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Int. j. morphol ; 31(4): 1205-1209, Dec. 2013. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-702294

ABSTRACT

A partir de 10 ratas hembras con un peso aproximado de 250 g y 4 meses de vida, fueron obtenidas quirúrgicamente muestras de glándula parótida las que se trataron con técnicas de microscopía electrónica de transmisión para posteriormente obtener microfotografías de células parotideas con aumentos finales de hasta 21300 X. En las citadas microfotografías se aplicaron técnicas morfométricas con el objetivo de cuantificar las fracciones volumétricas que los distintos componentes ocupan en estas células normales, describiendo de esta manera sus volúmenes y relacionándolos con la funcionalidad que desempeñan en esta célula normal. Se evaluaron las fracciones volumétricas pertenecientes a: citoplasma, núcleo, mitocondrias, retículo endoplasmático rugoso (RER), gránulos de zimógeno, eu y heterocromatina. De igual forma, se cuantificó las áreas celulares y nucleares. Contando con los datos numéricos producto de la evaluación morfométrica de sus componentes se podrá determinar el patrón de distribución de sus organelos y de funcionalidad de esta célula activa en la síntesis y secreción de proteínas representada por los gránulos de zimógeno de diastasa y diversas proteínas salivales.


From 10 female rats weighing approximately 250 g and aged 4 months, samples of parotid gland were obtained surgically which were treated with transmission electronic microscopy in order to obtain microphotographs with final increases of up to 21,300 X. Morphometric techniques were applied to these microphotographs to quantify the volumetric fractions that the different components occupy in these normal cells, thus describing their volumes and relating them to their functionality in this normal cell. Volumetric fractions were evaluated pertaining to: cytoplasm, nucleus, mitochondria, rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), zymogen granules, eu and heterochromatin. Likewise, cell and nuclear areas were quantified. With the numerical data from the morphometric evaluation of its components, it was possible to determine the distribution pattern of the organelles and functionality of this cell active in protein synthesis and secretion represented by diastase zymogen granules and various salivary proteins.


Subject(s)
Animals , Female , Rats , Parotid Gland/cytology , Parotid Gland/ultrastructure , Acinar Cells , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
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Clinics ; 66(9): 1605-1610, 2011. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-604301

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of antidepressants and pilocarpine on the quantity of myoepithelial cells and on the proliferation index of the epithelial cells of rat parotid glands. INTRODUCTION: Hyposalivation, xerostomia, and alterations in saliva composition are important clinical side effects related to the use of antidepressants. METHODS: Ninety male Wistar rats were allocated to nine groups. The control groups received saline for 30 (group C30) or 60 days (group C60) or pilocarpine for 60 days (group Pilo). The experimental groups were administered fluoxetine (group F30) or venlafaxine for 30 days (group V30); fluoxetine (group FS60) or venlafaxine (group VS60) with saline for 60 days; or fluoxetine (group FP60) or venlafaxine (group VP60) with pilocarpine for 60 days. Parotid gland specimens were processed, and the immunohistochemical expression of calponin and proliferating cell nuclear anti-antigen on the myoepithelial and parenchymal cells, respectively, was evaluated. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey HSD and Games-Howell tests were applied to detect differences among groups (p<0.05). RESULTS: Compared with the controls, chronic exposure to antidepressants was associated with an increase in the number of positively stained cells for calponin. In addition, venlafaxine administration for 30 days was associated with an increase in the number of positively stained cells for proliferating cell nuclear anti-antigen. Fluoxetine and pilocarpine (group FP60) induced a significant decrease in the number of positively stained cells for calponin compared with all other groups. CONCLUSIONS: The number of positively stained cells for calponin increased after chronic administration of antidepressants. The proliferation index of the epithelial cells of rat parotid glands was not altered by the use of antidepressants for 60 days.


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Rats , Antidepressive Agents/pharmacology , Calcium-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Epithelial Cells/drug effects , Microfilament Proteins/metabolism , Parotid Gland/drug effects , Pilocarpine/pharmacology , Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen/metabolism , Analysis of Variance , Cell Proliferation/drug effects , Cyclohexanols/pharmacology , Epithelial Cells/metabolism , Epithelial Cells/pathology , Fluoxetine/pharmacology , Muscarinic Agonists/pharmacology , Parotid Gland/cytology , Parotid Gland/metabolism , Random Allocation , Rats, Wistar , Time Factors
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Yonsei Medical Journal ; : 526-530, 2007.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-71485

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: In non-excitable cells, which include parotid and pancreatic acinar cells, Ca(2+) entry is triggered via a mechanism known as capacitative Ca(2+) entry, or store-operated Ca(2+) entry. This process is initiated by the perception of the filling state of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the depletion of internal Ca(2+) stores, which acts as an important factor triggering Ca(2+) entry. However, both the mechanism of store-mediated Ca(2+) entry and the molecular identity of store-operated Ca(2+) channel (SOCC) remain uncertain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the present study we investigated the Ca(2+) entry initiation site evoked by depletion of ER to identify the localization of SOCC in mouse parotid and pancreatic acinar cells with microfluorometeric imaging system. RESULTS: Treatment with thapsigargin (Tg), an inhibitor of sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase, in an extracellular Ca(2+) free state, and subsequent exposure to a high external calcium state evoked Ca(2+) entry, while treatment with lanthanum, a non-specific blocker of plasma Ca(2+) channel, completely blocked Tg-induced Ca(2+) entry. Microfluorometric imaging showed that Tg-induced Ca(2+) entry started at a basal membrane, not a apical membrane. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that Ca2+ entry by depletion of the ER initiates at the basal pole in polarized exocrine cells and may help to characterize the nature of SOCC.


Subject(s)
Animals , Mice , Calcium/metabolism , Calcium Channels/drug effects , Cells, Cultured , Endoplasmic Reticulum/drug effects , Mice, Inbred ICR , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Pancreas/cytology , Parotid Gland/cytology , Thapsigargin/pharmacology
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Braz. oral res ; 20(1): 13-20, Jan.-Mar. 2006. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-427552

ABSTRACT

O crescimento das glândulas parótidas do camundongo durante 7 e 35 dias de vida pós-natal foi estudado por métodos morfométricos. A massa glandular, o volume de cada compartimento morfológico e o número de células em cada compartimento foram avaliados. Os dados obtidos para cada dimensão avaliada foram ajustados por equação exponencial, tipo Y = a.ek.x, permitindo o cálculo do seu tempo de duplicação médio (TD), ou seja, uma estimativa da sua velocidade de crescimento. A análise dos resultados mostrou a ocorrência de um marcante aumento de massa glandular no período estudado de 1.424%, com TD = 7,10 dias. Esse crescimento glandular ocorreu por aumentos nos volumes absolutos dos ácinos, dos ductos intercalares, dos ductos estriados, dos ductos excretores e do estroma, com aumentos percentuais de, respectivamente, 3.048%, 417%, 2.662%, 2.594% e 367%, e TDs de 5,62, 11,71, 5,55, 5,47 e 14,45 dias. A análise da evolução do número de células em cada compartimento demonstrou aumentos de, respectivamente, 1.904%, 285%, 1.228%, 1.090% e 286% e TDs de 6,62, 20,40, 7,19, 7,26 e 14,51 dias. Baseados nos resultados aqui obtidos, concluímos que o crescimento das glândulas parótidas do camundongo entre os dias 7 e 35 de idade ocorre por intenso acúmulo de células, principalmente nos ácinos e nos ductos estriados e excretores, com uma velocidade de crescimento sensivelmente maior que nos ductos intercalares e no estroma.


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Mice , Parotid Gland/growth & development , Analysis of Variance , Cell Count , Cell Size , Parotid Gland/cytology , Regression Analysis
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Yonsei Medical Journal ; : 70-77, 2006.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-116917

ABSTRACT

Synaptotagmin is a Ca2+ sensing protein, which triggers a fusion of synaptic vesicles in neuronal transmission. Little is known regarding the expression of Ca2+ - dependent synaptotagmin isoforms and their contribution to the release of secretory vesicles in mouse and rat parotid acinar cells. We investigated a type of Ca2+ - dependent synaptotagmin and Ca2+ signaling in both rat and mouse parotid acinar cells using RT-PCR, microfluorometry, and amylase assay. Mouse parotid acinar cells exhibited much more sensitive amylase release in response to muscarinic stimulation than did rat parotid acinar cells. However, transient [Ca2+]i increases and Ca2+ influx in response to muscarinic stimulation in both cells were identical, suggesting that the expression or activity of the Ca2+ sensing proteins is different. Seven Ca2+ - dependent synaptotagmins, from 1 to 7, were expressed in the mouse parotid acinar cells. However, in the rat parotid acinar cells, only synaptotagmins 1, 3, 4 and 7 were expressed. These results indicate that the expression of Ca2+ - dependent synaptotagmins may contribute to the release of secretory vesicles in parotid acinar cells.


Subject(s)
Rats , Mice , Animals , Synaptotagmins/metabolism , Signal Transduction , Protein Isoforms/metabolism , Parotid Gland/cytology , Muscarinic Agonists/pharmacology , Exocytosis/drug effects , Carbachol/pharmacology , Calcium/metabolism , Amylases/metabolism
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IJMS-Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences. 1997; 22 (1-2): 74-77
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-96063

ABSTRACT

Ewing's sarcoma can metastasize to many parts of the body, including bone, lungs, liver and lymph nodes. Metastasis to parotid gland, however, is unusual and has not been reported so far. This report describes clinical and cytological findings of Ewing's sarcoma, metastasizing to the parotid gland


Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Parotid Gland/cytology , Neoplasm Metastasis/diagnosis , Parotid Gland/pathology , Biopsy, Needle , Bone Neoplasms
7.
JPMA-Journal of Pakistan Medical Association. 1997; 47 (7): 188-190
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-45200

ABSTRACT

Over a period of two years, Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology [FNAC] was performed on 33 patients presenting with a parotid lump. Five patients were excluded as they were treated medically after FNAC report. The FNAC results of 28 cases were compared with histopathological diagnoses of surgically resected specimens. There were 8 true positive, 17 true negative, 1 false positive and 2 false negative cases. Sensitivity was 80%, specificity 94.4% and diagnostic accuracy 89.3%. FNAC is a simple quick, accurate and virtually complications free investigative modality. It is also helpful adjunct to assess preoperatively the suitability and extent of the surgical treatment


Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Parotid Gland/pathology , Biopsy, Needle , Parotid Gland/cytology , Cytological Techniques
8.
Rev. bras. ciênc. morfol ; 11(2): 142-8, jul.-dez. 1994. ilus, graf
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-162619

ABSTRACT

O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi verificar através de métodos morfométricos, a participaçao do aumento de volume celular de células acinosas no crescimento pós-natal de massa de glândulas parótidas de rato, em um período de crescimento de 1 a 10 semanas de vida pós-natal. Em cortes de O,5 mug de espessura de fragmentos de glândulas incluídas em resina Araldite determinamos o raio nuclear pelo método de Bach e a densidade de volume do núcleo e do citoplasma da célula acinosa pela volumetria relativa de pontos. A partir desses dados morfométricos primários calculamos para cada grupo etário estudado, o volume nuclear e citoplasmático e a relaçao citoplasma/núcleo das células acinosas. A análise dos resultados mostrou que: a) a densidade de volume do citoplasma da célula acinosa aumentou de O,37 aos 7 dias para O,81 aos 70 dias de idade; b) nesse mesmo período a relaçao citoplasma/núcleo aumentou de 650 por cento e; c) enquanto o volume nuclear modificou-se pouco em todo período analisado, o volunie citoplasmático aumentou sensivelmente nos períodos de 7 a 28 dias e 42 a 70 dias de vida pós-natal, respectivamente, de 365 por cento e de 94 por cento; entre 28 a 42 dias nao observou-se aumento estatisticamente significativo. Esses resultados mostraram que o aumento de volume celular de células acinosas é um evento importante no crescimento pós-natal da massa das glândulas parótidas do rato, tanto no período inicial como no tardio.


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Rats , Parotid Gland/cytology , Rats, Inbred Strains
9.
Bauru; s.n; 1989. 155 p. ilus, tab, graf.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS, BBO | ID: lil-222766

ABSTRACT

Foi estudada, a influência da ligadura do ducto principal da glândula parótida de ratos albinos, machos, adultos, de linhagem Wistar, pesando 170 a 230 g, nos períodos de 1, 7, 15, 21, 30 e 60 dias após obstruçäo, através de métodos morfológicos e morfométricos aplicados à microscopia de luz e bioquímicos de dosagem do conteúdo de proteína total e de fosfatase ácida das glandulas contralaterais dos mesmos animais. A análise morfológica demonstrou que no 1§ dia de obstruçäo, os ácinos näo apresentavam alteraçöes estruturais evidentes, apresentando forma piramidal, núcleos dispostos na porçäo basal, contendo granulaçöes citoplasmáticas. Os ductos intercalares eram poucos, sendo revestidos por tecido epitelial de células cubóides baixas; os ductos estriados apresentavam epitélio colunar alto e os ductos excretores, epitélio pseusoestratificado cilíndrico. Os dois tipos de ductos se apresentavam dilatados, circundados, em alguns casos, por células tipo neutrófilos polimorfonucleares. A partir do 7§ dia do experimento, observou-se atrofia das células acinosas e intensa infiltraçäo de macrófagos entre estas células. Os ductos estriados se apresentavam dilatados, contendo em sua luz neutrófilos polimorfonucleares. Eram raros os ductos intercalares. A cápsula e os septos interlobulares se apresentavam mais espessos e sediavam infiltrado de células monocluceares. Em alguns períodos de tempo, observaram-se alteraçöes degenerativas das células acinosas com formaçäo de vacúolos. Foram evidenciadas também áreas de colagenizaçäo envolvendo os ductos intralobulares. Nos períodos mais tardios do experimento, havia intensa atrofia dos constituintes intralobulares os quais estavam representados, basicamente, por estruturas ductiformes, sendo evidenciada substituiçäo das estruturas parenquimentosas por tecido conjuntivo fibroso...


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Adult , Rats , Acid Phosphatase/pharmacology , Parotid Gland , Proteins/pharmacology , Atrophy/physiopathology , Parotid Gland/cytology , Ligation , Salivary Ducts/surgery
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