Further electron microscope observations of tissues from Swiss and DBA/2 mice with leukemia transmissible by cell-free filtrates to the adult animals are presented. The cytological characteristics of the leukemic cells, the fine structure of the viruses, and the virus host-cell relationships have been examined. The leukemia virus has an external diameter averaging 870 A, and appears to be forme...

Transfection of Mv1Lu mink lung type II alveolar cells with beta1-6-N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase V is associated with the expression of large lysosomal vacuoles, which are immunofluorescently labeled for the lysosomal glycoprotein lysosomal-associated membrane protein-2 and the beta1-6-branched N-glycan-specific lectin phaseolis vulgaris leucoagglutinin. By electron microscopy, the vacuoles...

Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the urethra is a rare disease entity with an uncertain histogenesis. Here, we present a case of primary clear cell adenocarcinoma of the female urethra with its cytological findings. A 54-year-old woman presented with a painless gross hematuria lasting 3 months. On vaginal sonography, there was a sausage-like, elongated mass in the urethra, measuring 3.8×4.3 cm. The...

T his peripheral blood smear is from a 72-year-old woman, taken several hours before she died of recurrent plasma cell myeloma and newly developed secondary plasma cell leukemia. Her white blood cell count increased from 39.53 10/mL to 233.2 3 10/mL in 28 hours. The peripheral blood smear shows marked leukocytosis with numerous smallto medium-sized bizarre-looking cells (95% of white blood cell...

BACKGROUND Protopanaxadiol (PPD) is a triterpenoid that can be prepared from steamed ginseng. PPD possesses anticancer potential via caspase-dependent apoptosis. Whether paraptosis, a type of the caspase-independent cell death, is also induced by PPD has not been evaluated. METHODS Cell death, the cell cycle and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) were analyzed by flow cytometry after...

Cells of the J774 mouse macrophage-like cell line possess organic anion transporter that transport fluorescent dyes such as Lucifer Yellow out of the cytoplasmic matrix of the cells; the dye is both sequestered in endosomes and secreted into the extracellular medium. Lucifer Yellow that is sequestered within endosomes is subsequently delivered to the lysosomal compartment. In the present studie...

Inclusion body myositis is a rare myopathy that clinically resembles a chronic polymyositis and histopathologically is characterized by the presence of rimmed vacuoles containing ultrastructural cytoplasmic degradation products with filamentous intranuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions. Since clinical features are not uniform, histopathologic and ultrastructural studies are necessary to confirm t...

Electron microscopic observations have been made on growing and dividing specimens of Amoeba proteus and also on starving animals. Structures presumably corresponding to the mitochondria, alpha particles, vacuoles, and Golgi material are described. A new entity, designated as a foamy particle, is noted. Descriptions are given of the cytoplasmic and nuclear membranes. During division the inner, ...


 Striking glomerular changes arc seen electron microscopically in rat kidneys after acute uranyl nitrate poisoning. More interesting than the several glomerular epithelial cell reactions to this injury, perhaps, is the development of the nodular 
 centrolobular lesion containing collagen fibers. 
 The glomerular epithelial cell changes include loss of foot processes, the appearance of dense de...

1. Structurally the "sensory bristles" in Euplotes patella are typical cilia, but no ciliary rootlets connect their bases. 2. The "neuromotor fibrils" are composed of filaments 21 mmicro in diameter. At the point of junction of the filaments with the peripheral ciliary fibrils a granular structure 65 to 90 mmicro in diameter is seen which has dense central and peripheral zones separated by a le...