Publications by authors named "Dalmane A"

Collagen IV and laminin are important constituents of the basement membrane (BM). By use of immunocytochemistry we examined the occurrence and distribution of these two components in the BM beneath normal, mucoid and metaplastic epithelium of large bronchi in 22 adults suffering from chronic nonspecific lung diseases. Both collagen IV and laminin were expressed as a thin and continuous layer beneath the epithelium in most tissue specimens with normal epithelium.

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Data on the origin, morphology and function of metrial gland cells are reviewed. Characteristic features of metrial gland cells are the availability of numerous eosinophilic granules lying near two round or oval nuclei and peripheral zone of the cytoplasm, generally devoid of organelles. This zone can generate pseudopodia-like projections.

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Odontoblasts of teeth anlagen in inbred white rat fetuses were studied electron microscopically. On the lateral surface of some odontoblasts isolated cilia were discovered, directed, as a rule, towards intercellular spaces. Cilial trunk is covered with the odontoblastic cytomembrane and in the area of the basal body the membrane is forming a sack-like enlargement.

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An attempt has been made to reveal simultaneously both mast and ECL cells in the fundic mucosa of some laboratory animals and man. In Bouin fluid fixed specimens, toluidine blue pH 5.0 and alcian blue pH 1.

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