Fine ultrastructure of chromaffin granules in rat adrenal medulla indicative of a vesicle-mediated secretory process

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-86

  Crivellato, E ^a   Guidolin, D ^c   Nico, B ^b   Nussdorfer, G G ^c   Ribatti, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromaffin granules; Osmium zinc iodide; Piecemeal degranulation; Rat; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOL; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC IODIDE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; CYTOSOL; DEGRANULATION; DENSITY; ELECTRON; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECRETORY VESICLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHROMAFFIN GRANULES; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; CYTOSOL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 29344457457     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0059-8     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Al-Lami F (1969) Light and electron microscopy of the adrenal medulla of Macaca mulatta monkey. Anat Rec 164:317-332
2. Al-Lami F, Carmichael SW (1991) Microscopic anatomy of the baboon (Papio hamadryas) adrenal medulla. J Anat 178:213-221
3. Artalejo CR, Elhamdani A, Palfrey HC (1990) Dense-core vesicles can kiss-and-run too. Curr Biol 8:R62-R65
4. Aunis D (1998) Exocytosis in chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. Int Rev Cytol 181:213-320
5. Aunis D, Langley K (1999) Physiological aspects of exocytosis in chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. Acta Physiol Scand 167:89-97
6. Brooks JC, Carmichael SW (1987) Ultrastructural demonstration of exocytosis in intact and saponin-permeabilized cultured chromaffin cells. Am J Anat 178:85-89
7. Bunn SJ, Marley PD, Livett BG (1988) The distribution of opioid binding subtypes in the bovine adrenal medulla. Neuroscience 27:1081-1094
8. Burgoyne RD (1991) Control of exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1071:174-202
9. Carmichael SW (1987) Morphology and innervation of the adrenal medulla. In: Rosenheck K, Lelkes PI (eds) Stimulus-secretion coupling in chromaffin cells. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 1-29
10. Carmichael SW, Brooks JC, Malhotra RK, Wakade TD, Wakade AR (1989) Ultrastructural demonstration of exocytosis in the intact rat adrenal medulla. J Electron Microsc Technol 12:316-322
11. Champy C (1913) Granules et substances réduisant l'iodure d'osmium. J Anat (Paris) 49:323-343
12. Choi AY, Cahill AL, Perry BD, Perlman RL (1993) Histamine evokes greater increases in phosphatidylinositol metabolism and catecholamine secretion in epinephrine-containing than in norepinephrine-containing chromaffin cells. J Neurochem 61:541-549
13. Coggeshall RE, Lekan HA (1996) Methods for determining number of cells and synapses: a case for more uniform standards of reviews. J Comp Neurol 364:6-15
14. Coupland RE (1965a) The natural history of the chromaffin cells. Longmans, London
15. Coupland RE (1965b) Electron microscopic observations on the structure of the rat adrenal medulla. I. The ultrastructure and organization of chromaffin cells in the normal adrenal medulla. J Anat 99:231-254
16. Coupland RE, Weakley BS (1968) Developing chromaffin tissue in the rabbit: an electron microscopic study. J Anat 102:425-455
17. Crivellato E, Ribatti D, Mallardi F, Beltrami CA (2002) Granule changes of human and murine endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal epithelia are characteristic of piecemeal degranulation. Anat Rec 268:353-359
18. Crivellato E, Nico B, Perissin L, Ribatti D (2003a) Ultrastructural morphology of adrenal chromaffin cells indicative of a process of piecemeal degranulation. Anat Rec 270:103-108
19. Crivellato E, Nico B, Mallardi F, Beltrami CA, Ribatti D (2003b) Piecemeal degranulation as a general secretory mechanism? Anat Rec 274:778-784
20. Crivellato E, Belloni A, Nico B, Nussdorfer GG, Ribatti D (2004) Chromaffin granules in the rat adrenal medulla release their secretory content in a particulate fashion. Anat Rec 277:204-208
21. Crivellato E, Finato N, Ribatti D, Beltrami CA (2005) Piecemeal degranulation in human tumour pheochromocytes. J Anat 206:47-53
22. Douglas WW, Poisner AM (1965) Preferential release of adrenaline from the adrenal medulla by muscarine and pilocarpine. Nature 208:1102-1103
23. Dvorak AM (1991) Basophil and mast cell degranulation and recovery. In: Harris JR (ed) Blood cell biochemistry, vol 4. Plenum, New York, pp 340-377
24. Edwards SL, Anderson CR, Southwell BR, McAllen RM (1996) Distinct preganglionic neurons innervate noradrenaline and adrenaline cells in the cat adrenal medulla. Neuroscience 70:825-832
25. Fesce R, Grohovaz F, Valtorta F, Meldolesi J (1994) Neurotransmitter release: fusion or "kiss-and-run? Trends Cell Biol 4:1-4
26. Hillarp NA (1959) On the histochemical demonstration of adrenergic nerves with the osmic acid-sodium iodide technique. Acta Anat 38:379-384
27. Holroyd P, Lang T, Wenzel D, De Camilli P, Jahn R (2002) Imaging direct, dynamin-dependent recapture of fusing secretory granules on plasma membrane lawns from PC12 cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:16806-16811
28. Jabonero V, Fabra L, Moya J, Jabonero RM (1961) Resultados del metodo acido osmico-ioduro de cine para la demonstration de los elementos nerviosos perifericos. Trab Inst Cajal 53:123-170
29. +2-dependent exocytosis: implication of kinetic diversity for secretory function. Trends Neurosci 22:88-93
30. Koval LM, Yavorskaya EN, Lukyanetz EA (2001) Electron microscopic evidence for multiple types of secretory vesicles in bovine chromaffin cells. Gen Comp Endocrinol 121:261-277
31. Langley K, Grant NJ (1999) Molecular markers of sympathoadrenal cells. Cell Tissue Res 298:185-206
32. Leon C, Grant NJ, Aunis D, Langley OK (1992) L1 cell adhesion molecule is expressed by noradrenergic but not adrenergic chromaffin cells: a possible major role for L1 in adrenal medullary design. Eur J Neurosci 4:201-209
33. 2+ signals and secretion in chromaffin cell subtypes. Am J Physiol 272:C476-C484
34. Maillet M (1963) Le reactif au tetroxide d'osmium-iodure du zinc. Z Mikrosk Anat Forsch 70:397-425
35. Mallardi F, Crivellato E, Fusaroli P (1985) Modification of the original technique of Champy: a simple procedure for staining melanocytes. Basic Appl Histochem 29:81-84
36. Malosio ML, Giordano T, Laslop A, Meldolesi J (2004) Densecore granules: a specific hallmark of the neuronal/neurosecretory cell phenotype. J Cell Sci 117:743-749
37. Marcussen N (1992) The double disector: unbiased stereological estimation of the number of particles inside other particles. J Microsc 165:417-426
38. Marley PD, Bunn SJ, Wan DC, Allen AM, Mendelsohn FA (1989) Localization of angiotensin II binding sites in the bovine adrenal medulla using a labelled specific antagonist. Neuroscience 28:777-787
39. Palfrey HC, Artalejo AR (2003) Secretion: kiss and run caught on film. Curr Biol 13:R397-R399
40. Rhodin JAG (1975) An atlas of histology. Oxford University Press, London, p 263
41. Russ JC, Dehoff DT (1999) Practical stereology, 2nd edn. Plenum, New York
42. Ryan TA (2003) Kiss-and-run, fuse-pinch-and-linger, fuse-and-collapse: the life and times of a neurosecretory granule. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:2171-2173
43. Scalet M, Crivellato E, Mallardi F (1989) Demonstration of phenolic compounds in plant tissues by an osmium-iodide post-fixation procedure. Stain Technol 64:273-280
44. Silver RB, Pappas GD (2005) Secretion without membrane fusion: porocytosis. Anat Rec 282B:18-37
45. Taraska JW, Perrais D, Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nagamatsu S, Almers W (2003) Secretory granules are recaptured largely intact after stimulated exocytosis in cultured endocrine cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:2070-2075
46. Thomas-Reetz AC, De Camilli P (1994) A role for synaptic vesicles in non-neuronal cells: clues from pancreatic β cells and from chromaffin cells. FASEB J 8:209-216
47. Tsuboi T, Rutter GA (2003) Multiple forms of "kiss-and-run" exocytosis revealed by evanescent wave microscopy. Curr Biol 13:563-567
48. Weibel ER (1979) Stereological methods, vol 1. Academic Press, London
49. Winkler H (1993) The adrenal chromaffin granule: a model for large dense core vesicles of endocrine and nervous tissue. J Anat 183:237-252
50. Winkler H, Carmichael SW (1982) The chromaffin granule. In: Poisner A, Trifarò JM (eds) The secretory granule. Elsevier North-Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam, pp 3-79