scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK MORFOLOGI ESOFAGUS DAN LAMBUNG BANDIKUT (Echymipera kalubu) (Esophagus and Stomach Morphological Characteristic of Bandicoot Echymipera kalubu (Marsupialia: Peroryctidae))

Author(s):  
Ursula Paulawati Maker ◽  
Chairun Nisa ◽  
Srihadi Agungpriyono

The morphological characteristics of the stomach and esophagus of five adults bandicoot (Echymipera kalubu) with average 1.16±0.29 kg in body weight and 38.2±4.76 cm in body length were studied macroscopically, microscopically and histochemically. The bandicoot esophagus were found relatively long about one third of body length. The esophageal glands were identified along the esophagus and the number decreased gradually from cranial to caudal region. In addition of smooth muscle, skeletal muscles were also examined in the external muscle layer of esophagus up to the esophageal junction. The stomach of the E. Kalubu had short lesser curvature and three glandular regions of cardiac, fundic and pyloric glands were observed, respectively. The cardiac glands area was small and concentrated in the cranial part of the stomach. The fundic glands area occupied about half parts of the stomach. Mucous surface epithelial cells, mucous neck cells, parietal cells and chief cells were found in the entire fundic gland. The parietal cells were the most abundant cells in the major curvature distributed from the basal to neck area of the glands, but few in the minor curvature. Chief cells were mostly distributed in the basal gland. The pyloric glands region was observed in caudal part of the stomach. Staining with alcian blue-periodic acid Schift (AB-PAS) showed various distribution and intensity of neutral and acid mucopolysaccharides in the esophageal and stomach mucosa. High concentration of neutral and acid mucopolysaccharides were detected in esophageal and stomach glands with various concentration. Morphological characteristics of the esophagus and stomach were assumed to be related to the digestive processes in the gastrointestinal tract of bandicoot.

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Guldvog ◽  
A. Berstad
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2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 0281
Author(s):  
AL –Nakeeb Et al.

          A histological study showed the wall of the stomach in Pica pica and Herpestes javanicus consists of four layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. Also, the present study showed many  differences in the histological structures of the stomach for each in both types. The stomach of P. pica consists of two portions: the proventiculus and gizzard, while the stomach of H. javanicus consists of three portions: cardiac, fundic and pyloric regions. The mucosa layer formed short gastric folds, named plicae. In the proventiculus of P. pica, sulcus is found between each two plicae, but the folds called gastric pits in the gizzard, which are full with koilin. Lamina properia in both types contained gastric glands (straight simple tubular glands) named superficial glands, as well as another gastric gland found in the submucosa layer of the proventiculus in P. pica only named deep gastric glands. The gastric gland in the stomach of H. javanicus contained: mucous neck cells and parietal cells positive to AB/PAS stains in cardiac portion, as well as chief cells in fundic portion, but pyloric portion had just mucous neck cells. Muscularis externa in both types formed two muscle layers: inner and outer layer.


1997 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Vij ◽  
M. S. Tantia ◽  
A. E. Nivsarkar

SummaryBonpala is a dual purpose sheep breed found in Sikkim, Western Bhutan and Eastern Nepal. A sample survey was conducted in east Sikkim to record characteristics of Bonpala sheep. Information was recorded on morphological characteristics, management practices and body measurements. Bonpala sheep have mixed colours ranging from all white, white and black or all black. Measurements were recorded of body length, height, heart girth, paunch girth, rump width, pin width, face length, face width, ear length, tail length, horn length and horn circumference.


1956 ◽  
Vol s3-97 (39) ◽  
pp. 329-332
Author(s):  
O. WALLIN

1. The scale of the roach (Leuciscus rutilus L.) was examined for state of calcification, metachromasy, and reaction to the periodic acid / Schiff (PAS) test. 2. Metachromasy and a positive PAS-reaction imply acid mucopolysaccharides in the bony layer. 3. There is a great increase in these reactions and in reactions for bone salts in the transition zone between the uncalcified and calcified part of the bony layer. 4. These reactions imply that the bond between the osseoid and the inorganic fraction of the bony layer is through SO2- and PO4- groupings. 5. The fibrillary plate lacks metachromasy, but shows a positive PAS-reaction. Before calcification a strong orthochromasy points to acid groups in connexion with the collagen. Under the radii there is no orthochromasy, and the PAS-reaction is negative. 6. When calcifying, the fibrillary plate loses its orthochromasy and the mineral matter is deposited as large crystal-complexes. 7. In regenerating scales the reactions are weaker than in normal scales.


1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Unz ◽  
T. M. Williams

An infestation of a rosette-forming microorganism, with morphological characteristics bearing some resemblance to Eikelboom type 021N and Thiothrix spp., occurred in the activated sludge process of a paper and pulp manufacturing facility during the autumn of 1986. The microorganism could not be eliminated by periodic acid-shocking of the mixed liquor with sulfuric acid, however, exposure of the mixed liquor solids for 10 days at controlled pH (circum pH 5.5) brought almost immediate lowering of the sludge volume index and effluent suspended solids to levels observed in normal operations. The bulking correction technique required no purchase of special chemicals in that the procedure was a mere modification of the liming step normally employed to bring the natural pH of the wastewater (pH 3) to a level suitable for the practice of biological treatment.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (6) ◽  
pp. G1104-G1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Muraoka ◽  
M. Kaise ◽  
Y. J. Guo ◽  
J. Yamada ◽  
I. Song ◽  
...  

H(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (H(+)-K(+)-ATPase) is the principal enzyme responsible for the process of gastric acid secretion. This enzyme is expressed in a cell-type-specific manner in gastric parietal cells. To explore the mechanisms regulating its expression, we transfected differentiated canine parietal cells in primary culture with H(+)-K(+)-ATPase-luciferase reporter genes and assessed transcriptional activities. Deletional analysis of the 5'-flanking region of this gene demonstrated a remarkable increment in transcriptional activity associated with a segment between bases -54 to -45 (5' GCTCCGCCTC 3') relative to the transcriptional initiation site. Gel shift assays with competition and supershift analysis demonstrated that this segment is specifically bound by the transcription factor Sp1. A point mutation, eliminating Sp1 binding, diminished basal transcriptional activity by 80%, indicating that this Sp1 binding site is important for constitutive transcriptional activity. Although these studies indicate that Sp1 is required to maintain a high concentration of the H(+)-K(+)-ATPase gene in the parietal cell, its cell-type-specific expression must rely on other elements because Sp1 is a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor.


10.4081/847 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Natale ◽  
G Lazzeri ◽  
C Blandizzi ◽  
M Ferrucci ◽  
M Del Tacca

Transforming growth factor-a (TGF-a) plays an important role in both proliferation and differentiation of mucosal cells at the gastrointestinal level, including stomach, where it is constitutively produced. This study evaluated the immunohistochemical distribution of TGF-a within whole gastric mucosa in rats, through the examination of seriate sections. Each stomach was opened along the greater curvature, pinned upon a cork plate, fixed in formalin and cut in 2-mm parallel strips which were sequentially superimposed on a glass slide. Sections were immunostained for TGF-a and pictures were taken from three areas: greater and lesser curvature; mucosa lying between the two curvatures. The sections were graded on the basis of the intensity of TGF-a staining, which was scored as follows: 0) no staining; 1) weakly positive; 2) intensely positive. The percent number of immunopositive cells and a mean intensity were calculated. Gastric mucosa showed a marked immunopositivity to TGF-a, mainly in parietal cells whose cytoplasm displayed moderate to intense staining. Positive cells (and the mean intensity) of total mucosa were 15.7±6.1% (1.13±0.42). However, they were not uniformly distributed, being 26.3±1.9% (1.67±0.24) in the mucosa lying between the two curvatures, 12.4±2.5% (1.52±0.22) along the lesser curvature and 8.3±2.1% (0.31±0.17) along the greater curvature. These results show that parietal cells of rat gastric mucosa exhibit immunoreactivity to TGF-a. Considering the gastroprotective effects of this factor, its non-homogeneous distribution within different areas may be of importance in understanding the lesion pattern of gastric damage after the administration of noxious agents.


2000 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikashi Oshima ◽  
Kazuichi Okazaki ◽  
Yumi Matsushima ◽  
Mitsutaka Sawada ◽  
Tsutomu Chiba ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Helicobacter pylori is the major causative agent of chronic antral gastritis and is thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (MALToma) developing in the human stomach. The aim of this study was to clarify whether corporal autoimmune gastritis (AIG), which is known to decrease acidity due to destruction of parietal cells, predisposes mice toH. pylori infection, thereby leading to MALToma-like pathology. BALB/c mice in which AIG had been induced by thymectomy 3 days after birth (AIG mice) were used. The AIG mice were orally administered mouse-adapted H. pylori at the age of 6 weeks and were examined histologically and serologically after 2 to 12 months. The results were compared with those obtained from uninfected AIG mice and infected normal mice. Germinal centers were induced in the corpus in 57% of the H. pylori-infected AIG mice, which elicited anti-H. pylori antibody responses in association with upregulation of interleukin-4 (IL-4) mRNA. In these mice, parietal cells remained in the corpus mucosa. These findings were in contrast to those with the uninfected AIG mice: fundic gland atrophy due to disappearance of parietal cells associated with upregulation of gamma interferon, but not IL-4, mRNA and no germinal center formation in the corpus. These observations suggest that AIG alters the infectivity ofH. pylori, leading to MALToma-like follicular gastritis, at an early stage after H. pylori infection.


1998 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. A893
Author(s):  
Y. Magami ◽  
S. Kokuno ◽  
M. Furukawa ◽  
Y. Tsukioka ◽  
D. Nakayama ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony van der Ent ◽  
Tanguy Jaffré ◽  
Laurent L'Huillier ◽  
Neil Gibson ◽  
Roger D. Reeves

In the Australia–Pacific Region ultramafic outcrops are both widespread and extensive, covering thousands of km2. Soils derived from ultramafic bedrock impose edaphic challenges and are widely known to host highly distinctive floras with high levels of endemism. In the Australia–Pacific Region, the ultramafics of the island of New Caledonia are famed for harbouring 2150 species of vascular plants of which 83% are endemic. Although the ultramafic outcrops in Western Australia are also extensive and harbour 1355 taxa, only 14 species are known to be endemic or have distributions centred on ultramafics. The ultramafic outcrops in New Zealand and Tasmania are small and relatively species-poor. The ultramafic outcrops in Queensland are much larger and host 553 species of which 18 (or possibly 21) species are endemic. Although New Caledonia has a high concentration of Ni hyperaccumulator species (65), only one species from Western Australia and two species from Queensland have so far been found. No Ni hyperaccumulator species are known from Tasmania and New Zealand. Habitat destruction due to forest clearing, uncontrolled fires and nickel mining in New Caledonia impacts on the plant species restricted to ultramafic soils there. In comparison with the nearby floras of New Guinea and South-east Asia, the flora of the Australia–Pacific Region is relatively well studied through the collection of a large number of herbarium specimens. However, there is a need for studies on the evolution of plant lineages on ultramafic soils especially regarding their distinctive morphological characteristics and in relation to hyperaccumulation.


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