Autonomic nerves mediating contractility in the human graafian follicle.
Autonomic nerves mediating contractility in the human graafian follicle.
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自主神经介导人类格拉夫卵泡的收缩性。
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1975
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B. Walles
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C. Owman;N. Sjöberg;K. Svensson;B. Walles
Fluorescence histochemistry has shown that the human ovary is extensively supplied by adrenergic nerves, many of which are not associated with blood vessels and run in close contact with the follicles in a manner suggesting a local innervation (Owman, Rosengren & Sjl=o"erg,1967). Particular attention has been paid to these adrenergic nerves since it became established by electron microscopy that the theca externa of the follicle contains smooth muscle cells (Okamura, Virutamasen, Wright & Wallach, 1972). In order to elucidate whether the smooth musculature is involved in the contractility of the Graafian follicle, and whether neurogenic mechanisms can influence this function, a study was performed on material obtained from 32p=m-48-year-oldpatients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy because of pains, bleeding, uterine myoma, or preinvasive carcinoma of the cervix. The follicles were dissected out, transported to the laboratory in ice-cold Krebs-Ringer solution (15 min), sectioned without previous fixation at 30 g=mm in a Vibratome at 0s=degC and further processed according to the glyoxylic acid histofluorescence method for sensitive visualiza¬ tion of adrenergic nerves (Lindvall & Bjl=o"
klund, 1974). Green-fluorescent adrenergic nerve terminals, running in an essentially meridional fashion, were found in the wall of the whole Graafian follicle (PI. 1, Fig. 1) except for the most attenuated apex region. Away from the apex, the number of non-vascular nerve terminals increased and was highest in the intra-ovarian part of the follicle. Adrenergic nerves were also demonstrated by electron microscopy in follicular material first incubated for 30 min in a Krebsp=m-Ringer buffer solution containing 100 g=mg of the false adrenergic transmitter, 5-hydroxydopamine/ml, and subsequently fixed in 3% KMn04 (Hökfelt, 1968). With this treatment the adrenergic terminals become selectively marked and are distinguished by the presence of numerous dense-cored vesicles, approximately 50 nm in diameter. Such terminals, often running in small bundles partly enclosed by a Schwann cell, were seen to approach smooth muscle cells to within about 100 nm (PI. 2, Fig. 3). Occasionally, naked-axon varicosities were found only 20 nm from the membrane of a muscle cell (PL 2, Fig. 4), indicating the possibility for functional neuro-effector relations. A smaller number of nerve terminals was also found with exclusively agranular 50 nm vesicles, and these axons were also found in close apposition (20 nm) with smooth muscle cells (PI. 2, Fig. 5). Such non-adrenergic nerves are probably identical with the acetylcholinesterasecontaining fibres that were seen by light microscopy (PI. 1, Fig. 2) in tissues