STRUCTURE AND PERMEABILITY OF GOBLET CELL TIGHT JUNCTIONS IN RAT SMALL-INTESTINE
STRUCTURE AND PERMEABILITY OF GOBLET CELL TIGHT JUNCTIONS IN RAT SMALL-INTESTINE
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01868490
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
TRIER, JS
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作者:
MADARA, JL;TRIER, JS
Two major cell types, goblet and absorptive cells, dominate the epithelial lining of small intestinal villi. Freeze-fracture replicas of rat ileal mucosa were used to examine the possibility that tight junction structure, known to relate to transepithelial resistance, might vary with cell type. Tight junctions between absorptive cells were uniform in structure while those associated with villus goblet cells displayed structural variability. In 23% of villus goblet cell tight junctions the strand count was < 4 and in 30% the depth was < 200 nm. In contrast, only 4% of absorptive cell tight junctions had < 4 strands and only 9% had depth measurements < 200 nm. Other structural features commonly associated with villus goblet cell tight junctions but less commonly with absorptive cell tight junctions were: deficient strand cross-linking, free-ending abluminal strands and highly fragmented strands. Both in vivo ileal segments and everted loops were exposed to ionic La. Dense La precipitates in tight junctions and paracellular spaces were restricted to a subpopulation of villus goblet cells and were not found between villus absorptive cells. After exposure of prefixed ileal loops to La for 1 h, faint precipitates of La were found in 14% of tight junctions and paracellular spaces between absorptive cells compared to 42% of tight junctions and paracellular spaces adjacent to villus goblet cells. When tested in Ussing chambers, the methods used for La exposure did not lower transepithelial resistance. Everted loops exposed to ionic Ba and examined by light microscopy showed dense Ba precipitates in the junctional zone and region of the paracellular space of villus goblet cells but not in these regions between absorptive cells. The macromolecular tracers, microperoxidase, cytochrome c and horseradish peroxidase, were excluded from both villus goblet cell and absorptive cell paracellular spaces in in vivo segments. A subpopulation of villus goblet cells may serve as focal sites of high ionic permeability and contribute to the relatively low resistance to ionic flow which characterizes the small intestinal epithelium.