The mast cells of the mammalian central nervous system
作者:
Mohamed Z.M. Ibrahim,
Munib E. Al-Wirr,
Nadia Bahuth,
期刊:
Cells Tissues Organs
(Karger Available online 1979)
卷期:
Volume 104,
issue 2
页码: 134-154
ISSN:1422-6405
年代: 1979
DOI:10.1159/000145062
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Mast cells;CNS;Neurolipomastocytes;Rat;Ultrastructure
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The brains of young adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were studied with the electron microscope to determine the full ultrastructural picture of two types of perivascular granular cell. One of these, referred to here as the type I cell and described by both light and electron microscopy by several authors, including ourselves, has been reported to be a mast cell (MC) almost identical to MCs outside the CNS. The other, referred to here as the type II cell and described by many authors under almost as many names, was dealt with fully by Ibrahim in several reports and regarded by him as a type of MC. It is felt that the results warrant the conclusions that the type I cells are indeed MCs, while the type II cells are closely allied to the type I cells and probably better adapted to the function they subserve in the CNS of mammals. The similarities between the two cell types probably outnumber the dissimilarities and even these have their counterparts in MCs outside the CNS. The problem of the possible confusion between the type II cells and macrophages, whether reportedly within vessel walls or in the form of modified or special ‘pericytic’ microglia, is discussed. It is concluded that there is no justification for regarding these cells as macrophages. Because of the similarity between the type II cells and MCs, and because of the high lipid content of the type II cells, it is suggested that these elements be called neurolipomastocytes or neurolipomastocytoid ce
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