Electron-microscopic investigation of the effects of exertion at high altitudes on skeletal muscle fibers

1982 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 1614-1617 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Shmerling ◽  
E. E. Filyushina ◽  
I. I. Buzueva
Author(s):  
A. Márquez ◽  
N.L. Diaz ◽  
H.J. Finol ◽  
M.E. Correa

To date the most accepted definition of sepsis includes the suspicion of infection plus the systemic response to it (tachypnea, tachycardia and hypothermia or hyperthermia). This condition could lead to the so called multiple organ failure syndrome (MOFS) when there are evidences of flinctional compromise in two or more systems. Muscle weakness and wasting are common findings in those patients. The skeletal muscle histopathology in patients with those two conditions has been poorly studied. The only electron microscopic investigation we could find describes alterations in muscle fibers and endplates.In this work we describe the whole spectrum of changes found in skeletal muscle of patients suffering from sepsis and MOFS.Five patients recluded in an Intensive Care Unit were selected, two had a diagnosis of sepsis, and three presented MOFS. Needle muscle biopsies from quadriceps femoris muscle were obtained. Tissue samples were processed with routine techniques for transmission electron microscopy and observed in a Hitachi H-500 electron microscope.


1997 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Wakayama ◽  
Makoto Murahashi ◽  
Takahiro Jimi ◽  
Hiroko Kojima ◽  
Seiji Shibuya ◽  
...  

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 376-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stirling Carpenter ◽  
George Karpati ◽  
Elizabeth Zubrzycka-Gaarn ◽  
Dennis E. Bulman ◽  
Peter N. Ray ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
G. Ilse ◽  
K. Kovacs ◽  
N. Ryan ◽  
T. Sano ◽  
L. Stefaneanu ◽  
...  

Germfree state and food restriction have been shown to increase life span and delay tumor occurrence in rats. We report here the histologic, immunocytochemical and electron microscopic findings of adenohypophyses of aging, male Lobund-Wistar rats raised at Lobund Laboratories. In our previous study, the morphologic changes in the adenohypophyses of old rats have been extensively investigated by histology, immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy. Lactotroph adenomas were frequent in Long-Evans and Sprague-Dawley rats, whereas gonadotroph adenomas were frequent in Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats.Male Lobund-Wistar rats were divided into four groups: 1) conventional, which were raised under normal non-germfree environment and received food ad libitum; 2) germfree-food ad libitum; 3) conventional environment-food restricted and 4) germfree-food restricted. The adenohypophyses were removed from 6-month-, 18-month- and 30-month-old rats. For light microscopy, adenohypophyses were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.


Author(s):  
P.W. Coates ◽  
E.A. Ashby ◽  
L. Krulich ◽  
A. Dhariwal ◽  
S. McCann

The morphologic effects on somatotrophs of crude sheep hypothalamic extract prepared from stalk-median eminence were studied by electron microscopy in conjunction with concurrently run bioassays performed on the same tissue samples taken from young adult male Sherman rats.Groups were divided into uninjected controls and injected experimentals sacrificed at 5', 15', and 30' after injection. Half of each anterior pituitary was prepared for electron microscopic investigation, the other half for bioassay. Fixation using collidine buffered osmium tetroxide was followed by dehydration and embedment in Maraglas. Uranyl acetate and lead citrate were used as stains. Thin sections were examined in a Philips EM 200.Somatotrophs from uninjected controls appeared as described in the literature (Fig. 1). In addition to other components, these cells contained moderate numbers of spherical, electron-dense, membrane-bound granules approximately 350 millicrons in diameter.


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