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Madkour FA, Abdellatif AM, Osman YA, Kandyel RM. Histological and ultrastructural characterization of the dorso-ventral skin of the juvenile and the adult starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus, Anonymous 1798). BMC Vet Res 2023; 19:221. [PMID: 37875870 PMCID: PMC10598996 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-023-03784-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus, Anonymous, 1798) is a poisonous tetradontidae fish inhabiting the Red sea. The skin constitutes an important defense against any external effects. The study aims to characterize the dorso-ventral skin of the juvenile and the adult starry puffer fish using light and scanning electron microscopies. Twenty specimens of juvenile and adult fresh fishes were used. RESULTS The scanning electron microarchitecture of the skin of the juvenile and adult fish showed delicate irregular-shaped protrusions, and well-defined bricks-like elevations on the dorsal side and interrupted folds as well as irregular-shaped protrusions on the ventral side. In adult fish, the patterned microridges of the superficial and deep epithelial cells (keratinocytes) were larger and well-defined in the dorsal skin than in the ventral side, the contrary was seen in the juvenile fish. The microridges were arranged in a fingerprint or honeycomb patterns. The openings of the mucous cells were more numerous in the dorsal skin in both age stages but more noticeable in adult. Furthermore, the sensory cells were more dominant in the juveniles than the adults. The odontic spines were only seen in adult. Histologically, few taste buds were observed in the epidermis of the dorsal skin surface of the adult fish. Both mucous and club cells were embedded in the epidermis of the juvenile and adult fish with different shapes and sizes. Melanophores were observed at the dorsal skin of both juvenile and adult fishes while fewer numbers were noticed at the ventral surfaces. Several dermal bony plates with different shapes and sizes were demonstrated in the skin of both adult and juvenile fishes. CONCLUSION The structural variations of skin of the juvenile and adult fishes may reflect the various environmental difficulties that they confront.
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- Fatma A Madkour
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, 83523, Egypt.
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Fisheries, Fish Population Dynamic Lab, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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Depasquale JA. Actin Microridges. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2018; 301:2037-2050. [DOI: 10.1002/ar.23965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DePasquale JA. Comparison of microridges in juvenile and adult sunfish,
Lepomis gibbosus. ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/azo.12281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Faccioli CK, Chedid RA, Mori RH, do Amaral AC, Vicentini IBF, Vicentini CA. Ultrastructure of the digestive tract in neotropical carnivorous catfish Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Valenciennes, 1840) (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae). SCANNING 2016; 38:336-343. [PMID: 26445300 DOI: 10.1002/sca.21275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The surface of the digestive tract of Hemisorubim platyrhynchos was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. Morphometric studies by transmission electron microscopy were performed to analysis the intestinal microvilli. H. platyrhynchos is a Neotropical carnivorous freshwater catfish featuring a short digestive tract composed of a short esophagus, saccular stomach, and intestine with four regions: anterior, middle, posterior, and rectal. The esophageal surface is constituted by fingerprint-like microridges that anchor the mucosubstances secreted by goblet cells facilitating the passage of food. Goblet cells present the opening to the esophageal lumen, between the microridges. Club cells are in basal epithelium and they do not present the opening to the lumen. The gastric luminal surface shows polygon-shaped epithelial cells which secrete granules by exocytose to protect the gastric surface. The intestinal luminal surface reveals folds that are thicker in the anterior intestine than in the posterior intestine, increasing the absorptive surface area. The intestinal surface presents the microvilli of enterocytes and the opening of goblet cells. The morphometric analysis showed that the microvilli are longer in the anterior intestine, significantly decreasing towards the posterior intestine. The microvilli surface area significantly is greater in the anterior and middle intestine than in the posterior intestine. Numerous openings of goblet cells were observed in the posterior intestine acting in epithelial protection and lubrication. SCANNING 38:336-343, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Claudemir Kuhn Faccioli
- Department of Biological Sciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
- Institute of Biosciences, Letter and Exact Sciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
- Aquaculture Center of UNESP-CAUNESP, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Via de Acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
- Aquaculture Center of UNESP-CAUNESP, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Via de Acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil
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Ciszak L, Krawczenko A, Polzar B, Mannherz HG, Malicka-Blaszkiewicz M. Carp liver actin: isolation, polymerization and interaction with deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1451:141-52. [PMID: 10446396 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(99)00083-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The aim of this study was to isolate and to characterize actin from the carp liver cytosol and to examine its ability to polymerize and interact with bovine pancreatic DNase I. Carp liver actin was isolated by ion-exchange chromatography, followed by gel filtration and a polymerization/depolymerization cycle or by affinity chromatography using DNase I immobilized to agarose. The purified carp liver actin was a cytoplasmic beta-actin isoform as verified by immunoblotting using isotype specific antibodies. Its isoelectric point (pI) was slightly higher than the pI of rabbit skeletal muscle alpha-actin. Polymerization of purified carp liver actin by 2 mM MgCl(2) or CaCl(2) was only obtained after addition of phalloidin or in the presence of 1 M potassium phosphate. Carp liver actin interacted with DNase I leading to the formation of a stable complex with concomitant inhibition of the DNA degrading activity of DNase I and its ability to polymerize. The estimated binding constant (K(b)) of carp liver actin to DNase I was calculated to be 1.85x10(8) M(-1) which is about 5-fold lower than the affinity of rabbit skeletal muscle alpha-actin to DNase I.
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- L Ciszak
- Department of Cell Pathology, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148, Wroclaw, Poland
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Uehara K, Miyoshi M, Miyoshi S. Function of the cytoskeleton in cells with microridges from the oral epithelium of the carp Cyprinus carpio. Cell Tissue Res 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00354783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Uehara K, Miyoshi M, Miyoshi S. Cytoskeleton in microridges of the oral mucosal epithelium in the carp, Cyprinus carpio. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 1991; 230:164-8. [PMID: 1714256 DOI: 10.1002/ar.1092300203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Microridges produce a characteristic fingerprint-like pattern on the surface of fish oral mucosa. The cytoskeleton in these microridges was examined by immunofluorescence microscopy and transmission electron microscopy after detergent extraction and decoration with myosin subfragment 1. The effect of cytochalasin B on microridges was probed with scanning electron microscopy. Immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that actin filaments were present throughout the periphery of the epithelial cells and were especially localized beneath the free surface of the epithelium. In thin sections treated with Triton X-100, the majority of filaments in the microridges and their bases were found to be actin filaments and a plexus of keratin filaments that underlay the network of actin filaments. A part of the plexus of keratin filaments entered the microridges. After extraction with Triton X-100 and decoration with myosin subfragment 1, decorated actin filaments were found in the microridge cores, connected to the keratin filaments. The keratin filaments aggregated in the pattern of microridges and a few of them protruded into the microridges. Treatment with cytochalasin B caused microridges to disappear or to become thinner and lower or to change short or microvillus-like microridges. When most microridges disappeared, the surface of the superficial cells was prominently swollen, but the cell boundaries were fastened, and the microridges in the periphery were preserved. On the basis of these observations, the possible roles of actin and keratin filaments in the maintenance and the formation of microridges are discussed.
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- K Uehara
- First Department of Oral Anatomy, Fukuoka Dental College, Japan
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