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Immunocytochemical studies of chicken somatotrophs and somatotroph granules before and after hatching (1993)

Malamed, Sasha ; Gibney, Jean A. ; Cain, Lisa D. ; [et al.]

Springer

Cell & tissue research 272 (1993), S. 369-374

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ISSN: 1432-0878

Keywords: Somatotrophs ; Somatotroph granules ; Growth hormone ; Immunocytochemistry ; Developments ontogenic ; Domestic fowl

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Biology , Medicine

Notes: Abstract Immunocytochemical methods were used to gain information about the embryonic development of chicken somatotrophs before and after hatching. To localize growth hormone, anterior pituitary sections were incubated with growth-hormone antibody, and then an indirect peroxidase method was used for light microscopy and an immunogold method for electron microscopy. The earliest evidence of embryonic somatotrophs was seen at 12 days. At this stage somatotrophs were sparse (0.2% of parenchymal cells) and their granules were pleomorphic with elongated ovoid and lozenge shapes predominating. Few of the immunogold-labeled somatotroph granules of the embryo were spherical until 15 days after fertilization. At 18 days, most of the granules were spherical (their shape in the adult chicken). During the six days between the 15-day-old embryo and the 1-day-old chick, the number of gold particles per granule section approximately doubled suggesting an increase in growth hormone content of the granules. This rise was the result of increases in the size of the granule sections and in the concentration of gold particles in the sections. During the embryonic period of 12–20 days, somatotrophs were not more than 3.6% of the anterior pituitary cell population. During the following two days, between the 20-day-old embryo and the 1-day-old chick, the percentage of somatotrophs in the pituitary parenchymal cell population rose rapidly from 3.6% to 20.7% and then increased slowly to 24.6% during the period of 1–5 days after hatching. Both the sharp percentage rise in somatotrophs (20-day-old embryo to 1-day-old chick) and the rise in growth hormone content of the granules (15-day-old embryo to 1-day-old chick) suggested by gold-particle counts occur close to the time of hatching. These morphological changes may reflect an increased synthesis of growth hormone that is responsible for the rise in plasma growth-hormone concentration that begins about the same time and is especially abrupt two days later (1–3 days after hatching).

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00302741

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The peripheral cytoplasm of adrenocortical cells: Zone-specific responses to ACTH (1994)

Loesser, Kathryn E. ; Cain, Lisa D. ; Malamed, Sasha

New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell

The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 95-102

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ISSN: 0003-276X

Keywords: Steroidogenesis ; Actin ; Adrenal cortex ; Immunoelectron microscopy ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology

Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000

Topics: Medicine

Notes: Background: Differences in the cytoskeletal protein actin in cells from the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata would be of considerable interest because there is persuasive evidence that rat corticosteroids are secreted by mechanisms that are somewhat zone-specific. We have previously shown evidence that actin may be involved in steroid secretion, possibly in connection with changes in adrenocortical microvilli. However, the cells upon which the data were based were not separated according to zone of origin.Methods: Immunogold electron microscopy and morphometric procedures were used to determine whether ACTH-induced changes in the peripheral cytoplasm of isolated adrenocortical cells occur in both zona fasciculata and zona glomerulosa cells.Results: Actin immunoreactivity was more concentrated in the cytoplasm adjacent to the plasma membrane (including the cytoplasm within the microvilli) than it was in the internal cytoplasm in cells from both zones (4-6 times more concentrated in zona glomerulosa cells and 3-6 times more concentrated in zona fasciculata cells). However, the mean aggregate microvillar surface length (microvillar index) of untreated zona fasciculata cells previously reported (Loesser and Malamed, 1987) was 23% greater than that of untreated zona glomerulosa cells. Although ACTH (at a maximal steroidogenic concentration) had no effect on the peripheral cytoplasmic actin concentration of zona glomerulosa cells, there was a 24% increase in the aggregate microvillar length. In contrast, in zona fasciculata cells, ACTH treatment was accompanied by an increase in peripheral cytoplasmic actin concentration of 58-64% and an increase in aggregate microvillar surface length of 40% (previously reported (Loesser and Malamed, 1987)), almost twice that for zona glomerulosa cells.Conclusion: The results suggest that ACTH-induced hormone release from zona fasciculata cells is mediated by increases in peripheral cytoplasmic actin and aggregate microvillar length; in zona glomerulosa cells such changes are small or absent. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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