Comparative Studies of the Dorsal Surface of the Tongue in Three Mammalian Species by Scanning Electron Microscopy

1987 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ichi Iwasaki ◽  
Ken Miyata ◽  
Kan Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Scanning Electron

Scanning electron microscopy of the integument of schistosoma rodhaini

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 132-133
Author(s):  
P. Evers ◽  
C. Schutte ◽  
C. D. Dettman
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Oral Sucker ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Sensory Receptors ◽  
East African ◽  
Dorsal Midline ◽  
Scanning Electron

S.rodhaini (Brumpt 1931) is a parasite of East African rodents which may possibly hybridize with the human schistosome S. mansoni. The adult male at maturity measures approximately 3mm long and possesses both oral and ventral suckers and a marked gynaecophoric canal. The oral sucker is surrounded by a ring of sensory receptors with a large number of inwardly-pointing spines set into deep sockets occupying the bulk of the ventral surface of the sucker. Numbers of scattered sensory receptors are found on both dorsal and ventral surfaces of the head (Fig. 1) together with two conspicuous rows of receptors situated symmetrically on each side of the midline. One row extends along the dorsal surface of the head midway between the dorsal midline and the lateral margin.

Morphology of Inner Hair Cell Stereocilia in C57BL/6J Mice as Studied by Scanning Electron Microscopy

1983 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry J. Garfinkle ◽  
James C. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hair Cell ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Total Surface Area ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Inner Hair Cell ◽  
Tuning Curves ◽  
Sensory Hairs ◽  
Scanning Electron

The observation that hair cell tuning curves exhibit frequency selectivity as sharply tuned as that seen in auditory nerve fibers has prompted closer examination of the sensory hairs or stereocilia. The present study was designed to examine the morphologic organization of inner hair cell stereocilia in a mammalian species, the neonatal C57BL/6J mouse. The cochleae of mice were fixed in OSO4, dehydrated, dissected, and prepared for scanning electron microscopy. An examination of the number of stereocilia per inner hair cell revealed an orderly decrease from base to apex. Conversely, there was a 300% increase in the height of the tallest stereocilia, a 100% increase in the height of the middle row stereocilia, and a 30% increase in shortest stereocilia from base to apex. The total surface area of the stereocilia, per hair cell, was shown to increase by approximately 250% from the base to the apex of the cochlea.

A different type of amphibian mesoderm morphogenesis in Ceratophrys ornata

Development ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Purcell ◽  
R. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Surface Layer ◽  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Surface Epithelium ◽  
Histological Sections ◽  
Fourth Zone ◽  
Scanning Electron

Ceratophrys ornata, the Argentinean horned frog, has a significantly different pattern of early morphogenesis than does the most studied amphibian, Xenopus laevis. Time-lapse videomicroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, histological sections and lineage tracers have shown that, in C. ornata, some prospective notochord, somite and tailbud mesoderm cells leave the surface epithelium of the archenteron by ingression. After gastrulation, SEM reveals cells with constricted apices and a bottle shape in three zones on the archenteron roof and in a fourth zone around the blastopore. Prospective somitic tissue ingresses first from two lateral zones, followed by ingression of prospective notochord from the medial zone and tailbud mesoderm from the circumblastoporal zone. This is unlike X. laevis, in which no cells with constricted apices are present on the dorsal surface of the archenteron, nor do any cells ingress into the deep mesodermal layers from the surface layer.

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