Summary
The ultrastructural localization of peroxidase (PO) in the leucocytes of three teleosts (Cyprinus carpio L., Tinca tinca L., Salmo gairdneri R.) has been investigated using the 3,3′-diaminobenzidine method. In the heterophilic granulocytes the granules show a species specific structure and are PO-positive at pH 7.6. They can be traced back to small granules arising near the Golgi apparatus (GA) in the promyelocyte. They coalesce to form larger granules and gradually change into the mature type. Myelocytes contain small unreactive granules, and these represent a second granule population. Eosinophils contain one PO-positive granule type (at pH 9), and these granules show a varying density during cell maturation.
Basophils are present only in the Cyprinid species, and contain unreactive granules originating from precursors displaying a weakly positive reaction at pH 7.6. The active secretory organelles (RER, GA) are PO-negative, except for a weakly positive reaction in the flocculent matrix of the inner G-cisternae.
In promonocytes and monocytes the granules are unreactive, but in the macrophages PO-positive staining occurs in a few small to medium sized granules, and in large vacuoles. At least some of these latter are apparently derived from phagolysosomes containing digested erythrocytes. Thrombocytes and lymphocytes are unreactive.
The successive development of PO-positive and negative granule populations in the heterophils, and the PO-reactivity of eosinophils and basophils, show some similarities to the corresponding cells in higher vertebrates, but an analogous PO-positive (“azurophil”) granule type in monocytes seems to be absent.
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Bielek, E. Developmental stages and localization of peroxidatic activity in the leucocytes of three teleost species (Cyprinus carpio L.; Tinca tinca L.; Salmo gairdneri Richardson). Cell Tissue Res. 220, 163–180 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209975
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