PMID: 9184844Apr 1, 1997Paper

Immunohistochemical identification and comparison of glial cell lineage in foetal, neonatal, adult and neoplastic human adrenal medulla

The Histochemical Journal
G Magro, S Grasso

Abstract

The differentiation of glial cells in developing, neonatal, adult and neoplastic human adrenal medulla has studied immunohistochemically. From 8 to 28 weeks' gestational age, S-100 protein and its beta-subunit revealed two different glial cell populations in adrenal glands, namely Schwann-like and sustentacular cells. Schwann-like cells were spindle-shaped cells forming a continuous layer around groups of sympathetic neuroblasts, often in contact with Schwann cells of nerve fibres entering neuroblastic groups. Sustentacular cells were round or oval cells with dendritic cytoplasmic processes; they were not associated with nerve fibres and mingled both with sympathetic neuroblasts and differentiating chromaffin cells. The developmental fate of Schwann-like cells was different from that of sustentacular cells. Schwann-like cells disappeared from the 28th week of gestational age, in association with the disappearance of sympathetic neuroblastic groups, and they were rarely found in neonatal and adult adrenal medulla. In contrast, sustentacular cells persisted between medullary chromaffin cells, and their number and dendritic cytoplasmic processes progressively increased from foetus to adult. In eight cases of primitive adrenal neur...Continue Reading

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