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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Immunomax technique In situ hybridisation PCR Cytomegalovirus Congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. The present study focuses on the immunomax technique in association with the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (ABC) technique and a non-isotopic variation of in situ hybridisation (ISH) for optimal microscopical detection of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). The studies were performed on an archival paraffin material originating from five children deceased due to intrauterine infection. The results of immunocytochemical and hybridocytochemical studies, with or without amplification using biotinylated tyramine, were compared with the routine histopathological results and results obtained using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Early antigen (EA)-HCMV was demonstrated in approximately twice as many cells as detected in the routine staining and also in cells that seemed morphologically intact. The hybridocytochemical studies confirmed the presence of HCMV DNA in cells that were positive in the immunocytochemical tests and, in addition (using the ISH-immunomax technique), in cell nuclei of intact myocardial myocytes. In general, fewer cells manifested the presence of HCMV mRNA than the presence of HCMV DNA. The immunomax technique was found to be more sensitive than the techniques of classical immunocytochemistry or of ISH. The former technique permitted the documentation of a higher number of HCMV replication sites than could be detected using the latter techniques. However, the clinical course of HCMV infection or the cause of death of the children was not directly related to the intensity of HCMV expression in tissues.
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    Child's nervous system 3 (1987), S. 74-80 
    ISSN: 1433-0350
    Keywords: Medulloblastoma ; GFAP-positivity ; Electron microscopy ; Postoperative follow-up
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Eighty-four cases of medulloblastoma were examined immunohistochemically and 12 by electron microscopy to assess differentiation in these tumors. Based upon the largest series of medulloblastoma studied to date, we demonstrated glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) positivity, in 25% (21/84) of these tumors showing glial differentiation. GFAP-positive cells were seen more frequently in the desmoplastic variant of medulloblastoma (7/10). Under electron microscopy, the major part of the 12 tumors studied appeared primitive and undifferentiated. In 7 cases, groups of cells were found with primitive neuronal and/or glial features. GFAP positivity was confirmed at light microscopy level in all cases where cells showed glial differentiation in the form of glial-like filaments in cytoplasma. However, a follow-up questionnaire study of those patients who had received only surgical treatment revealed no difference in mean survival time between GFAP-positive and GFAP-negative medulloblastoma.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0003-276X
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Mouse blastocysts were grown in vitro and the ultrastructure of resulting egg cylinders was compared with the ultrastructure of egg cylinders isolated from uterus. Egg cylinders grown in vitro had two or three germ layers and were attached to the bottom of the dish through the layer of trophoblastic cells. The entoderm was composed of two cell types intermixed haphazardly: (1) One type had numerous microvilli on the free surface and a large number of dense bodies, autophagic vacuoles, big and small vacuoles and myelin figures in the cytoplasm. (2) The other type had rich, rough endoplasmic reticulum with wide cisternae. The cisternae were filled with fine, granular material similar to that found as a thick membrane separating the entodermal layer from the rest of the embryo. The first type of cell was ultrastructurally similar to cells of the visceral entoderm of egg cylinders isolated from uterus and the second type was similar to cells of the parietal entoderm. The thick basement membrane observed in embryos grown in vitro was similar to Reichert's membrane. Parietal entoderm and Reichert's membrane were never found as separate structures in embryos grown in vitro. It is probable that the entodermal cells in blastocysts differentiate in vitro into both parietal and visceral entodermal cells within the same layer. Mesodermal and ectodermal cells of vitral embryos were similar to such cells in the egg cylinders isolated from the uterus. The cytoplasm was filled with free ribosomes in the form of polysomes and also contained a few profiles of endoplasmic reticulum, well developed mitochondria and Golgi apparatus. Intercellular spaces between mesodermal cells were large and the cells were not attached to one another. Ectodermal cells were tightly packed and inter-connected with numerous desmosomes. The ultrastructure of egg cylinders in vitro and in vivo was similar. Observed differences might be caused by culture conditions and some of them probably represented the changing pattern of differentiation in vitro.
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