ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON CORONET CELLS OF SACCUS VASCULOSUS OF FRESHWATER STICKLEBACK, GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS FORM LEIURUS
ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON CORONET CELLS OF SACCUS VASCULOSUS OF FRESHWATER STICKLEBACK, GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS FORM LEIURUS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00307255
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1974-01-01
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BENJAMIN, M
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BENJAMIN, M
EM studies on the coronet cells of the freshwater stickleback showed that the cells were characterised by abundant SER, perinuclear fibrils, microtubules, free ribosomes and mitochondria. Acid phosphatase-positive dense bodies were present, but there was no alkaline phosphatase activity nor were there any glycogen granules in the coronet cells. On the surface of the coronet cell and its globules was a layer of Ruthenium red-stainable material which almost completely disappeared when the fish were kept in 70% seawater for 1 week. Quantitative EM of fish kept in freshwater or 70% seawater for 1 week showed that the SER tubules of seawater-maintained fish had a wider lumen than those of freshwater-maintained fish. The volume occupied by the Golgi apparatus also increased but there was no change in the volume of the cytoplasm occupied by mitochondria. Both the morphology of the coronet cells and their response to 70% seawater support the hypothesis that the saccus vasculosus is an osmo(iono)regulatory structure.