scholarly journals Expression of proteoglycans and hyaluronan during wound healing.

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Oksala ◽  
T Salo ◽  
R Tammi ◽  
L Häkkinen ◽  
M Jalkanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Basement Membrane ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Paraffin Sections ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Suprabasal Cell ◽  
Epithelial Sheets ◽  
Wound Epithelium

We investigated the expression of proteoglycans (PGs) and hyaluronan (HA) during healing of human mucosal wounds. Biopsy specimens of experimental wounds were taken 1, 3, and 7 days after wounding. Frozen sections were used for immunolocalization of CD44, syndecan-1, basement membrane-associated heparan sulfate proteoglycan (BM-HSPG), decorin, and biglycan. HA was localized in paraffin sections with a specific HA-binding probe. Epithelium showed first signs of migration on Day 1, more progressive migration on Day 3, and epithelial sheets confronted on Day 7. CD44 surrounded migrating keratinocytes at all stages of wound healing. In epithelium, CD44 and HA remarkably localized to the same region. Expression of syndecan-1 was switched from the suprabasal cell layer of unwounded epithelium to the basal cell layer of the migrating wound epithelium. BM-HSPG was absent under migrating keratinocytes. It started to reappear at the basement membrane zone on Day 7. The area under the wound epithelium containing newly synthesized collagen fibers first became positive for decorin on Day 7, whereas staining of biglycan was negative. Granulation tissue was also strongly positive for CD44 and hyaluronan. Our results indicate that migrating keratinocytes express both CD44 and syndecan-1 but not BM-HSPG. During differentiation of keratinocytes, expression of CD44 preceded that of syndecan-1. The results suggest that different HSPGs have multiple functions in keratinocyte migration and differentiation during reepithelialization.

scholarly journals Regulation of epidermal differentiation by a Distal-less homeodomain gene.

1996 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 1879-1887 ◽  
Author(s):  
M I Morasso ◽  
N G Markova ◽  
T D Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Cell Layer ◽  
Ectopic Expression ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Epidermal Differentiation ◽  
Basal Cells ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Suprabasal Cell ◽  
Important Regulator ◽  
Perinatal Lethality

The Distal-less-related homeodomain gene Dlx3 is expressed in terminally differentiated murine epidermal cells. Ectopic expression of this gene in the basal cell layer of transgenic skin results in a severely abnormal epidermal phenotype and leads to perinatal lethality. The basal cells of affected mice ceased to proliferate, and expressed the profilaggrin and loricrin genes which are normally transcribed only in the latest stages of epidermal differentiation. All suprabasal cell types were diminished and the stratum corneum was reduced to a single layer. These data indicate that Dlx3 misexpression results in transformation of basal cells into more differentiated keratinocytes, suggesting that this homeoprotein is an important regulator of epidermal differentiation.

scholarly journals Correlated alterations in prostate basal cell layer and basement membrane

2009 ◽  
pp. 276-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aijun Liu ◽  
Lixin Wei ◽  
William A. Gardner ◽  
Chu-Xia Deng ◽  
Yan-Gao Man
Keyword(s):  
Basement Membrane ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Basal Cell Layer

Sclerosing Adenosis of the Prostate

2003 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. e14-e16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael J. Luque ◽  
Antonio Lopez-Beltran ◽  
Carlos Perez-Seoane ◽  
Sueli Suzigan
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Needle Biopsy ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Benign Lesion ◽  
Acinar Cells ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Myxoid Stroma ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Myoepithelial Differentiation ◽  
Sclerosing Adenosis

Abstract Sclerosing adenosis of the prostate is a pseudoneoplastic lesion that can mimic prostate cancer. Because the lesion is more common in the transition zone, which is only rarely sampled in needle biopsy, it is uncommon to see examples of this lesion in biopsy specimens. Because sampling of the transition zone of the prostate is likely to become more frequent, practicing surgical pathologists must be aware of the morphologic features of sclerosing adenosis of the prostate in needle biopsy specimens, in order to avoid misinterpretation of sclerosing adenosis of the prostate, a benign lesion, as prostate adenocarcinoma. We report the morphologic findings of sclerosing adenosis of the prostate in 3 needle biopsy specimens from 2 patients diagnosed as having sclerosing adenosis. We found a combination of histologic (mainly a cellular myxoid stroma and a double-cell population of acinar cells) and immunohistochemical features demonstrating a continuous basal cell layer with myoepithelial differentiation to be diagnostic.

Scanning Electron Microscopy of Human Jejunum in Whipple's Disease

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 354-355
Author(s):  
John H. L. Watson ◽  
C. N. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Basement Membrane ◽  
Lamina Propria ◽  
Brush Border ◽  
Whipple’S Disease ◽  
Whipple's Disease ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Brush Borders ◽  
Scanning Electron

That the etiology of Whipple's disease could be bacterial was first suggested from electron micrographs in 1960. Evidence for binary fission of the bacteria, their phagocytosis by histiocytes in the lamina propria, their occurrence between and within the cells of the epithelium and on the brush border of the lumen were reported later. Scanning electron microscopy has been applied by us in an attempt to confirm the earlier observations by the new technique and to describe the bacterium further. Both transmission and scanning electron microscopy have been used concurrently to study the same biopsy specimens, and transmission observations have been used to confirm those made by scanning.The locations of the brush borders, the columnar epithelial cells, the basement membrane and the lamina propria beneath it were each easily identified by scanning electron microscopy. The lamina propria was completely filled with the wiener-shaped bacteria, Fig. 1.

Localization of Immune Complexes in the Basement Membrane of the Ductuli Efferentes of the Rhesus Monkey

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 456-457
Author(s):  
D. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Basement Membrane ◽  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Rhesus Monkey ◽  
Immune Complex ◽  
Immune Complexes ◽  
Vas Deferens ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
Efferent Ducts ◽  
Complex Deposition ◽  
Sperm Antibodies

As a result of vasectomy, spermatozoa are confined to the epididymis and vas deferens, where they degenerate, releasing antigens that enter the circulation or are engulfed by macrophages. Multiple antigens of the sperm can elicit production of autoantibodies; circulating anti-sperm antibodies are found in a large percentage of vasectomized men, indicating the immunogenicity of the sperm. The increased prevalence of macrophages in the liomen of the rhesus monkey testicular efferent ducts after vasectomy led to further study of this region. Frozen sections were used for evaluation of immunopathological status by fluorescence microscopy with fluorescein-conjugated antibody. Subsequent granular deposits of immune complexes were revealed by positive immunofluorescence staining for complement. The immune complex deposition in the basement membrane surrounding the efferent ducts implies that this region is involved in antigen leakage (Fig. 1).

scholarly journals p-HYDROQUINONE AND p-BENZOQUINONE AS HISTOCHEMICAL REAGENTS I. A NEW TETRAZOLIUM METHOD FOR AMINO GROUPS, AND THE MECHANISM OF FORMAZAN STAINING OF PARAFFIN AND FRESH FROZEN SECTIONS

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 404-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. CARMICHAEL ◽  
STEPHANIE T. K. MANDER
Keyword(s):  
Electron Acceptor ◽  
Thermal Shrinkage ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
Amino Groups ◽  
Paraffin Sections ◽  
Tetrazolium Bromide ◽  
Acid Ph ◽  
Reduction System ◽  
Oxidation Reduction ◽  
Fresh Frozen

The staining of amino groups by formazan when dehydrated paraffin sections are incubated in a mixture of hydroquinone and 3-(4,5-dimethyl thiazolyl-2)-2 ,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide at an acid pH is reported. The mechanism of this reaction and of the cytoplasmic deposition of formazan in fresh frozen sections incubated under similar conditions is investigated. It is shown that the oxidation of hydroquinone to semiquinone is responsible for the reaction, the tetrazole acting as electron acceptor. The tissue amino groups, exposed by dehydration and thermal shrinkage, and the nitrogen groupings of phosphobipid behave as "catalysts." The relevant properties of the hydroquinone-benzoquinone oxidation-reduction system are described, and the reactions between benzoquinone and tissue constituents are reviewed.

Histopathological varieties of oral carcinomain situ: Diagnosis aided by immunohistochemistry dealing with the second basal cell layer as the proliferating center of oral mucosal epithelia

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanori Kobayashi ◽  
Satoshi Maruyama ◽  
Jun Cheng ◽  
Hiroko Ida-Yonemochi ◽  
Minoru Yagi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Basal Cell ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Carcinomain Situ

scholarly journals Morphological markers of secretory activity in prostatic adenocarcinoma

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 617-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Jankovic-Velickovic ◽  
Vuka Katic ◽  
Ivan Ignjatovic
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Mixed Type ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Secretory Activity ◽  
Gleason Grade ◽  
Morphological Markers ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Basal Cell Layer ◽  
Mucin Secretion ◽  
Infiltrative Growth Pattern

Background/Aim. The vast majority of prostatic tumors developing in adult males are adenocarcinomas (ACP). Histological diagnosis of prostate cancer relies on the infiltrative growth pattern, presence of macronucleoli, and absence of basal cell layer. In the last few years a special attention has been focused on investigation of cancerous glands lumen content. The aim of the study was to determine the presence of intraluminal (crystaloids, blue-tanged mucinous secretions and distension of glands) and extracellular markers of pathological secretions in ACP, as well as the type of intraluminal and extracellular mucinous secretions. Methods. Micromorphological and hystochemical (PAS, HIDAB pH 2.5) analysis was done in 96 patients to detemine differentiation by Gleason and markers of secretory activity. Results. In ACP neoplastic gland`s distension (53.12%), crystalloids (30.2%), basophilic secretions (26.04%) and presence of extracellular mucins (8.3%) were found. All morphological signs were detected in carcinoma of Gleason grade 1-4A. There was significant presence of crystalloids ((G1+G2)/G4 p < 0.05; G3/G4A p < 0.05), basophilic secretions (G3/G2 p < 0.05; G3/G4A p < 0.05) and extracellular mucins (G3/G4A p < 0.001). The association of these morphological features with neutral and acidic mucins secretion was statisticaly significant (p < 0.0001). Conclusion. This study showed that intraluminal and extracellular markers of secretory activity in ACP were significantly more often associated by mixed type of mucin secretion with predominace of sialomucins. .

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