scholarly journals Scanning electron microscopy of murine skin ultrathin sections and cultured keratinocytes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 100729
Author(s):  
Avinanda Banerjee ◽  
Ritusree Biswas ◽  
Ryan Lim ◽  
Hilda Amalia Pasolli ◽  
Srikala Raghavan
Author(s):  
S. R. Bawa ◽  
H. K. Bains

Associations amongst spermatozoa have been reported in a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Spermatozoa come together and are attached to each other only in the region of the head, their tails are free – required to steer the spermatozoa. We have studied sperm-sperm association in squirrel using electron microscopy.Small pieces of epididymides of adult squirrels (Funambulus pennanti) were fixed in cacodylate buffered glutaraldehyde and processed in a conventional manner for transmission and scanning electron microscopy Ultrathin sections and freeze-fracture replicas were examined with JEOL 1200 EX electron microscope.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (17) ◽  
pp. 2348-2357 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Tewari ◽  
W. P. Skoropad

The structure and development of oospores of Albugo candida in the stagheads in rapeseed (Brassica campestris) were investigated by light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy of ultrathin sections, and scanning electron microscopy. Development of an oospore, in general, is similar to that in Pythium. A reaction zone is formed in the oogonial wall at the point of contact by the fertilization tube of the antheridium. The oospore has a highly differentiated five-layered cell wall. The periplasm appears to play an active role in deposition of the cell wall of the oospore. Contents of the periplasm do not disappear after maturation of the oospore; instead, they forma persistent material between it and the oogonial wall. Hence, functionally, the oospore wall complex has two additional layers. Longevity of the oospore may be due to the heavily fortified cell wall.


1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 943-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kilbertus ◽  
J. Proth

Scanning electron microscopy was used to evidence the aggregated structure of a forest soil as well as the presence of fungal hyphae external to soil aggregates.The supernatant of soil suspension in water mainly contained isolated bacteria, while ultrathin sections of aggregates frequently revealed groups of bacteria surrounded by a sheath of mucilage with adhering clay minerals on the outside.These results confirm the existence of two particular biotopes in the soil studied: one is located inside aggregates, and the other, in the inter-aggregate spaces. [Translated by the journal]


Author(s):  
Gen Takahashi

Tissue blocks or slices about 1 mm in thickness were treated according to the following procedures both for transmission electron microscopy(SEM) and for scanning electron microscopy(SEM).[A] Primary Osmication(Fixation): 2%0s04 in 0.1 M Na-cacodylate buffer or Millo- nig's phosphate buffer(pH7.4) for 2 hrs at 4°C.[B] Postfixation and Mordanting: 2-4 % tannic acid—8(2-16)%glutaraldehyde in the buffer(pH6.8-7.0),for 1-40 hrs at 4°C.[C] Secondary Osmication(Staining): 2 %0s04 in the buffer(pH7.4)for 2 hrs at 4°C. Specimens after step C were rapidly dehydrated and embedded in Epon. Ultrathin sections were cut with diamond knives. Although sections without heavy metal staining could be observed with moderate contrast, they were stained briefly with lead solution for high magnification, because of sublimation of osmium by intense electron bombardment.


Author(s):  
Walter J. Humphreys ◽  
David T. Lindsay

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of specimens freeze-dried after fixation in Parducz fixative and ultrathin sections of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus show that the egg is covered by many papillae about 0.25μ in diameter and 0.5μ long (Fig. 1a). When the vitelline layer lifts away from the surface of the egg at the time of fertilization it has many uniformly spaced protrusions that persist as prominent and consistent structural features of the fertilization membrane, which forms when material from ruptured cortical granules is added to the inner surface of the raised vitelline membrane. Dimensions of the protrusions, their spacing on the membrane, and their projection in a direction outward from the egg (Fig. 1b) suggests that they originate when the vitelline layer lifts away from the egg surface in the form of a somewhat distorted and expanded replica of the papillae-bearing surface of the unfertilized egg.


Author(s):  
G. E. Tyson

Visceral epithelial cells (podocytes) of the rat renal corpuscle are highly branched -in shape (1-3) and contain numerous cytoplasmic microtubules (4). In a previous study of podocytes by Tyson and Bulger (4), microtubule loss was induced by intravenous injections of vinblastine sulfate, and then renal tissue was examined by routine transmission electron microscopy. With a vinblastine treatment that resulted in nearly complete absence of microtubules in podocytes, examination of ultrathin sections yielded no evidence that loss of microtubules was accompanied by a change in cell shape. Similar experiments, described below, have now been performed using scanning electron microscopy, in order to facilitate recognition of subtle shape changes that would not be readily apparent in sectioned material.


Author(s):  
P.S. Porter ◽  
T. Aoyagi ◽  
R. Matta

Using standard techniques of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), over 1000 human hair defects have been studied. In several of the defects, the pathogenesis of the abnormality has been clarified using these techniques. It is the purpose of this paper to present several distinct morphologic abnormalities of hair and to discuss their pathogenesis as elucidated through techniques of scanning electron microscopy.


Author(s):  
P.J. Dailey

The structure of insect salivary glands has been extensively investigated during the past decade; however, none have attempted scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in ultrastructural examinations of these secretory organs. This study correlates fine structure by means of SEM cryofractography with that of thin-sectioned epoxy embedded material observed by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM).Salivary glands of Gromphadorhina portentosa were excised and immediately submerged in cold (4°C) paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde fixative1 for 2 hr, washed and post-fixed in 1 per cent 0s04 in phosphosphate buffer (4°C for 2 hr). After ethanolic dehydration half of the samples were embedded in Epon 812 for TEM and half cryofractured and subsequently critical point dried for SEM. Dried specimens were mounted on aluminum stubs and coated with approximately 150 Å of gold in a cold sputtering apparatus.Figure 1 shows a cryofractured plane through a salivary acinus revealing topographical relief of secretory vesicles.


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