scholarly journals Level of neurotransmitters in neuroamine-containing lung structures in different forms of tuberculosis

Author(s):  
N. Gimaldinova ◽  
L. Lyubovtseva ◽  
E. Lyubovtseva

The aim of the study was to identify the features of variations in the localization of monoamines (catecholamines, serotonin)in the cell structures of autopsy material of lungs affected by tuberculosis. Material and methods. 165 cases of secondary pulmonary tuberculosis were studied. We studied 2500 histological preparations of patients aged 30 to 55 years, divided into 5 groups, corresponding to the forms of secondary tuberculosis (group 1-acute focal tuberculosis, group 2-fibro-focal tuberculosis, group 3-infiltrative tuberculosis, group 4-acute cavernous tuberculosis, group 5 - fibro-cavernous tuberculosis. To selectively detect neuroamine-containing structures of the lungs and adrenergic nerve fibers, the Falk-Hillarp luminescence-histochemical method was used in the modification of E. M. Krokhina, based on the reaction of neuroamine condensation with formaldehyde. Results. When using the Falk-Hillarp luminescence-histochemical method, mycobacteria of tuberculosis containing catecholamines and serotonin were detected in autopsy material of lungs affected by a specific inflammatory process, as well as neuroamine-containing granular luminescent cells and mast cells. Affected and unaffected areas of the lungs contain different amounts of the studied monoamines. The results of the study revealed the dependence of the number of cells and the content of the studied bioamines in them on the form of secondary tuberculosis. It was found that in small forms of secondary tuberculosis (acute focal, fibrotic-focal), the number of cells and quantitative parameters of the studied neurotransmitters (catecholamines, serotonin) in granular luminescent cells and mast cells change in the direction of increase. In destructive processes in the lungs (acute cavernous and fibrous-cavernous tuberculosis), the content of catecholamines in the studied structures in the affected area prevails over the control. The concentration of serotonin in the studied cells of the area of lung tissue affected by the tuberculosis process is reduced. The number of neuroamine-containing cells is significantly reduced. The maximum luminescence of catecholamines and serotonin in granular luminescent cells was determined in the infiltrative form of tuberculosis. In mast cells, the highest content of catecholamines was found in the group of acute cavernous tuberculosis, and serotonin in the group of the infiltrative form of the disease. In stained sections of the lungs in this form of tuberculosis, a luminescent pathway of lymphocytes was found. The nerve fibers detected at the sites of mycobacteria were also changed. They did not have a clear luminescence, looked "swollen", in places they did not have varicose veins. Conclusion. Comparing the results of the study with the literature data, it was found that pulmonary tuberculosis occurs as a delayed reaction, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis manifests itself as a corpuscular antigen.

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1586
Author(s):  
Tomoe Yashiro ◽  
Hanako Ogata ◽  
Syed Faisal Zaidi ◽  
Jaemin Lee ◽  
Shusaku Hayashi ◽  
...  

Recently, the involvement of the nervous system in the pathology of allergic diseases has attracted increasing interest. However, the precise pathophysiological role of enteric neurons in food allergies has not been elucidated. We report the presence of functional high-affinity IgE receptors (FcεRIs) in enteric neurons. FcεRI immunoreactivities were observed in approximately 70% of cholinergic myenteric neurons from choline acetyltransferase-eGFP mice. Furthermore, stimulation by IgE-antigen elevated intracellular Ca2+ concentration in isolated myenteric neurons from normal mice, suggesting that FcεRIs are capable of activating myenteric neurons. Additionally, the morphological investigation revealed that the majority of mucosal mast cells were in close proximity to enteric nerve fibers in the colonic mucosa of food allergy mice. Next, using a newly developed coculture system of isolated myenteric neurons and mucosal-type bone-marrow-derived mast cells (mBMMCs) with a calcium imaging system, we demonstrated that the stimulation of isolated myenteric neurons by veratridine caused the activation of mBMMCs, which was suppressed by the adenosine A3 receptor antagonist MRE 3008F20. Moreover, the expression of the adenosine A3 receptor gene was detected in mBMMCs. Therefore, in conclusion, it is suggested that, through interaction with mucosal mast cells, IgE-antigen-activated myenteric neurons play a pathological role in further exacerbating the pathology of food allergy.


1991 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Koistinaho

Neuroscience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Dimitriadou ◽  
A Rouleau ◽  
M.D Trung Tuong ◽  
G.J.F Newlands ◽  
H.R.P Miller ◽  
...  

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michio Kimura ◽  
Kazuo Tohya ◽  
Kyo-ichi Kuroiwa ◽  
Hirohisa Oda ◽  
E. Christo Gorawski ◽  
...  

During a sparrow-pecking and twisting-needle manipulation to the acupoints BL 23, 24 and 25 for an induction of "Qi", it was found that some transparent materials were binding to the needles after removed from the volunteer's skin. Electron-microscopical analysis of the transparent materials revealed that they corresponded to the injured fascia made up of collagen fibers, elastic fibers, fibroblasts, adipocytes and mast cells. Rarely were nerve fiber-like structures observed in the materials. Immunohistochemically, calcitonin gene-related peptide-positive nerve fibers could be demonstrated in the acupoint BL 24 associated fascia. A possible functional relationship between the needle manipulation and the induction of Qi-sensation is discussed along with the acupoint tissue constitution.


1976 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1231-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Enerbäck ◽  
G Berlin ◽  
I Svensson ◽  
I Rundquist

Mast cells can be automatically identified in a mixed cell population by flow cytofluorometry after Berberine sulphate staining. Volume specific counts of the total number of cells and number of mast cells, as well as frequency distributions of fluorescence intensities of mast cells, based on a large number of cells, can be rapidly obtained. Results obtained by microscope fluorometry of cells identified by phase contrast microscopy showviously published results it may be inferred that the fluorescence intensity of individual mast cells is proportional to mast cell heparin content. The automated cell counts correlated very well with manual hemocytometer counts. Both cell counts and the determination of mean mast cell fluorescence showed excellent reproducibility.


Author(s):  
T. G. Sharamko ◽  
A. A. Kuleshov ◽  
A. M. Cherkashov ◽  
V. I. Kuz’min ◽  
M. E. Yudakova ◽  
...  

Introduction. Clinical efficacy of radiofrequency destruction (RFD) for the treatment of vertebrogenic pain syndrome and pain in coxarthrosis is confirmed by multiple studies. However the matter on morphologic changes in the nerve and surrounding tissue after directed local radiofrequency effect. Materials and methods. The study was performed on autopsy material – fragments of tibial nerve from 6 patients with lethal outcomes. Radiofrequency destruction was performed according to a standard protocol: within 90 sec under 80 C°. The sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin by Bilshowski-Gros method. Results. It was shown that RFD causes the coagulation lesions of the nerve tissue such as spiral deformation, axon fragmentation and nerve fibers dissociation. Conclusion. The data obtained may serve as a morphologic basis of RDF clinical efficacy. The presence of undamaged Schwann cells allows assuming the tropism of the effect upon the nerve tissue.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Champlain

Histofluorescent and biochemical changes in the adrenergic nervous system were followed up in rat tissues after one single intravenous injection of a high dose of 100 mg/kg of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OH-DA). This treatment results in the rapid disappearance of terminal and preterminal fibers in the iris, atria, and small arteries of rats, whereas endogenous noradrenaline pools of the heart are 95% depleted. The capacity of the adrenergic nerve to take up and accumulate tritiated noradrenaline is reduced proportionally to the reduction in endogenous noradrenaline levels. These changes are compatible with the concept of a complete sympathectomy induced by the specific toxic action of 6-OH-DA on the adrenergic fibers. This sympathectomy is not permanent, however, and numerous bundles of preterminal fibers start to grow in the iris and atria within 4 to 5 days following injection. Progressively, in the following weeks, these fibers distribute over the whole organ and give birth to terminal fibers which form a new adrenergic plexus in these tissues. A completely normal innervation is restored 2 to 3 months after administration of 6-OH-DA. The endogenous noradrenaline levels rise progressively in parallel to the development of the new plexus of fibers. Since a complete regeneration of the adrenergic innervation can be demonstrated in the weeks following injection of 6-OH-DA, it appears that this compound can selectively destroy the adrenergic terminal and preterminal fibers without causing a degeneration of the adrenergic ganglion cells.


1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 933-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Panula ◽  
M Kaartinen ◽  
M Mäcklin ◽  
E Costa

An immunohistochemical method was developed to detect histamine in tissues. The aim of this study was to reveal the cellular stores of histamine in the gastrointestinal tract, pituitary, and adrenal gland. Histamine-containing nerve fibers were found in both rat and guinea pig gut. The origin of at least some of these fibers in the rat ileum was the submucous ganglion cell layer. In the rat stomach, numerous enterochromaffin-like cells exhibited histamine immunofluorescence, and endocrine cells in the ileum and jejunum contained histamine. Only mast cells contained histamine in the neurohypophysis. A large number of process-bearing cells in the guinea pig but not in the rat adrenal medulla contained histamine. The study shows that histamine is present in peripheral nerves and endocrine cells in addition to mast cells, and may function as a neurotransmitter or hormone.


1997 ◽  
Vol 273 (6) ◽  
pp. E1194-E1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O. Mundinger ◽  
C. Bruce Verchere ◽  
Denis G. Baskin ◽  
Michael R. Boyle ◽  
Stephan Kowalyk ◽  
...  

Stimulation of canine hepatic nerves releases the neuropeptide galanin from the liver; therefore, galanin may be a sympathetic neurotransmitter in the dog liver. To test this hypothesis, we used immunocytochemistry to determine if galanin is localized in hepatic sympathetic nerves and we used hepatic sympathetic denervation to verify such localization. Liver sections from dogs were immunostained for both galanin and the sympathetic enzyme marker tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). Galanin-like immunoreactivity (GALIR) was colocalized with TH in many axons of nerve trunks as well as individual nerve fibers located both in the stroma of hepatic blood vessels and in the liver parenchyma. Neither galanin- nor TH-positive cell bodies were observed. Intraportal 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) infusion, a treatment that selectively destroys hepatic adrenergic nerve terminals, abolished the GALIR staining in parenchymal neurons but only moderately diminished the GALIR staining in the nerve fibers around blood vessels. To confirm that 6-OHDA pretreatment proportionally depleted galanin and norepinephrine in the liver, we measured both the liver content and the hepatic nerve-stimulated spillover of galanin and norepinephrine from the liver. Pretreatment with 6-OHDA reduced the content and spillover of both galanin and norepinephrine by >90%. Together, these results indicate that galanin in dog liver is primarily colocalized with norepinephrine in sympathetic nerves and may therefore function as a hepatic sympathetic neurotransmitter.


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