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Säo Paulo; s.n; 1995. 79 p. ilus.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS, BBO | ID: lil-160040

ABSTRACT

Cultura primária de células derivadas do adenoma pleomórfico humano (AP2) foi estabelecida e utilizada em estudos de resposta à açäo de proteínas da matriz extra-celular (MEC). As células cultivadas foram caracterizadas como mio-epitelial símile por imunocitoquímica e microscopia eletrônica de transmissäo (MET). Células AP2 cresceram em contato com as seguintes proteínas da MEC: lamina, colágeno I, colágeno IV e membrana basal reconstituída (Matrigel). Laminina e colágenos tipos I e IV, quando aplicados individualmente, näo causaram efeito no fenótipo das células AP2. No entanto, células crescidas em Matrigel mostraram importantes alteraçöes fenotípicas, dependendo do modo de aplicaçäo do substrato. Células crescidas sobre finas camadas de Matrigel desenvolveram fenótipo estrelado, com prolongamentos delicados, longos e intercomunicantes, lembrando as células mio-epiteliais normais. Células crescidas dentro de massas de Matrigel formaram agrupamentos tri-dimensionais. Ao microscópio confocal e MET esses agrupamentos apresentaram dupla camada de células epitelióides delimitando espaços luminais. As células próximas aos lúmens eram cubóides, com vilosidades apicais e complexo juncional. Nosso trabalho forneceu uma evidência direta demonstrando que a formaçäo de estruturas luminais do adenoma pleomórfico somente ocorre quando suas células säo tri-dimensionalmente envoltas por membrana basal. Paralelamente a esse estudo, foi analisada a distribuiçäo do filamento intermediário vimentina no citoplasma de células AP2. Nessa célula, a vimentina distribui-se como filamentos pequenos, completamente segregados da rede principal. A maioria desses filamentos näo co-localiza com microtúbulos. Análise da relaçäo vimentina-microtúbulos nas células AP2 mostrou que essas estruturas somente interagem quando os filamentos de vimentina se estendem em direçäo à periferia da célula


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Adenoma/microbiology , Adenoma/physiopathology , Adenoma/ultrastructure , Salivary Gland Neoplasms/physiopathology , Salivary Gland Neoplasms/microbiology , Salivary Gland Neoplasms/ultrastructure , Cytoskeleton/microbiology , Cytoskeleton/ultrastructure , Extracellular Matrix/microbiology , Extracellular Matrix/ultrastructure , Microscopy, Electron/methods , Microtubule-Associated Proteins/pharmacokinetics , Microtubule-Associated Proteins/ultrastructure , Vimentin/pharmacokinetics , Vimentin/ultrastructure
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 27(9): 2301-8, Sept. 1994. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-144482

ABSTRACT

Athymic and euthymic mice with BALB/c background were used to study the patterns of fibrosis during ip infection with a virulent isolate of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Specimens from various organs were collected from the animals at 1,4 and 7 weeks after infection and observed under light microscopy using various histologic staining methods. Lesions from the first week of infection, in both animal groups, presented a predominance of collagen III over I, carboxylated proteoglycans, and a tendency to encapsulation. From 4 weeks onward, the lesions of nu/+mice tended to involute to macrophage-pseudoxanthomatous aggregates or to encapsulation with an increase of collagen I and sulfated proteoglycans. On the contrary, with the evolution of the infection, the nu/nu mice displayed permanently active lesions, rich in reticular fibers and carboxylated proteoglycans, with varied amounts of collagens III and I, without or with minimal encapsulation. However, independent of the type of mice, or of the type of lesions, the minimal P. brasiliensis-ECM unit was formed by a fibrillar cocoon of reticular fibers that encloses an individual yeast or a "family" composed of a mother cell plus one or various peripheral daughter cells, alone or engulfed by macrophages or giant cells. The overal difference of the lesions of nude and normal mice was not in isolated aspects of their components, but in the general architecture of the lesions. Those of nu/+mice were either of involutive or of encapsulated type (slightly active), and those of nu/nu mice were of the sustained-expansive type (very active), without or with minimal encapsulation


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Mice , Animals , Male , Paracoccidioidomycosis/pathology , Extracellular Matrix/metabolism , Extracellular Matrix/microbiology , Extracellular Matrix/parasitology , Mice, Inbred BALB C , Paracoccidioides/pathogenicity , Paracoccidioidomycosis/immunology , Paracoccidioidomycosis/metabolism , Paracoccidioidomycosis/microbiology , Extracellular Matrix Proteins/metabolism , Time Factors
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