Acta morphologica Hungarica最新文献

The distribution of several neuropeptides in subepicardial atrial ganglia was examined in the rat heart by using immunohistochemical techniques. Some of the ganglion cells in the right atrium exhibited neuropeptide Y-immunoreactivity while no immunostaining was found with antisera against atrial natriuretic polypeptide (ANF), substance P, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Nerve fibers in and around the ganglia showed neuropeptide Y, calcitonin gene-related peptide and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide immunoreactivities. Some of these immunoreactive fibers (substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, neuropeptide Y) formed relatively dense networks around blood vessels and capillaries. Atrial natriuretic polypeptide-like immunoreactivity which was present in atrial myocytes failed to show up in any neuronal elements in the rat heart.

The case of a 27-year-old female patient presenting with a Wilms' tumour is reported. The tumour was dominantly of blastemal type showing minor epithelial (tubular) areas and anaplastic portions. Thorough immunohistochemical examinations were performed to solve differential diagnostic problems. Keratin positivity was found to be of differential diagnostic value in the distinction of this tumour from the so called small round cell tumours. Prognostic aspects of Wilms' tumour are also discussed.

The topography of the developing epidural ligaments in man was investigated by dissecting 12 fetuses ranging from 60-310 mm in CR length. It was found that in a 60 mm CR length fetus, the epidural space is occupied by an ubiquitous connective tissue which in longer fetuses becomes reduced into topographical structures. Posterior, lateral and anterior ligaments could be identified. The atlantodural and the sacral ligaments appear to be permanent ligaments anchoring the dural sac, whereas most of the dorsal ligaments become resorbed during the development of the fetus. These ligaments may be responsible for the compression of the nerve root that occurs when the dural sleeve and the contained nerve root are stretched over a protrusion (e.g. a protruded disc).

Here we report on the results of histopathological analysis of several organs of 5 foetuses and 2 newborn infants with cystic fibrosis. They were examined with HE, PAS, AB, HID and "Stains-all" techniques on paraffin sections. We concluded that there were significant differences in the epithelial mucin composition of several organs of the effected foetuses compared to 6 controls as early as the 17th week of gestation. An increase in the amount of neutral and acidic mucins was observed in the acini of the pancreas, bronchi and the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract accompanied with a well defined decrease of sialic acid rich components of pharyngeal submucosal glands.

The modern anatomical-pathological approach in the evaluation of congenital abnormalities (isolate: single, complex, polytopic field defect, sequence and multiple: syndrome, association, random combination) is shown. Due to the population-based Hungarian Congenital Malformation Registry a number of new congenital abnormality entities were described.

The ultrastructure of pancreatic light and clear endocrine cells in normal and transplanted tissue fragments in the anterior eye-chamber of rats was described by electron microscopy. Compared to the dark cells, the light cells contain a conspicuously poorly stained cytoplasmic ground substance with varying number of rough endoplasmic reticulum cisterns and secretory granules. The quantities of these two organelles are inversely proportional to each other. "Light" alpha, beta, delta and pancreatic polypeptide cell-types were identified in normal and transplanted tissue. Out of these, the light alpha cell is the most commonly occurring. The "clear" endocrine cells are much fewer in number than the light cells. They contain well stained cytoplasm with numerous low electron density vesicles and few secretory granules. There is no ultrastructural difference between the light and clear cells in normal and in transplanted tissue for 77 and 534 days. The occurrence of light and clear cells in the transplanted tissue shows that these transplants behave morphologically like normal tissue. These cell types might be related to the different stages of secretory granule synthesis and maturation.

The clinical features and pathological findings of a patient with myelinoclastic diffuse sclerosis, corresponding to those described by Schilder in 1912, are reported. The course of the disease, having lasted for ten years, was interrupted by periods of partial remissions. Peripheral nerve involvement was also found.

A post-traumatic pancreas cyst is described in a 16-year-old young man causing symptoms only 13 years after the accident. The formation of the cyst happened on an ischaemic basis. In classical terms this cyst is a transitional form between real cysts and pseudocysts of the pancreas.