupffer cells. In adult hepatic sinusoids Kupffer cells are peroxidase positive; endothelial cells are not.1 The fetal rat liver sinusoidal endothelium during development changes from a lining similar to that found in adult bone marrow to an adult liver type.2 Cells that resemble adult Kupffer cells are evident at 13 days gestation and can endocytize carbon beginning at 14 days.Sixteen day Wistar rat fetuses were exposed in utero after ether anesthesia of their mothers. Colloidal carbon (Pelikan, Gunther Wagner) diluted 1:1 with double strength Tyrode1s solution, or as a control, single strength Tyrode's solution without carbon, was injected (0.01-0,03ml) into the fetal umbilical veins with a 30 gauge needle.2 After allowing one minute for the injected material to circulate, the fetuses were decapitated and the livers were removed and diced into small pieces.


1979 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 643-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M Pino ◽  
P W Bankston

Endogenous peroxidase is the cytochemical marker used to identify Kupffer cells in the adult liver. In this study, we show by ultrastructural cytochemistry that Kupffer cells of the fetal rat liver are endogenous peroxidase positive. The reaction product is localized in the endoplasmic reticulum including the perinuclear cisternae and in a few lysosome-like dense bodies. Serial sections of Golgi regions suggest that GERL and not the Golgi stacks, is peroxidase positive. As in the adult liver, peroxidase is not localized in endothelial cells. Kupffer cells do not appear to transform from endothelial or extravascular developing monocytic cells and are present prior to bone marrow formation. The relevance of these observations with respect to the possible origin of the Kupffer cell is discussed.


Author(s):  
F. G. Zaki

Fetal and neonatal liver injury induced by agents circulating in maternal plasma, even though well recognized, its morphological manifestations are not yet established. As part of our studies of fetal and neonatal liver injury induced by maternal nutritional disorders, metabolic impairment and toxic agents, the effects of two anti-inflammatory steroids have been recently inves tigated.Triamcinolone and methyl prednisolone were injected each in a group of rats during pregnancy at a-dosage level of 2 mgm three times a week. Fetal liver was studied at 18 days of gestation. Litter size and weight markedly decreased than those of control rats. Stillbirths and resorption were of higher incidence in the triamcinolone group than in those given the prednisolone.


In Vitro ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 579-586
Author(s):  
Carl Monder ◽  
Alena Hatle Coufalik

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