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Immunocytochemical studies on the localization of pancreatic-type phospholipase A2 in rat stomach and pancreas, with special reference to the stomach cells

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Using a specific polyclonal antibody raised against rat pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2), we investigated the localization of the enzyme in the rat pancreas and stomach by light and electron microscopy. In the pancreas, the enzyme was localized in the acinar cells, whereas the pancreatic islets showed no immunoreaction. In the stomach, the PLA2 reactive with the anti-pancreatic PLA2 antibody was distributed exclusively in the gastric glands, but not in the gastric pits or the pyloric glands. On the section of the stomach subjected to immuno- and PAS-staining, immunopositive cells were not the PAS-positive cells located in the gastric pit and the neck region of the gastric gland.

Immunopositive cells were present from the neck to the bottom of the gastric gland. Immunoelectron microscopic observation revealed that the immunogold-labeled cell had a highly-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum in the basal cytoplasm and characteristic zymogen granules in the apical cytoplasm. Taking into account the cell position in the gastric gland, the immunopositive cell could therefore be identified as a chief cell. Since no double stainability with PLA2 and PAS was observed in the same cell, it is suggested that PLA2 could be used cytochemically as a marker enzyme of the chief cell in the gastric gland at the light-microscopic level. From the immunoelectron microscopic findings, we believe that the PLA2 in the stomach is released into the lumen of the stomach by exocytosis and could function as a digestive enzyme in the alimentary tract, like the PLA2 secreted from the pancreas. Other possible roles of the PLA2 in the stomach are discussed.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Sapporo Medical College, S1 W17, Chuo-ku, 060, Sapporo, Japan

    H. Tatsumi

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Physiological Chemistry, Osaka University Medical School, 4-3-57 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, 530, Osaka, Japan

    H. Tojo, T. Ono & M. Okamoto

  3. Department of Anatomy, Osaka University Medical School, 4-3-57 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, 530, Osaka, Japan

    T. Senda & H. Fujita

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Tatsumi, H., Tojo, H., Senda, T. et al. Immunocytochemical studies on the localization of pancreatic-type phospholipase A2 in rat stomach and pancreas, with special reference to the stomach cells. Histochemistry 94, 135–140 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02440179

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