PMID: 3744899Jan 1, 1986Paper

Ultracytochemical localization and microprobe quantitation of calcium stores in the insect oocyte

Histochemistry
A PrzełeckaA G Pogorelov

Abstract

Detection of calcium in the follicles of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera) was performed using two cytochemical methods. Calcium precipitation was obtained either with ammonium oxalate (AO) or with N,N-naphtaloylhydroxylamine (NHA). In both cases the X-ray "on line" analysis monitored the presence of calcium in the oocytes, which was correlated with the accumulation of yolk spheres. Concentration of calcium in oocytes filled with yolk and treated with AO amounted to 9 mmoles per 1,000 g tissue wet weight. This value is similar to that calculated previously for follicles untreated with any reagent and prepared for the analysis by the freeze-drying technique (Przeļecka et al. 1980). Examination of the ultrastructure of oocytes treated with NHA revealed calcium precipitate at the follicular epithelium/oocyte interface, in endocytotic canaliculi and vesicles formed by the oocyte plasma membrane, in ooplasm, and in yolk spheres. In oocytes treated with AO, the calcium-precipitate intermingled with the precipitate produced by the osmium alone. The presumed cause of this phenomenon is discussed.

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