Published in Acta anatomica
The retina of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) strain of rat, which is being used as an animal model for human retinal degenerations, has been employed in the study of the function of second order neurons. By about the 33rd postnatal day the dendritic branching of isolated bipolar cells is more sparse than in bipolar cells of the normal rat reti...
Published in Acta anatomica
A 33-year-old woman died of biopsy-proven adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) or Kufs' disease marked by fingerprint and curvilinear lipopigments in neural and nonneural cell types. She had never experienced visual impairment or shown electroretinographic abnormalities. At autopsy, her retina appeared intact without degeneration at the light...
Published in Acta anatomica
Glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins and glycosphingolipids exhibit multiple functions in biological systems. A correlation of functional features with defined structural parameters, however, presupposes detailed information on the glycoconjugates' carbohydrate moieties including the type of linkage of the oligosaccharide chain(s), monosaccharide ...
Published in Acta anatomica
The neuronal structures and their possible connections in the optic tectum of chicks were studied by using Golgi impregnation, in light microscopy, and Golgi-GABA immunogold staining in electron microscopy. The terminals of the optic fibers displayed different patterns and orientation in various laminae of the avian optic tectum. The shape of the b...
Published in Acta anatomica
The angle between the base of the sacrum and its pelvic surface (SA), and the lumbosacral curve (LSC) defined as the anteroposterior distance between the L1 vertebra and the sacrum were studied in 105 fresh cadavers aged 15-32 years at death. The sample is comprised of 27 black males, 20 black females, 37 white males and 21 white females. Measureme...
Published in Cells Tissues Organs
Most behaviours involve complex morphological systems and vice versa morphological systems are used by the organism in many different ways. During evolution and ontogeny changes in kinematics and function of skeletal and muscular systems must be coordinated with changes in their neural control. Neuromotor patterns are sometimes believed to be conse...
Published in Acta anatomica
The architectonical differentiation in the basolateral nuclei of the human fetal amygdala - with special reference to transient structures - was studied using series of relatively thick Nissl-stained sections. These architectonic features were correlated with the process of migration. Radial glial fibers providing the scaffold of migratory routes c...
Published in Acta anatomica
Plant lectins are easily available, fairly stable and suitable for many kinds of chemical modification. Thus, they have become important tools in glycosciences. In the present review, it is attempted to throw light upon aspects of lectinology that deal with their natural occurrence, biosynthesis, structure, binding specificities and hypotheses abou...
Published in Acta anatomica
Partial surgical stenosis of the gut induces smooth muscle cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia in the loops upstream from the obstruction in a few days. In the present study we report a quantitative evaluation of these phenomena in the circular smooth muscle layer of the small intestine of the rat 7 days after a subtotal stenosis. In the loops upstrea...
Published in Acta anatomica
Experimental and human cancers are often characterized by the presence of tumor-associated glycosphingolipid (GSL) antigens defined by monoclonal antibodies. Major progress has been made during the past two decades on structural identification of these antigens. None of these structures are truly 'tumor-specific'. However, many of the antibodies sh...
