Cardiac Gap Junctions and Gap Junction‐Associated VesiclesUltrastructural Comparison of In Situ Negative Staining With Conventional Positive Staining
作者:
Li Chen,
Gwendolyn Goings,
Judy Upshaw-Earley,
Ernest Page,
期刊:
Circulation Research
(OVID Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 64,
issue 3
页码: 501-514
ISSN:0009-7330
年代: 1989
出版商: OVID
关键词: gap junctions;heart vesicles;gap junction-associated ultrastructure;myocardial cell connexons;negative staining
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
By comparing in situ negative staining of mammalian heart muscle using La(NO3)3with conventional positive staining by uranium and lead salts, we showed that 1) the membrane area of rat cardiac gap junctions (GJs) at the intercalated disks is threefold to fourfold greater than previously thought; 2) connexon arrays of cardiac GJ are subdivided into microdomains by connexon-free aisles; 3) profiles of GJ-associated vesicles (GJAVs) of plasmalemmal origin (which are present extracellularly and sharply localized at three extracellular sites) are paired to form GJs with each other and with myocyte plasmalemma; 4) some GJAVs contain arrays of assembled connexons; and 5) myocytes contain intracytoplasmic complexes lying within cylindrical or cigar-shaped membranes and consisting of GJs and multiple vesicles apparently dissociating from these GJs.
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