Quantitative Aspects of Growth Hormone Cell Maturation in the Normal and Little Mutant Mouse
作者:
Doris B. Wilson,
Darlene P. Wyatt,
Richard M. Gadler,
Carol A. Baker,
期刊:
Cells Tissues Organs
(Karger Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 131,
issue 2
页码: 150-155
ISSN:1422-6405
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1159/000146504
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Little mouse;Morphometry;Growth hormone cells;Immunocytochemistry
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Growth hormone (GH) cells were analyzed by means of ultrastructural morphometry in the pars distalis of pituitary glands from male adult and immature normal (C57BL) and homozygous little (lit/lit) mutant mice. Thin sections were exposed to anti-GH serum and processed immunocytochemically with the colloidal-gold technique. In the pars distalis of adult lit/lit mice, the mean volume density of GH cells/total tissue was 24% of the normal value, granules/GH cells was 58% of normal, and granules/total tissue was only 12% of normal. Deficits in all of these parameters likewise occurred in immature glands, though to a lesser extent than in the adults.The results indicate that the GH deficiency in this mutant reflects quantitative deficits in both the secretory granule content of GH cells, as well as the GH cell content of the gland, with the latter being the more severely affected.
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