• Applied Microscopy
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.31-46
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• 1997

Ultrastructure of mouse thymus was evaluated, following the administration of potassium dichromate and mercuric chloride, the heavy metals of evironmental pollutants. Potassium dichromate (20 mg/kg) or mercuric chloride solutions (10 mg/kg) were subcutanously injected to the mice. Six hours, three days and two weeks after the injections, animals were sacrificed. Thymic tissues were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde-1.5% paraformaldehyde solutions. The procedure was followed by the fixation in 1% osmium tetroxide solutions. Washed and dehydrated tissue-blocks were embedded in the araldite mixture. Ultra-thin sections were stained with uranyl acetate-lead citrate solutions. Results observed were as follows: 1. In electron microscopy, cortical population of thymocytes in the thymus of experimental groups were reduced. especially in the outer cortex. Subcapsular cortices of potassium dichromate treated mice were filled with many epithelial reticular cells, whereas the similar area of mercuric chloride-treated mice exhibited large intercellular spaces. 2. In the thymus of mercuric chloride treated group, large intercellular spaces were formed by shrinkage of epithelial reticular cells, and the space was invaded by numerous cytoplasmic projections of macrophages. Thymocytes nuded out from the shrunken cytoplasm of epithelial reticular cells, presented numerous microvilli. 3. In the thymus of potassium dicromate treated group, many activated macrophages and plasma cells migrated into thymic cortices. 4. In the perivascular spaces of thymic cortices of potassium dichromate- and mercuric chloride-treated mice, activated macrophages. plasma cells, collagen fibrils, and flocculent substance of exudated materials were exhibited. From the above findifgs, it was concluded that potassium dichromate or mercuric chloride could disturb the normal differentiation or 'education' of T cells in the thymic cortex. In turn, these heavy metals may hurt the immunological defense mechanism.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.7-17
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• 1982

The purpose of this study was to investigate the fine structural modifications of fibroblasts in the coronal region of inflamed human pulps from carious teeth. Six untreated human teeth with large carious lesions and two normal teeth as control were selected from male and female patients between the ages of 20 and 39. The teeth were divided into 4 groups by light microscopic findings: the normal control group, the chronic inflammatory cell-appeared group, the acute and chronic inflammatory cell-appeared group, and the total necrosis group. All tissues were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M sodium cacodylate buffer at pH 7.4 and 1% osmic acid in same buffer. They were embedded in Epon 812. The ultrathin sections were stained conventionally and examined with a AEI Corynth 500 electron microscope. The results were as follows; 1. The fibroblasts of the normal pulps were almost in a quiescent state. 2. The active and the quiescent fibroblasts were found in the pulps of the chronic inflammatory cell-appeared group. Lymphocytes and plasma cells were also seen scattered among these fibroblasts. 3. In the pulps of the acute and chronic inflammatory cell-appeared group, active, degenerative and necrotic fibroblasts were found in the PMN appeared area. And all the fibroblasts in the fibrosis area were active. In the area of chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration, almost all the fibroblasts were active, but seldom were quiescent fibroblasts observed. Some fibroblasts in the pulps of two teeth had large vacuoles that contained banded collagen fibrils. The phagosomes had small beaded vesicles or large lysosome-like varicosity. In two of the teeth, microorganisms were present and two morphological shapes were identified, a rod and a coccus. 4. Vacuolar, vesicular, lamellar, fibrous and myelin structures were observed in the pulp of the total necrosis group, and cocci were also seen.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.207-214
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• 2012

Burns are one of the most devastating forms of trauma and wound healing is a complex and multicellular process, which is executed and regulated by signaling networks involving numerous growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines. Recombinant human granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) was specifically produced from rice cell culture through use of a recombinant technique in our laboratory. The effect of rhGM-CSF on promotion of deep second-degree burn wound healing on the back skin of a hamster model was evaluated through a randomized and double-blind trial. As macroscopic results, hamster skins of the experimental groups showed earlier recovery by new epidermis than the control groups. Immunohistochemical reactions of proliferating cell nuclear antigen and transforming growth factor-b1, which are indicators of cell proliferation, were more active in the experimental group, compared with the control group. On electron microscopy, basal cells in the epidermis of the experimental group showed oval nuclei, prominent nucleoli, numerous mitochondria and abundant free ribosomes. In addition, fibroblasts contained well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum with dilated cisternae. Bundles of collagen fibrils filled the extracellular spaces. Particularly, ultrastructural features indicating active metabolism for regeneration of injured skin at 15 days after burn injury, including abundant euchromatin, plentiful free ribosomes, and numerous mitochondria, were observed. These findings suggest that use of rhGM-CSF could result in accelerated deep second-degree burn wound healing in animal models.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.63-79
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• 1993

To repair bony defects with tansplanted bone in the body, fresh autogenous bone is undoubtly, the most effective bone graft for clinical applications. But the demineralized bone has the matrix-induced bone formation which was suggested by Urist in 1965. Many authors assisted that demineralized bone powder induces phenotypic conversion of mesenchymal cells into osteoblasts, with high-density bone formation. The process of inducing differentiated cells becomes osteogenic properties. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the osteoinductive capacity of allogenic freeze-dried demineralized bone block (FDD, $7{\times}7mm$) and to compare FDD with the same sue of deep-frozen allogenic bone(DF), fresh autogenous bone (A) after implantation. The histological and ultrastructural features of tissue responses were examined after 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks implantation of each experimental groups in the operative site of the New Zealand white rabbits. The results were as follows : 1. Inflammatory cell infiltration generally has appeared at 1 week, but reduced at 4 weeks in each group, but most severe in DF group. 2. Osteoblastic activity has increased for 4 weeks, but decreased at 6 weeks in each group and there was no significant difference among experimental groups. 3. New bone formation has begun at 1week, least activations in A groups, and showed the revesal line of bone formation among each group at 6 to 8 weeks. 4. Bone resorption has appeared at 1 week, but disappeared at 4 weeks in both A and DF groups, but more severe in DF than A groups. 5. In ultrastructural changs, the DF group have showed the most remarkable osteoclastic activities among experimental groups. 6. Osteoid or tangled collagen fibrils near the implanted sites were replaced by more mature, lamellated bony trabeculae during bone remodeling. There was little difference among each experimental groups. 7. During the convertion osteoblasts to osteocytes which embedded within the bone matrix, there was organ-less-poor cytoplasm, increased nuclear chromatin, abundant rough endothelial reticulum (RER) in each groups. From the above the findings, the DF group shored more bone resorption and foreign body reaction than FDD and A groups, and FDD group showed more new bone formation or osteoblastic activity than DF and A groups in early stage. There was no significant difference of cellular activities among the FDD DF, and A groups according to the time.

• 대한관절경학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2001

목적 : 신선 동결 아킬레스 동종건을 이용한 전방 십자 인대 재건술 후 1년 추시상 임상적 결과와 2차 관절경 및 조직학적 소견을 조사하여 동종건의 유용성을 살펴보았다. 대상 및 방법 : 추시 가능한 58면 59예를 대상으로 주. 객관적 지표 Telos stress arthrometer, modified Feagin Scoring System을 이용 분석하였다. 평균 연령 및 추시 기간은 25세($18\~49$세), 15개월($12\~19$개월)이었다. 이중 16명을 대상으로 2차 관절경 소견을 확인하고 광학현미경 및 전자 현미경을 이용하여 조직 검사를 하였다. 결과 : Lysholm Score는 술 전 60점에서 88.2점, 전방 전위는 술 전 7.1mm에서 술 후 2.3mm로 향상되었다. 2차 관절경적 육안적 소견은 정상 인대와 비슷한 두께와 긴장상태를 보였으며 골성 조직과의 연결부에서 혈관 재형성을 보이고 있었다. 조직학적 소견은 광학 현미경 소견상 정상 인대와 비슷한 세포 밀집도를 보였으며, 전자 현미경 소견상 콜라겐 섬유는 종적으로 평행한 배열을 보이고 횡 단면상 정상 조직과 유사한 단일 형태의 직경을 보였다. 결론 : 신선 동결 동종 아킬레스건은 임상적 결과와 조직학적 소견들로 보아 자가건의 대치건으로서 사용이 충분할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.93-101
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• 1998

본 연구는 발생과정에 따른 흰쥐 각막의 변화를 주사 및 투과형 전자현미경으로 관찰하였다. 생후 1일된 안검이 개검되지 않은 흰쥐의 각막 60안, 생후 10주된 성체 흰쥐의 각막 40안을 적출하여 각막의 변화를 비교 연구 하였다. 연령증가에 따라 각막의 미세구조의 변화가 나타났으며 각막의 상피는 오각형의 모양이며, 세포간 경계는 분명하였으나 성장할수록 탈락세포는 짙은 전자밀도를 나타냈으며, 새로 생성된 세포는 밝은 전자밀도를 나타내어 명암의 차이가 뚜렷하였다. 보우만층은 연령의 증가에 따라 콜라겐섬유가 불균질한 구조에서 균질한 구조로 변화하였다. 실질층의 각막세포는 세포 소기관의 밀도가 성체로 갈수록 감소하였고, 콜라겐층은 연령증가에 따라 종횡으로 평행배열을 나타내었다. 데스멧층은 성체로 갈수록 "banded layer"에서 "non-banded layer"의 형태로 변화하였으며 층의 두께가 현저히 두꺼워진것이 관찰되었다. 내피층은 단층으로 구성되어 있으며, 성체로 갈수록 내피 세포수는 감소하는 반면 감소된 세포수의 자리는 세포 크기가 확대됨으로써 보상되었다.

• Archives of Reconstructive Microsurgery
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 1997

A peripheral nerve when approximation of the ends imparts tension at the anastomosis and with a relatively long segment defect after excision of neuroma and neurofibroma cannnot be repaired by early primary suture. The one of the optimistic reconstruction method of severed peripheral nerves is to restore tension-free continuity at the repair site putting an autogenous nerve graft into the neural gap despite of ancipating motor or sensory deficit of the donor nerve area. To overcome the deficit of the autogenous nerve graft, several other conduits supplying a metabolically active environment which is able to support axon regeneration and progression, providing protection against scar invasion, and guiding the regrowing axons to the distal stump of the nerve have been studied. An author have used ipsilateral femoral vein, ipsilateral femoral vein filled with fresh thigh muscle, and autogenous sciatic nerve for the sciatic nerve defect of around 10 mm in length to observe the regeneration pattern in rat by light and electron microscopy. The results were as follows. 1. Light microscopically regeneration pattern of nerve fibers in the autogenous graft group was more abundant than vein graft and vein filled with muscle group. 2. On ultrastructural findings, the proxial end of the graft in various groups showed similar regenerating features of the axons, myelin sheaths, and Schwann cells. The fascicular arrangement of the myelinated and unmyelinated fibers was same regardless of the type of conduits. There were more or less increasing tendency in the number and the diameter of myelinated fibers correlated with the regeneration time. 3. In the middle of the graft, myelinated nerve fibers of vein filled with muscle group were more in number and myelin sheath was thinner than in the venous graft, but the number of regenerating axons in autogenous nerve graft was superior to that in both groups of the graft. The amount of collagen fibrils and amorphous materials in the endoneurial space was increased to elapsed time. 4. There was no difference in regenerating patterns of the nerve fibers of distal end of the graft. The size and shape of the myelinated nerve fbers were more different than that of proximal and middle portion of the graft. From the above results, the degree of myelination and regenerating activity in autogenous nerve is more effective and active in other types of the graft and there were no morphological differences in either ends of the graft regardless of regeneration time.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.225-234
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• 1997

Vincristine, a kind of anticancerous drugs, interferes with development of microtubles and synthesis of nucleic acid and proteins in cells, and destructs cytoplasmic membrane so that mitosis of cancer cells is inhibited. Unfortunately these anticancerous effects by vioneristime are not limited to specific cancer cells, so several side effects are produced. This study was performed to explore the effects of vincristine on the fine structure of cytoplasmic organelles and cartilagenous matrix in proximal epiphyseal plate of the tibia in rat. The results were as follows: 1. Cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) were fragmented and sacculated, and membrane-bound ribocomes of RER were detached at 3 and 6 hours after vincristine treatment. Severely dilated, fagmented and sacculated cisternae of RER were found at 12 hours after vincristine treatment, and at 24 hours after vincristine treatment a few cisternae were framented and sacculated. At 72 hours after vincristine treatment cisternae of RER were parallely well arraged. 2. Golgi complex was atrophied at 3, 6, and 12 hours after vincristine treatment, while at 72 hours after vincristine treatment the cisternae of Golgi complex were made of 5-6 layers. 3. Mitochondria with disorganized mitochondrial cristae and outer membrane-losed mitochondria were found at 3 hours after vincristine treatment. At 6 and 12 hours after vincristine treatment mitochondria had possessed disorganized cristae, and a few mitochondria with disorganized cristae were. observed at 24 hours after vincristine treatment. While at 72 hours after vincristine treatment mitochondria were shown distinct cristae and double membranes. 4. Phagosome were begun to observe at 3 hourse after vincristine treatment, and at 24 hourse after vincristine treatment many phagosomes were found, while at 72 hours after vincristine treatment a few phagosomes were observed. 5. In the cartilagenous matrix large-sized matrix granules were decreased and collagen fibrils were dispersed at 3, 6, and 12 hours after vincristine treatment, while at 72 hours after vincristine treatment many large-sized matrix granules and numerous matrix it is suggested that although vincristine may induce the degenerative changes of the chondrocyte, resulting in changes of components of the cartilagenous matirx, these toxic effects may be regressed with time.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1987

The present study was carried out to examine the effect of a calcinogen, aflatoxin B1 on the ultrastructural changes of ciliary epithelial cells in mice infected with Clonerchis sinensis. A total of 93 male albino mice(BALB/c strain) was divided into 3 groups; group I, treated with 1.0 ppm aflatoxin Bl for 12 weeks; group II, given 50 C. sinensis n;etacercariae, and group III, given 50 metacercariae and treated with 1.0 ppm aflatoxin Bl for 12 weeks. Three mice served for untreated-uninfected controls. From 4 weeks after the treatsment and/or in(ection, three mice from each group were sacrificed at 4 week intervals up to the 40th week, and their hepatobiliary tissues were prepared for transmission electron microscopy. The most prominent ultrastructural changes in group I were remarkable enlargement of nuclear size, separation of nucleolus, dispersed chromatin granules in nuclei and increased dense granules along the inner membrane of nuclei. In the cytoplasm there was slight proliferation of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) at earlier stage. At the 12th week separation of fibrillar and granular components of the nucleolus was a characteristic finding. As the time elapsed, epithelial cells showed fiattened-cuboidal form and a tendency of atrophy. Most of the nuclei were elongated and polygonal in shape. In group II the appearance of elaborate interwoven folds of lateral cytoplasm forming a labyrinth of interconnected intercellular space and variety in nuclear shape were the prominent fadings at earlier stage. The cytoplasm showed slight proliferation and dilatation of mitochondria and ER, and a small number of mucin droplets. In the basement membrane scanty fibrous cells were seen. With time, variety in nuclear shape, marked proliferation and dilatation of rough ER and some collagen fibrils were demonstrated. Other features of intracellular organelles and mucin droplets persisted. In group III cuboidal epithelial cells showed their remarkably enlarged and irregular nuclei, increased chromatin granules in the nuclei, separated nucleoli, proliferated and dilated rough ER. With time, sequestered mitochondria showed blob-like evaginations which lacked cristae and dense matrix, and were limited by a single membrane. Since the 20th week, microvilli were relatively scanty and poorly developed. Organelles and inclusions in the cytoplasm of metaplastic cells were poor. Nuclei were variable in shape. The nlost prominent changes at later stage were separation of nuclei from the cytoplasm, and appearance of numerous and irregularly angled electron dense granules in the nuclei.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2007

치근 우식증은 복합적인 요인에 의해 발생되는 질환으로 고령 인구의 증가로 최근 증가추세에 있으나 아직까지는 병소 깊이, 상아질 탈회의 정도 및 양상, collagen의 파괴 정도 및 수산화인회석 결정 변화에 대한 탈회 완충액의 조직학적 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 본 연구는 우식 형성에 영향을 주는 산 완충용액 내의 pH와 유산의 농도변화에 따른 치근 상아질 우식 병소의 진행에 미치는 변화를 편광현미경을 이용하여 관찰하고 관찰된 우식 병소층의 수산화인회석의 결정 형태 변화를 주사전자현미경으로 관찰하여 탈회 과정을 살펴보고자 세 가지 pH (4.3, 5.0, 5.5)군과 각각의 pH군에 세 가지 유산의 농도 (25mM, 50 mM, 100 mM)를 이용하여 인공치근 우식을 형성한 후 비교 분석하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 편광현미경 소견에서 우식 병소의 깊이는 pH보다는 유산의 농도에 의해 더 영향을 많이 받았다. 2. 주사전자현미경 소견에서 유산의 농도가 높아질수록 그리고 pH가 낮아질수록 수산화인회석 결정의 소실이 더 많이 진행되었다. 3. 탈회는 수산화인회석 결정의 변연부가 소실되며 결정 cluster내 결정의 숫자 및 크기가 감소하였고 결정 cluster 사이의 간격이 넓어지는 양상으로 관찰되었다. 4. 표면층에서의 주사전자현미경 관찰 시 유산의 농도가 높아질록 수산화인회석 결정 cluster의 형태는 소실되고 콜라겐 섬유 표면에 수산화인회석 결정의 용해, 재결합된 양상으로 관찰되었다. 5. 탈회 과정에 대한 주사전자현미경 관찰 시 상아질의 탈회는 단순히 탈회만 독립적으로 일어나는 과정이 아닌 탈회와 재광화가 동시에 일어나는 양상으로 관찰되었다. 이상의 결과 산 완충용액 내의 유산의 농도가 높아지고 pH가 낮아질수록 탈회의 속도가 증가하고 탈회의 과정은 수산화인회석 결정 cluster의 표면으로부터 진행되며 시간이 경과함에 따라 수산화인회석 결정의 형태는 원형 또는 타원형에서 불규칙한 형태로 변화되었다.