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Abd El Raouf HHH, Galhom RA, Ali MHM, Nasr El-Din WA. Harderian gland-derived stem cells as a cytotherapy in a guinea pig model of carboplatin-induced hearing loss. J Chem Neuroanat 2019; 98:139-152. [PMID: 31047945 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Stem cells therapy of hearing loss is a challenging field due to lacking self-regenerative capacity of cochlea. Harderian gland of guinea pigs was thought to harbour a unique type of progenitors which could restore the damaged cochlear tissues. THE AIM of this study was to isolate Harderian gland derived stem cells (HG-SCs) and investigate their efficacy in restoring the damaged cochlear tissue in carboplatin-induced hearing loss. METHODOLOGY Sixty female and 10 male pigmented guinea pigs were used; the male animals were HG-SCs donors, while the females were assigned into 3 groups; control, hearing loss (HL) and HG-SC-treated groups. Auditory reflexes were assessed throughout the study. The animals were euthanized 35 days after HG-SCs transplantation, the cochleae were extracted and processed for assessment by light microscope and scanning electron microscope. Morphometric assessment of stria vascularis thickness, hair cells and spiral ganglia neuronal number and optical density of TLR4 expression were done. RESULTS The isolated HG-SCs had the same morphological and phenotypical character as mesenchymal stem cells. HL group revealed destruction of organ of Corti, stria vascularis and spiral ganglion with decreased morphometric parameters. Restoration of both cochlear structure and function was observed in HG-SC-treated group along with a significant increase in IHCs, OHCs numbers, stria vascularis thickness and spiral ganglionic cell count to be close to the values of control group. CONCLUSION The isolated HG-SCs were proved to restore structure and function of cochlea in guinea pig model of hearing loss.
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- Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
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- Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
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- Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt; Anatomy Department, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Bek S, Neess D, Dixen K, Bloksgaard M, Marcher AB, Chemnitz J, Færgeman NJ, Mandrup S. Compromised epidermal barrier stimulates Harderian gland activity and hypertrophy in ACBP-/- mice. J Lipid Res 2015; 56:1738-46. [PMID: 26142722 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m060780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP) is a small, ubiquitously expressed intracellular protein that binds C14-C22 acyl-CoA esters with very high affinity and specificity. We have recently shown that targeted disruption of the Acbp gene leads to a compromised epidermal barrier and that this causes delayed adaptation to weaning, including the induction of the hepatic lipogenic and cholesterogenic gene programs. Here we show that ACBP is highly expressed in the Harderian gland, a gland that is located behind the eyeball of rodents and involved in the production of fur lipids and lipids used for lubrication of the eye lid. We show that disruption of the Acbp gene leads to a significant enlargement of this gland with hypertrophy of the acinar cells and increased de novo synthesis of monoalkyl diacylglycerol, the main lipid species produced by the gland. Mice with conditional targeting of the Acbp gene in the epidermis recapitulate this phenotype, whereas generation of an artificial epidermal barrier during gland development reverses the phenotype. Our findings indicate that the Harderian gland is activated by the compromised epidermal barrier as an adaptive and protective mechanism to overcome the barrier defect.
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- Signe Bek
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Hussein OA, Elgamal DA, Elgayar SAM. Structure of the secretory cells of male and female adult guinea pigs Harderian gland. Tissue Cell 2015; 47:323-35. [PMID: 25960413 DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2015.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2015] [Revised: 03/28/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The main objective of this study was to investigate the structure of the Harderian gland (HG) in male and female guinea pigs. A total number of sixteen animals of 4 months age were divided according to sex into two groups; eight animals each. Unfixed glands were weighed and their length and width were measured. Specimens from fixed glands were processed and examined using light, transmission electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry for the detection of the presence of chromogranin A (CgA). The gland consisted of a well-developed duct system which included both intra and extra parenchymal ducts and secretory end pieces lined by many types of cells of variable morphological features and modes of secretion. However, the holocrine mode of secretion was rare as mitotic figures were occasionally present. The interstitial cells included fibroblasts and immune cells (mast cells, lymphocyte, plasma cells and macrophages). The secretion produced by the gland included lipid, protein, neutral mucin and CgA which may be a newly identified constituent of biologically potent proteins stored in the cells of the guinea pig HG. Neutral mucin and CgA may function in photoprotection. The gland revealed sexual dimorphism in mast cells and blood capillaries number and chromogranin secretory activity.
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- Ola A Hussein
- Histology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt
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- Histology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt
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- Histology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
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Su YX, Benedek GA, Sieg P, Liao GQ, Dendorfer A, Meller B, Rades D, Klinger M, Hakim SG. Radioprotective effect of lidocaine on neurotransmitter agonist-induced secretion in irradiated salivary glands. PLoS One 2013; 8:e60256. [PMID: 23555936 PMCID: PMC3612107 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2012] [Accepted: 02/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Background Previously we verified the radioprotective effect of lidocaine on the function and ultrastructure of salivary glands in rabbits. However, the underlying mechanism of lidocaine's radioprotective effect is unknown. We hypothesized that lidocaine, as a membrane stabilization agent, has a protective effect on intracellular neuroreceptor-mediated signaling and hence can help preserve the secretory function of salivary glands during radiotherapy. Methods and Materials Rabbits were irradiated with or without pretreatment with lidocaine before receiving fractionated radiation to a total dose of 35 Gy. Sialoscintigraphy and saliva total protein assay were performed before radiation and 1 week after the last radiation fraction. Isolated salivary gland acini were stimulated with either carbachol or adrenaline. Ca2+ influx in response to the stimulation with these agonists was measured using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Results The uptake of activity and the excretion fraction of the parotid glands were significantly reduced after radiation, but lidocaine had a protective effect. Saliva total protein concentration was not altered after radiation. For isolated acini, Ca2+ influx in response to stimulation with carbachol, but not adrenaline, was impaired after irradiation; lidocaine pretreatment attenuated this effect. Conclusions Lidocaine has a radioprotective effect on the capacity of muscarinic agonist-induced water secretion in irradiated salivary glands.
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- Yu-xiong Su
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.
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Yan J, Akutsu H, Satoh Y. The morphological and functional observation of the gap junction proteins in the oviduct epithelia in young and adult hamsters. Okajimas Folia Anat Jpn 2012; 88:57-64. [PMID: 22184867 DOI: 10.2535/ofaj.88.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The histological morphology of oviduct epithelia have been described well, however, the expression pattern of the gap junction proteins in the cells, and the function related with the proteins, such as [Ca2+]i dynamics pattern of living oviduct epithelia at different ages have not been clarified. We used immunohistochemistry to compare the expression pattern of gap junction proteins in the cells of the young and adult groups. Moreover, we used real-time confocal microscopy to observe the spontaneous Ca2+ oscillation (spontaneous fluctuation) in freshly isolated epithelia (ciliated cells) in ampulla potion of oviduct from the two groups. The results show as demonstrated by immunohistochemistry the gap junction proteins (Cx26, Cx32 and Cx43) formed a well-regulated expression in the young animals, but not in the adult animals. In addition, the [Ca2+]i dynamics of ciliated cells in freshly oviduct epithelia have a spontaneous fluctuation pattern that occurs without any stimulation in the young animals, but this pattern was not observed in the adult animals. In conclusions, our findings suggest that gap junctions regulate the spontaneous fluctuation of [Ca2+]i dynamics in ciliated cells of oviduct epithelia in young animals.
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- Jun Yan
- Department of Anatomy, School of medicine, Iwate Medical University, 2-1-1, Nishi-Tokuta, Yahaba-cho, Shiwa-Gun, Iwate, 028-3694, Japan.
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Santillo A, Burrone L, Minucci S, Di Giovanni M, Chieffi Baccari G. Molecular pathways involved in the cyclic activity of frog (Pelophylax esculentus) Harderian gland: Influence of temperature and testosterone. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2011; 158:71-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2010.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2010] [Revised: 09/14/2010] [Accepted: 09/17/2010] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Canpolat Koyutürk L. The effects of adrenalectomy on the harderian gland of the Wistar albino rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 90:233-41. [PMID: 14594194 DOI: 10.1556/aphysiol.90.2003.3.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Harderian glands of the Wistar albino rats normal and adrenalectomized were investigated by light microscopy. In normal, these glands have a tubuloalveolar structure. The gland is located in the medio posterior aspect of the orbit. It is lobulated and appears homogeneous in colour and texture. Harderian gland consist of tubules with wide lumina lined by a single layer of columnar epithelial cells surrounded by myoepithelial cells within their basal lamina. It contains porphyrin pigment which is stored as solid intraluminal deposits. The glandular epithelium possesses two cell types, termed A and B. Type A cells are more numerous. The single excretory duct of the gland is directly continuous with endpieces at the hilus and opens nasally and ventrally to the third eyelid. The excretory duct is accompanied by many acini of small serous glands around it. The tubuloalveoli of the gland is not divided into lobules. There is no branched duct system within the gland. The secretion seems to be associated with porphyrins, is essentially released by exocytosis, but holocrine secretion also occurs. The single excretory duct is lined by a stratified epithelium. The gland is surrounded by a collagenous capsule. The adrenalectomy, caused degenerative changes in the glands. Epithelial height was lower than in normal gland epithelium. Most of the acini were completely disorganised. The acinar lumina were filled with porphyrin debris. The results suggest that rat harderian glands are sensitive to adrenal androgen changes in both male and female rats.
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Cui ZJ, Zhou YD, Satoh Y, Habara Y. A physiological role for protoporphyrin IX photodynamic action in the rat Harderian gland? ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 2003; 179:149-54. [PMID: 14510778 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.2003.01177.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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AIMS The lipid-secreting exocrine Harderian gland contains a large amount of porphyrins (mainly protoporphyrin IX, PPIX) in the glandular cells, the physiological significance of which is rather poorly understood. METHODS In the present study, the possibility of using Fura-2 to measure intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]c) changes in these cells was assessed. RESULTS It was found that when Fura-2-loaded cells were excited by light at 340/380 nm, [Ca2+]c increased spontaneously, indicating a photodynamic action powered by light at 340/380 nm. In contrast, with the visible spectrum calcium probe Fluo-3 (lambda(ex) = 475 nm), carbachol at 10 microm induced [Ca2+]c increase; [Ca2+]c did not change without carbachol stimulation. Brief illumination with light at 340/380 nm induced a large [Ca2+]c increase in Fluo-3-loaded cells. Photodynamic stimulation of [Ca2+]c increase was confirmed with an exogenous photosensitizer sulphonated aluminium phthalocyanine (SALPC) and visible light (>580 nm). The wavelength-dependence of the [Ca2+]c increase correlates well with the excitation spectrum of the isolated Harderian glandular cells. CONCLUSION These data suggest that PPIX present in rat Harderian glandular cells plays the role of a photosensitizer which upon activation by UVA and blue components of daylight and subsequent singlet oxygen generation, triggers [Ca2+]c increase and secretory response. The PPIX photodynamic action may also play a potential role in photic entrainment of the central circadian clock.
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- Z J Cui
- Institute of Cell Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Vaughan MK, Chen L, Sewerynek E, Herbert DC, Weaker FJ, Vaughan GM, Reiter RJ. Mg(2+)-dependent and Ca2+, Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activities in the harderian gland of rodents: age and sex influences. Microsc Res Tech 1996; 34:144-8. [PMID: 8722709 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0029(19960601)34:2<144::aid-jemt8>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Three experiments employing male and female Syrian hamsters (aged 1, 2, and 8-10 months), male Sprague-Dawley rats (aged 1, 2, and 10 months) and male C57B1 mice (aged 2, 7, 13, and 29 months) examined the effects of age and sex on Mg(2+)-dependent and Ca2+, Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity in the Harderian gland. Significant differences due to age and sex were observed in the hamsters and rats but not with age in mice. Generally, male hamsters had significantly higher Mg(2+)-dependent and Ca2+, Mg(2+)-dependent (exception at one timepoint) ATPase activity than did females. Age-matched male and female rats had similar values of Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity, but males had significantly higher Ca2+, Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity than females at 2 months of age.
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- M K Vaughan
- Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284, USA
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The mammalian Harderian glands are lipid-secreting glands. In an unstimulated condition, the glandular cells frequently exocytose the lipid materials; however, no intracellular calcium ion ([Ca2+]c) changes are detectable. Cholinergic (muscarinic) secretagogues induce secretory activity and increase of [Ca2+]c. A G-protein activator, sodium fluoride, enhances the secretory activity and increase of [Ca2+]c. Removal of extracellular calcium ions inhibits the secretion enhanced by cholinergic stimulation. Under pharmacologic stimulation, glandular cells may show an apocrine-like secretory pattern. Cholinergic stimulation also induces contraction of the myoepithelial cells covering glandular end pieces; however, the reduction in volume of glandular end pieces is not prominent. Catecholamines have no effect on the release of lipid materials. These results indicate the involvement of G-proteins linking with muscarinic receptors and Ca2+ dynamics (increase of [Ca2+]c and Ca2+ influx) in lipid secretion by glandular cells and in contraction of myoepithelial cells of mammalian Harderian glands. However, the increase of [Ca2+]c in Harderian glands was less when compared with other cells--for instance, those which secrete protein.
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- Y Satoh
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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Tolivia D, Uria H, Mayo JC, Antolin I, Rodriguez-Colunga MJ, Menendez-Pelaez A. Invasive processes in the normal Harderian gland of Syrian hamster. Microsc Res Tech 1996; 34:55-64. [PMID: 8859888 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0029(19960501)34:1<55::aid-jemt8>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In this contribution we will pay special attention to several morphological findings that we can observe, under some circumstances, in the normal Harderian gland of the Syrian hamster. The accumulation of porphyrins in this gland results in mitochondrial damage and extensive cell death. Many damaged cells are secreted into the lumen of the tubule-alveoli, but most of them seem to produce an invasive process that even affects the vascular components of the gland. In this way, many blood vessels are invaded and appear partially filled with the invasive mass, which sometimes totally occludes the lumen of the vessels. We have also observed other surprising features related to a special kind of activity in certain secretory cells. Such activity results in a peculiar "segregation" of a cytoplasmic fragment, containing the nucleus. The affected cells seem to gather up their cytoplasm and nucleus towards the basal zone, while the rest of the cell, including practically the whole amount of lipid droplets, is relegated to the vicinity of the lumen. All these phenomena seem finally to result in the detachment of some clusters, composed of a limited number of cells, which display a basophilic cytoplasm practically free of lipid droplets.
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- D Tolivia
- Departamento de Morfologia y Biologia Celular, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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Gesase AP, Satoh Y, Ono K. G-protein activation enhances Ca(2+)-dependent lipid secretion of the rat harderian gland. ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY 1995; 192:319-28. [PMID: 8554165 DOI: 10.1007/bf00710101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We studied the secretory mechanism of the Harderian gland of rats. After perfusion with HEPES-buffered Ringer's solution containing NaF (10 mM) with AlCl3 (10 microM), a G-protein activator, the glandular cells of the Harderian gland showed massive exocytosis and apocrine-like protrusions on the luminal surface. Some of the secretory vacuoles aggregated within the cytoplasm, and large vacuoles were formed. Contraction of the myoepithelial cells covering the glandular endpieces caused a narrowing of the glandular lumina, which contained cytoplasmic fragments, and deformation of the basal contour of the glandular end-pieces. The basal regions of the glandular cells also bulged between the myoepithelial cells. Secretory vacuoles were also discharged to the lateral cell surface, and the intercellular spaces were dilated. The enhanced secretory activities of the glandular cells and the contraction of the myoepithelial cells were similar to those in rats stimulated with 10 microM carbachol (CCh). However, dilatation of the endoplasmic reticulum in glandular cells (type A cells), which leads to the formation of small vesicles, was observed in those glands stimulated by NaF+AlCl3, but not in those stimulated by CCh. Removal of Ca2+ from the perfusing HR or addition of EDTA (0.5 mM) diminished and inhibited NaF+AlCl3- or CCh-enhanced secretory activity of the glandular cells and also allayed the deformation of glandular cells caused by myoepithelial cell contraction. The present results demonstrate the involvement of G-proteins and Ca(2+)-influx in the lipid secretion of glandular cells and in the contraction of myoepithelial cells of the Harderian gland in rats.
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- A P Gesase
- Department of Anatomy, Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
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Di Matteo L, Baccari GC, Minucci S. Effect of cholinergic secretagogue substances on the morphology of the harderian gland in the frog, Rana esculenta. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART A, PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 112:29-34. [PMID: 7553334 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)00095-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The present study using secretagogue substances was undertaken to investigate Harderian gland secretion in the frog, Rana esculenta. Carbamylcholine chloride and bethanechol injections caused enhancement of the secretory activity and hyperemia, while nicotine did not. Morphological examinations showed reduced cellular height and dilated alveolar lumina, containing secretory granule discharge, nuclei and cytoplasmic fragments, indicating an apocrine and holocrine secretion type. The administration of atropine prevented the enhancement of the secretion. Our data suggest that cholinergic stimulation provokes enhancement of the secretory activity on the frog HG, and this mechanism appears to be mediated by the activation of the muscarinic receptors.
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- L Di Matteo
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Funzioni Biologiche Integrate F. Bottazzi, Italy
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