PMID: 2505443Jan 1, 1989Paper

Storage and degradation of secretory proteins in adenomatous and secondary hyperplastic parathyroid cells. An immunoelectron microscope study

Virchows Archiv. A, Pathological Anatomy and Histopathology
G BergerJ L Vauzelle

Abstract

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and chromogranin A/secretory protein-I (SP-I) have been localized on immunoelectron microscopy in double-fixed tissues from adenomatous and secondary hyperplastic parathyroid glands. Storage organelles, identified on the basis of their consistent labelling, included tow morphologically distinct varieties of granules/vesicles; the mature granules and the progranules. The former consisted of dense, mostly rounded, medium to large-sized bodies which were strongly labelled and predominant in the proximity of the cell membrane. The other variety of body included a spectrum of small pale vesicles/granules which were mainly located in the Golgi area. Because their morphology and their labelling pattern varied other bodies were assumed to be engaged in degradation or cleavage of the secretory proteins. These bodies comprised crinophagic structures, that is to say multivesicular bodies and large Golgi-related vesicles, as well as a number of atypical solid bodies. Whereas most of the granulated cells stored a mature or a maturing population of vesicles/granules, the process of maturation appeared to be either absent or incomplete in a number of cells from some glands. The major defects were frequently associate...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1993·Ultrastructural Pathology·M M SilverS S Hearn
Oct 1, 1995·Microscopy Research and Technique·T SetogutiP Wild

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