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The authors describe relations between lamblia and the intestinal mucosa of the host and some rare ultrastructural characteristics of the parasites as revealed in a tissue specimen obtained by enterobiopsy. Lambliae were found in one clinically asymptomatic case, by using an electron microscope and optical microscope, in the intestinal lumen and intestinal mucosa.
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The histology and ultrastructure of the rat gastric mucosa were investigated during 168 hours of starvation. An increased desquamation of individual foveolar cells was found. In the preserved cells of the foveolae, the content of the PAS positive mucosubstances did not change during starvation, and no changes took place in the appearance and in the amount of the mucous granules at the electron microscopic investigation. The number of lipid droplets increased in the mucous foveolar cells within 24 and 48 hours. During starvation the mitochondria (mainly in the parietal cells) were enlarged and contained rare mitochondrial cristae. Some mitochondria were distintegrated and removed by lysosomes. The number of lysosomes (mainly cytosergresomes) was markedly increased n parietal cells. A collapse of the intracellular canaliculi occurred as well as a narrowing in the tubulovesicular profiles. In chief cells the profiles of the granular endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus were reduced. It was shown that the ultrastructural changes induced by starvation can be interpreted functionally in changed histochemical parameters of the gastric mucosa.
The ultrastructure of the human antral G cells was examined in gastrobiopsies of 7 healthy volunteers fasting 24 to 240 hours. In contrast to the animals gastric C cells during fasting, the dissolution of the substance of gastrin granules (but not emiocytosis of granules) was observed in the human antral G cells during long fasting. The authors consider the possibility of artificially inducing the dissolution of the substance of the granules only the technique of gastrobiopsy itself.
In urethral expulsions of a multipara, aged 37 years, induced by digital stimulation over a time span of almost one and a half 26-day menstrual cycle, the volume of desquamated cellular component changed, according to two nearly identical versions of cosinor, with the period of 22-27 days, with the acrophase between 17th and 23rd day of menstrual cycle and with the amplitude between 0.5 and 1.2 ml/day. The issue testifies to periodic quantitative changes in squamous cells of vaginal type in female urethra, large paraurethral ducts and trigone of the bladder during menstrual cycle, with maximal desquamation during its secretory phase. A link on stop function of urethral epithelium and thus on female miction problems is suggested.