Nucleolar organizer regions in normal, hyperplastic and neoplastic parathyroid glands

1990 ◽  
Vol 417 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. V. Boquist
Keyword(s):  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Parathyroid Glands ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions

Electron Microscopic investigation of crooke’s change in the pituitaries of patients with hypercorticism

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 848-849
Author(s):  
E. Horvath ◽  
K. Kovacs ◽  
L. Stefaneanu ◽  
N. Losinski
Keyword(s):  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Microscopic Investigation ◽  
Electron Microscopic Investigation ◽  
Ectopic Acth Syndrome ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Human Pituitary ◽  
Ectopic Acth ◽  
Crooke’S Hyalinization

Human pituitary corticotropins have unique morphologic markers: bundles of type-1 filaments, measuring approximately 70 A in width and representing cytokeratin. The extreme ring-like accumulation of type-1 filaments, known as Crooke's hyalinization, signals functional suppression of the corticotropins and occurs in endogenous and exogenous glucocorticoid excess, caused by ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma, glucocorticoid secreting adrenocortical tumor, ectopic ACTH-syndrome and administration of pharmacologic doses of glucocorticoids. Cells of autonomous corticotroph adenomas usually do not show Crooke's hyalin change. A minority of these tumors, however, retains sensitivity to the negative feed-back effect of elevated blood glucocorticoid levels and display typical Crooke’s change.In the present study pituitary corticotropins in various phases of Crooke's hyalinization were investigated in patients with glucocorticoid excess of various origin, applying histology, immunocytochemistry, count of argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR), and transmission electron microscopy.

A role for upstream binding factor in organizing ribosomal gene chromatin

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane E. Wright ◽  
Christine Mais ◽  
José-Luis Prieto ◽  
Brian McStay
Keyword(s):  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Ribosomal Gene ◽  
Rna Polymerase I ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
Binding Factor ◽  
Upstream Binding Factor ◽  
Acrocentric Chromosomes ◽  
Polymerase I ◽  
Secondary Constrictions ◽  
Active Nors

Human ribosomal genes are located in NORs (nucleolar organizer regions) on the short arms of acrocentric chromosomes. During metaphase, previously active NORs appear as prominent chromosomal features termed secondary constrictions, which are achromatic in chromosome banding and positive in silver staining. The architectural RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF (upstream binding factor) binds extensively across the ribosomal gene repeat throughout the cell cycle. Evidence that UBF underpins NOR structure is provided by an examination of cell lines in which large arrays of a heterologous UBF binding sequences are integrated at ectopic sites on human chromosomes. These arrays efficiently recruit UBF even to sites outside the nucleolus, and during metaphase form novel silver-stainable secondary constrictions, termed pseudo-NORs, that are morphologically similar to NORs.

Structure and variability of nucleolar organizer regions in Parodontidae fish

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 564-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Moreira-Filho ◽  
Luiz Antonio Carlos Bertollo ◽  
Pedro Manoel Galetti Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pair ◽  
Constitutive Heterochromatin ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
Mitotic Chromosomes ◽  
Homozygous Condition ◽  
Nucleolar Organizing Regions ◽  
Nucleolar Chromosome

Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) were studied in mitotic chromosomes of four species of fish of family Parodontidae: Parodon tortuosus, Apareiodon affinis, Apareiodon ibitiensis, and Apareiodon piracicabae. All four species exhibited only a single nucleolar chromosome pair in their karyotypes. Intraspecific differences were observed in the size of these chromosomes; however, these were not very clear for A. affinis and A. piracicabae, Apareiodon piracicabae exhibited two clearly visible NORs in each of the nucleolar chromosomes, which was the only configuration practically found in this species. This trait therefore predominates in a homozygous condition in the population investigated. Regions of constitutive heterochromatin adjacent to the two NORs were detected. Possible mechanisms that may have originated the two NORs are discussed.Key words: nucleolar organizing regions, fish.

Increased Nucleolar Organizer Regions in Osteoclast Nuclei of Paget’s Bone Disease

Bone ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Chappard ◽  
N. Retailleau/Gaborit ◽  
R. Filmon ◽  
M. Audran ◽  
M.-F. Baslé
Keyword(s):  
Bone Disease ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
Paget’S Bone Disease ◽  
Paget's Bone Disease

scholarly journals Phase specific Ag-staining of nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) and kinetochores in the Australian ant Myrmecia croslandi.

1992 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 437-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotami T. IMAI ◽  
Hirohisa HIRAI ◽  
Yoko SATTA ◽  
Toshihiko SHIROISHI ◽  
Masaaki YAMADA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions

Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) distribution and behavior in spermatozoa and meiotic cells of the horse (Equus caballus)

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Wnuk ◽  
D.A.F. Villagómez ◽  
M. Bugno-Poniewierska ◽  
P. Tumidajewicz ◽  
T.F. Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Equus Caballus ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
And Behavior

Nucleologenesis in Trypanosoma cruzi

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Nepomuceno-Mejía ◽  
Reyna Lara-Martínez ◽  
Roberto Hernández ◽  
María de Lourdes Segura-Valdez ◽  
Luis F. Jiménez-García
Keyword(s):  
Cell Division ◽  
Trypanosoma Cruzi ◽  
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid ◽  
Organizer Region ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Region ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer ◽  
Nuclear Bodies ◽  
Nucleolar Organizer Regions ◽  
Nucleolar Material

AbstractNucleolar assembly is a cellular event that requires the synthesis and processing of ribosomal RNA, in addition to the participation of pre-nucleolar bodies (PNBs) at the end of mitosis. In mammals and plants, nucleolar biogenesis has been described in detail, but in unicellular eukaryotes it is a poorly understood process. In this study, we used light and electron microscopy cytochemical techniques to investigate the distribution of nucleolar components in the pathway of nucleolus rebuilding during closed cell division in epimastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of American trypanosomiasis. Silver impregnation specific for nucleolar organizer regions and an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid regressive procedure to preferentially stain ribonucleoprotein revealed the conservation and dispersion of nucleolar material throughout the nucleoplasm during cell division. Furthermore, at the end of mitosis, the argyrophilic proteins were concentrated in the nucleolar organizer region. Unexpectedly, accumulation of nucleolar material in the form of PNBs was not visualized. We suggest that formation of the nucleolus in epimastigotes of T. cruzi occurs by a process that does not require the concentration of nucleolar material within intermediate nuclear bodies such as mammalian and plant PNBs.

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