Histogenesis of the yolk sac in Malathion-treated chick embryos

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 2325-2330 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Acorn ◽  
M. A. Gibson

Chick embryos were given a teratogenic dose of Malathion at the 5-day incubation stage and the effects of this treatment on the histogenesis and histochemistry of the yolk sac were studied. The Malathion caused a decrease in the amount of hemopoietic tissue. Also, the endodermal cells had decreased glycogen and lipid storage, decreased glycoprotein and acid mucopolysaccharide staining intensities, and decreased acid phosphatase activity. These observations suggest an interference with carbohydrate and lipid uptake and storage by the yolk sac.

1983 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
W.K. Fitt ◽  
R.K. Trench

The ingestion and fate of four types of particles by endodermal cells of the scyphistomae of Cassiopeia xamachana were investigated by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Ferritin was endocytosed pinocytotically by invagination of the plasmalemma. These small pinocytotic vesicles fuse with other similar vesicles to form larger ferritin-containing vacuoles, which eventually fuse with lysosomes. Such secondary lysosomes exhibit acid phosphatase activity. The co-occurrence of acid phosphatase activity and ferritin in secondary lysosomes achieved maximum frequency within 2 h of uptake of ferritin and was evident for at least 4 h following uptake. Artemia particles, live freshly isolated symbiotic algae (Symbiodinium microadriaticum), and heat-killed S. microadriaticum are phagocytosed by endodermal cells. Ferritin-labelled lysosomes fused with food vacuoles containing particles of Artemia. Vacuoles containing heat-killed S. microadriaticum also showed evidence of phago-lysosome fusion. S. microadriaticum in situ (i.e. in host cells) after 3 days exposure to the photosynthetic inhibitor, 3-(3-4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea, appeared degenerate, and were found in loose-fitting host vacuoles, many in mid and apical portions of the host cell. More than 70% of these vacuoles with moribund algae contained the ferritin label, indicating that lysosome fusion had occurred. In contrast, live S. microadriaticum in control animals were almost always found at the base of the host cell in individual tight-fitting vacuoles with no evidence of lysosome fusion. Live S. microadriaticum apparently escape host digestion by prohibiting the fusion of lysosomes with the vacuole in which they reside. Vacuoles containing defunct algal symbionts, in contrast, were subject to lysosomal attack.


Author(s):  
O. T. Minick ◽  
E. Orfei ◽  
F. Volini ◽  
G. Kent

Hemolytic anemias were produced in rats by administering phenylhydrazine or anti-erythrocytic (rooster) serum, the latter having agglutinin and hemolysin titers exceeding 1:1000.Following administration of phenylhydrazine, the erythrocytes undergo oxidative damage and are removed from the circulation by the cells of the reticulo-endothelial system, predominantly by the spleen. With increasing dosage or if animals are splenectomized, the Kupffer cells become an important site of sequestration and are greatly hypertrophied. Whole red cells are the most common type engulfed; they are broken down in digestive vacuoles, as shown by the presence of acid phosphatase activity (Fig. 1). Heinz body material and membranes persist longer than native hemoglobin. With larger doses of phenylhydrazine, erythrocytes undergo intravascular fragmentation, and the particles phagocytized are now mainly red cell fragments of varying sizes (Fig. 2).


2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Salles de Souza Malaspina ◽  
Célio Xavier dos Santos ◽  
Ana Paula Campanelli ◽  
Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo ◽  
Mari Cleide Sogayar ◽  
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