INTRA-CELLULAR LIPIDS OF CARTILAGE
INTRA-CELLULAR LIPIDS OF CARTILAGE
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DOI:
10.1136/ard.24.2.123
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
影响因子:
27.4
通讯作者:
MEACHIM, G
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作者:
COLLINS, DH;GHADIALLY, FN;MEACHIM, G
The morphology and distribution of intracellular lipid has been studied in hyaline cartilage from the hamster, rabbit, rat, and man. On light microscopy of oil red-0 stained frozen sections, lipid is seen in forms ranging from a single small or fine drop to many of these or to a large drop which can be much bigger than the nucleus. Electron microscopy shows a corresponding range of intracellular patterns, and indicates that each of these can occur in apparently healthy chondrocytes. In the animals studied the influence of species on the intracellular lipid pattern is less striking than that of age, the site of the sample, and the position of the chondrocyte in relation to the articular surface or the perichondrium. Often more intracellular lipid is demonstrable in a cartilage in adult life than in infancy and during the early growth period. Age differences have been noted between 2-day-old and 6-month-old hamsters, between human babies and adults, and between 800 g and 2 to 3 kg rabbits. In hyaline cartilage from adults the chondrocytes nearly all contain one or more lipid drops. In the central mass of adult costal and bronchial cartilage the cells can show drops larger than the nucleus, which they can displace to the periphery of the cell. By contrast, lipid drops of this size have not been encountered in subperichondrial or in articular chondrocytes.