scholarly journals Fluorochrome-coupled lectins reveal distinct cellular domains in human epidermis.

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Virtanen ◽  
A L Kariniemi ◽  
H Holthöfer ◽  
V P Lehto
Keyword(s):  
Endothelial Cells ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Lectin Binding ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Human Epidermis ◽  
Binding Pattern ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Cell Layers

The distribution of saccharide moieties in human interfollicular epidermis was studied with fluorochrome-coupled lectins. In frozen sections Concanavalin A (Con A), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA), Ricinus communis agglutinin I (RCAI), and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) stained intensively both dermis and viable epidermal cell layers, whereas peanut agglutinin (PNA) bound only to living epidermal cell layers. Ulex europaeus agglutinin I (UEAI) bound to dermal endothelial cells and upper cell layers of the epidermis but left the basal cell layer unstained. Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) bound only to basal epidermal cells, whereas both soybean agglutinin (SBA) and Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA) showed strong binding to the spinous and granular cell layers. On routinely processed paraffin sections, a distinctly different staining pattern was seen with many lectins, and to reveal the binding of some lectins a pretreatment with protease was required. All keratin-positive cells in human epidermal cell suspensions, obtained with the suction blister method, bound PNA, whereas only a fraction of the keratinocytes bound either DBA or UEAI. Such a difference in lectin binding pattern was also seen in epidermal cell cultures both immediately after attachment and in organized cell colonies. This suggests that in addition to basal cells, more differentiated epidermal cells from the spinous cell layer are also able to adhere and spread in culture conditions. Gel electrophoretic analysis of the lectin-binding glycoproteins in detergent extracts of metabolically labeled primary keratinocyte cultures revealed that the lectins recognized both distinct and shared glycoproteins. A much different lectin binding pattern was seen in embryonic human skin: fetal epidermis did not show any binding of DBA, whereas UEAI showed diffuse binding to all cell layers but gave a bright staining of dermal endothelial cells. This was in contrast to staining results obtained with a monoclonal cytokeratin antibody, which showed the presence of a distinct basal cell layer in fetal epidermis also. The results indicate that expression of saccharide moieties in human epidermal keratinocytes is related to the stage of cellular differentiation, different cell layers expressing different terminal saccharide moieties. The results also suggest that the emergence of a mature cell surface glycoconjugate pattern in human epidermis is preceded by the acquisition of cell layer-specific, differential keratin expression.

scholarly journals Expression of simple epithelial type cytokeratins in stratified epithelia as detected by immunolocalization and hybridization in situ.

1988 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 1635-1648 ◽  
Author(s):  
F X Bosch ◽  
R E Leube ◽  
T Achtstätter ◽  
R Moll ◽  
W W Franke
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Stratified Epithelium ◽  
Expression Of Genes ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
Stratified Epithelia

Multi-layered ("stratified") epithelia differ from one-layered ("simple") polar epithelia by various architectural and functional properties as well as by their cytoskeletal complements, notably a set of cytokeratins characteristic of stratified tissue. The simple epithelial cytokeratins 8 and 18 have so far not been detected in any stratified epithelium. Using specific monoclonal antibodies we have noted, in several but not all samples of stratified epithelia, including esophagus, tongue, exocervix, and vagina, positive immunocytochemical reactions for cytokeratins 8, 18, and 19 which in some regions were selective for the basal cell layer(s) but extended into suprabasal layers in others. In situ hybridization with different probes (riboprobes, synthetic oligonucleotides) for mRNAs of cytokeratin 8 on esophageal epithelium has shown, in extended regions, relatively strong reactivity for cytokeratin 8 mRNA in the basal cell layer. In contrast, probes to cytokeratin 18 have shown much weaker hybridization which, however, was rather evenly spread over basal and suprabasal strata. These results, which emphasize the importance of in situ hybridization in studies of gene expression in complex tissues, show that the genes encoding simple epithelial cytokeratins can be expressed in stratified epithelia. This suggests that continual expression of genes coding for simple epithelial cytokeratins is compatible with the formation of squamous stratified tissues and can occur, at least in basal cell layers, simultaneously with the synthesis of certain stratification-related cytokeratins. We also emphasize differences of expression and immunoreactivity of these cytokeratins between different samples and in different regions of the same stratified epithelium and discuss the results in relation to changes of cytokeratin expression during fetal development of stratified epithelia, in response to environmental factors and during the formation of squamous cell carcinomas.

scholarly journals Stratification, specialization, and proliferation of primary keratinocyte cultures. Evidence of a functioning in vitro epidermal cell system.

1978 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
C L Marcelo ◽  
Y G Kim ◽  
J L Kaine ◽  
J J Voorhees
Keyword(s):  
Cell Culture ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Primary Cultures ◽  
Mouse Skin ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Neonatal Mouse ◽  
Histological Techniques ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
Epidermal Cell Culture

A population of neonatal mouse keratinocytes (epidermal basal cells) was obtained by gentle, short-term trypsin separation of the epidermal and dermal skin compartments and discontinuous Ficoll gradient purification of the resulting epidermal cells. Over 4--6 wk of culture growth at 32--33 degrees C, the primary cultures formed a complete monolayer that exhibited entire culture stratification and upper cell layer shedding. Transmission and scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that the keratinocyte cultures progressed from one to two cell layers through a series of stratification and specialization phenomena to a six to eight cell layer culture containing structures characteristic of epidermal cells and resembling in vivo epidermal development. The temporal development of primary epidermal cell culture specialization was confirmed by use of two histological techniques which differentially stain the specializing upper cell layers of neonatal mouse skin. No detectable dermal fibroblast co-cultivation was demonstrated by use of the leucine aminopeptidase histochemical technique and routine electron microscope surveillance of the cultures. Incorporation of [3H]thymidine ([3H]Tdr) was greater than 85% into DNA and was inhibited by both 20 micron cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) and low temperature. Autoradiography and 90% inhibition of [3H]Tdr incorporation by 2 mM hydroxyurea indicated that keratinocyte culture DNA synthesis was scheduled (not a repair phenomenon). The primary keratinocytes showed an oscillating pattern of [3H]Tdr incorporation into DNA over the initial 23--25 days of growth. Autoradiography demonstrated that the cultures contained 10--30% proliferative stem cells from days 2-25 of culture. The reproducibility of both the proliferation and specialization patterns of the described primary epidermal cell culture system indicates that these cultures are a useful tool for investigations of functioning epidermal cell homeostatic control mechanisms.

Intermicrotubular actin filaments in the transalar cytoskeletal arrays of Drosophila

1988 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Mogensen ◽  
J.B. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Cell Surface ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Actin Filaments ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Rabbit Muscle ◽  
Drosophila Wing ◽  
Myosin Subfragment ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
Muscle Myosin

Rabbit muscle myosin subfragment S1 decorates 6 nm diameter filaments in Drosophila wing epidermal cells in the arrowhead fashion characteristic of the binding of subfragment S1 to actin filaments. The filaments in question are concentrated between microtubules that are mostly composed of 15 protofilaments and form cell surface-associated transcellular bundles. There are indications that the majority of the actin filaments have the same polarity and that, like the microtubules, they may elongate from sites at the apical surfaces of the cells. The bundles of F actin and microtubules occur in dorsal and ventral epidermal cell layers of a wing blade. They are joined in dorso-ventral pairs by attachment desmosomes. These transalar cytoskeletal arrays may provide an example of a situation where actin filaments operate as stiffeners rather than active generators of force in conjunction with myosin. The arrays probably function as noncontractile pillars to maintain basal cell extensions and keep haemocoelic spaces open in the highly folded and expanding wing blades of late pupae.

Non-cell-autonomous function of the Antirrhinum floral homeotic proteins DEFICIENS and GLOBOSA is exerted by their polar cell-to-cell trafficking

Development ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 3433-3441 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Perbal ◽  
G. Haughn ◽  
H. Saedler ◽  
Z. Schwarz-Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Cell Layer ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Molecular Techniques ◽  
Cell Trafficking ◽  
Mads Box ◽  
Organ Identity ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
Periclinal Chimeras ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Cell Autonomy

In Antirrhinum majus, petal and stamen organ identity is controlled by two MADS-box transcription factors, DEFICIENS and GLOBOSA. Mutations in either of these genes result in the replacement of petals by sepaloid organs and stamens by carpelloid organs. Somatically stable def and glo periclinal chimeras, generated by transposon excision events, were used to study the non-cell-autonomous functions of these two MADS-box proteins. Two morphologically distinct types of chimeras were analysed using genetic, morphological and molecular techniques. Restoration of DEF expression in the L1 cell layer results in the reestablishment of DEF and GLO functions in L1-derived cells only; inner layer cells retain their mutant sepaloid features. Nevertheless, this activity is sufficient to allow the expansion of petal lobes, highlighting the role of DEF in the stimulation of cell proliferation and/or cell shape and elongation when expressed in the L1 layer. Establishment of DEF or GLO expression in L2 and L3 cell layers is accompanied by the recovery of petaloid identity of the epidermal cells but it is insufficient to allow petal lobe expansion. We show by in situ immunolocalisation that the non-cell-autonomy is due to direct trafficking of DEF and GLO proteins from the inner layer to the epidermal cells. At least for DEF, this movement appears to be polar since DEF acts cell-autonomously when expressed in the L1 cell layer. Furthermore, the petaloid revertant sectors observed on second whorl mutant organs and the mutant margins of petals of L2L3 chimeras suggest that DEF and GLO intradermal movement is limited. This restriction may reflect the difference in the regulation of primary plasmodesmata connecting cells from the same layer and secondary plasmodesmata connecting cells from different layers. We propose that control of intradermal trafficking of DEF and GLO could play a role in maintaining of the boundaries of their expression domains.

Histopathological varieties of oral carcinomain situ: Diagnosis aided by immunohistochemistry dealing with the second basal cell layer as the proliferating center of oral mucosal epithelia

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanori Kobayashi ◽  
Satoshi Maruyama ◽  
Jun Cheng ◽  
Hiroko Ida-Yonemochi ◽  
Minoru Yagi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Carcinomain Situ

scholarly journals Basal Cell Adenoma of the Upper Lip from Minor Salivary Gland Origin

2008 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 213-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Maria Minicucci ◽  
Eloisa Bueno Pires de Eloisa ◽  
Silke Anna Thereza Weber ◽  
Maria Aparecida Custodio Domingues ◽  
Daniel Araki Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Minor Salivary Gland ◽  
Salivary Gland Neoplasm ◽  
Basal Cell Adenoma ◽  
Parotid Glands ◽  
Upper Lip ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Cell Adenoma

ABSTRACTBasal cell adenoma is an uncommon benign salivary gland neoplasm, presenting isomorphic basaloid cells witha prominent basal cell layer. Taking into account that basal cell adenomas represent 1% of all salivary gland tumors, being the majority of cases in the parotid glands, the goal of this paper is to report a case of basalcell adenoma of the upper lip arising from minor salivary gland. (Eur J Dent 2008;2:213-216)

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