[Dependence of keratin No. 17 distribution on the degree of malignancy of bladder tumors].

Keratin No 17 expression (Mab E3) correlated with the stage and degree of malignancy of transitional-cell bladder carcinoma (TCC). Antibodies to keratin No 17 stained only the basal layer of the tumour growth in the TCC I while in TCC II-III positively stained cells were found everywhere in the tumour and staining was diffuse. Immunostaining for the simple keratins No 7, 8, 18, 19 in TCC I-III was diffuse.

[Local expression of cytokeratins 8, 17 and 18 in the mesenchyme and smooth muscles in the early stages of human organogenesis].

Expression of cytokeratins 7, 8, 17, 18 in human embryos and fetuses of 6.5-13 weeks was studied using light and electron immunocytochemistry and immunoelectroblotting with the monoclonal antibodies. Cytokeratins 8 and 18 were expressed in 6.

[The surface glycolipid antigen specific for the internal cell mass of the mouse blastocyst and of the stem cells of murine teratocarcinoma F9].

A new monoclonal antibody that recognizes a new antigen on the surface of mouse teratocarcinoma F9 stem cells has been described. This antigen is a glycolipid as demonstrated by inhibition of immunofluorescence by different monosaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipid fraction of F9 cells as well as by chemical analysis. Immunofluorescent staining of in vitro cultivated preimplantation mouse embryos has demonstrated that this antigen is specific only of internal cell mass cells of late blastocyst.

[Changes in the prekeratin set and in the intracellular distribution of intermediate filaments during the embryonic development of the liver in the rat].

Monoclonals against three individual proteins of the epithelial intermediate filaments, prekeratins (PK40, PK49, PK55), were used for immunofluorescence studies of the cryostat sections of the rat embryonic liver. The dynamics of expression and intracellular distribution of prekeratins reflects that of morphological rearrangement of the liver. The development of the system of liver beams was accompanied by changes in the expression and intracellular distribution of PK49 and PK55 and the development of the system of bile ducts by changes in all three PKs.