In somatic cells, untranslated mRNAs accumulate in cytoplasmic foci called processing bodies or P-bodies. P-bodies contain complexes that inhibit translation and stimulate mRNA deadenylation, decapping, and decay. Recently, certain P-body proteins have been found in germ granules, RNA granules specific to germ cells. We have investigated a possible connection between P-bodies and germ granules ...

Normal-mode observations of seven quiet regions, obtained by the Hinode spacecraft, are used to analyze the physical properties of granules with mean upward and downward Doppler velocity. We identify 75 146 granules from the observations with a granuledetection method. Then the granules are divided into two subsets: one with negative mean Doppler velocity (granule-upflows), and the other with p...

Fixation by osmium tetroxide and glutaraldehyde of zymogen granules isolated from rat parotid and pancreas was investigated. Protein determinations showed that osmium tetroxide caused rapid release of most of the soluble protein of the granule during fixation in buffered isotonic sucrose. Such granules when examined in the electron microscope after shadow casting appeared quite flat, indicating...

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a characteristic spice in culinary culture. This article focuses on the lack of intrinsic and contact parameters for studies discrete element tribute pepper from Hanyuan. to provide support mechanized harvesting bungeanum. The EDEM software was used establish model granules. granules, such as Three-dimensional dimension, density, Poisson’s ratio, elastic modulus, were m...

The life history of melanin and lipofuscin granules of human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) was studied in 30 human eyes spanning nine decades of life. Autofluorescent granules in the cytoplasm of eye over 30 years of age were shown, ultrastructurally and through lipid solvent extraction, to be lipofuscin granules. Sparse small fluorescent granules in infant eyes were secondary lysosomes cont...

The ADP-glucose- or UDP-glucose-specific starch synthetase bound to sweet-potato (Ipomoea batatas) starch granules is localized in the granules, and the UDP-glucose-specific enzyme was solubulized by urea/pullulanase treatment of the starch granules.

We have used ultrathin cryosectioning and immunogold cytochemistry to study the position of a-granules in the endocytic and biosynthetic pathways in megakaryocytes and platelets. Morphologically, we distinguished three types of granules; so-called multivesicular bodies type I (MVB I) with internal vesicles only, granules with internal vesicles and an electron dense matrix (MVB II), and the a-gr...

Microtubules assembled in vitro were bound to purified porcine pituitary secretory granules and to isolated granule membranes. The interaction between microtubules and whole secretory granules was demonstrated by alteration in the sedimentation properties of the microtubules. Incubation of secretory granules with microtubules resulted in pelleting of microtubules which increased as a function o...

Exocrine cells are epithelial cells in which secretory granules undergo fusion with the apical plasma membrane upon secretagogue stimulation. Several apical plasma membrane proteins have been found in secretory granules in cells from pancreas and salivary glands raising the possibility that incorporation into secretory granules followed by exocytosis of the granules accounts for their insertion...

The avian oviduct is subdivided into five regions according to its function in egg formation and histological features. They are the infundibulum, albumen secreting region (magnum), isthmus, shell gland (uterus), and vagina. The epithelium of these regions consists of ciliated and nonciliated cells. In addition to secretion granules, specific to each region, in the non-ciliated cells, considera...