introduction: morphology and ultra-structure of myoid and sertoli cells were studied in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia who were admitted to testicular sperm extraction (tese) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi), by transmission electron microscopy (tem). materials and methods: 12 biopsies of testicular tissues from patients with non-obstructive azoospermia referred to royan i...

Myoid hamartoma is an uncommon type of breast hamartoma and its recurrence is very rare. We report the imaging appearance of an unusual case of recurrent myoid hamartoma of the breast mimicking malignancy in a 43-year-old woman. Although the mammographic and ultrasonographic findings have long been described in the literature, MR finding with a dynamic study has not, to the best of our knowledg...

Tubular boundary tissue and seminiferous epithelia were evaluated stereologically in testes from 28 men aged 20 to 48 years and 28 men aged 50 to 90 years. Testes obtained at autopsy within 15 hours of death were perfused with glutaraldehyde, embedded in Epon (Ladd Research Industries, Inc., Burlington, VT), sectioned at 0.5 micron, and stained with toluidine blue. Volume densities (percentage ...

A 41-year-old female presented at the department of radiology because of multiple slowly growing lumps in both breasts. Mammography showed dense breast tissue with multiple wellcircumscribed round lesions with no calcification. At ultrasound, sharply defined, heterogeneous oval masses were seen. On T2-Weighted Images (WI), the lesions were heterogeneous and hyperintense. T1-WI after intravenous...

AIMS To clarify factor(s) involved in morphological dedifferentiation of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in vitro from mitotically quiescent hexagonal cells to flattened cells that lack epithelial characteristics and concurrent myoid differentiation. METHODS RPE cells which retained their differentiated hexagonal morphology were isolated from bovine eyes by mechanical pipetting. Dediff...

To investigate the role of thymic myoid cells in the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis (MG), mRNA of nonneoplastic thymuses from eight MG patients was analyzed by dot blot hybridization for the occurrence of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subunit transcripts, using the five AChR-subunit cDNAs (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon) as probes. Attention was particularly paid to the gamma- and ep...

Background: Spermatogenesis is under the control of variety of factors, which include mast cells. Any changes in testicular mast cells’ number and distribution resulting in deterioration of comlex regulation and fine-turning of spermatogenesis. Increased number of mast cells and their abnormal spread pattern have been described in the testis with fertility disturbances. Mast cells’ tryptase enz...

Myopericytoma is a rare benign tumour composed of pericytic cells that show myoid differentiation and have a tendency for concentric perivascular growth. It belongs to a spectrum ofperivascular myoid cell neoplasms. To date, only a small number of cases of myopericytoma involving the oral cavity have been reported. We describe a case of myopericytoma presenting as a slowly growing tongue nodule...