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Histophysical and histochemical investigations on muscle arterioles in hypertensive arteriolosclerosis; an interference microscopical, polarization optical and histophotometrical study

In 50 formol fixed biopsies from the m. quadriceps femoris normal and hypertensive arteriolosclerotic arterioles were characterized by quantitative histophysical and histochemical methods. The interference microscopical measurements showed a real increase of dry mass concentration in the pathologically changed vessels. Additional histophotometrical results are interpreted as an increase of proteins with higher isoelectric point (globulins, actomyosin). An augmentation of actomyosin is compatible with the medial hyperplasia demonstrated histologically. Likewise a positive correlation was found between the fibrin incorporation proved histochemically and the quantitatively evaluated protein reaction with Fast green; Glycosaminglycans do not carry weight quantitatively. The polarization optical measurements yielded an alteration of the submicroscopical structure in arteriolosclerosis. It consists in a diminution of the submicroscopical volum of gaps and in a diminished orientated dye binding of Congo red. Thereby the pathogenesis of hypertensive arteriolosclerosis of skeleton muscle is above all characterized by an increase of heterogeneous proteins (blood plasma proteins, actomyosin) in the arteriolar wall, leading to a diminution of the submicroscopical volume of gaps and to an elevation of the dry mass concentration.