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Using the semi-thin/ultra-thin technique six different immunoreactive endocrine cell types are ultrastructurally identified in 0.5% glutaraldehyde fixed gut of B. conchonius. In addition two of them (gastrin-and PP-immunoreactive cells) are also characterized with the immunogold method, showing that the immunoreactivity is only restricted to the secretory granules. Size distribution histograms and the average diameters of 30% (d30) of the largest granules are given, showing a gradual increase in granule size from unspecific immunoreactive cells, (d30=110 nm) via gastrin-(119 nm), VIP-like-(127 nm), met-enkephalin-(143 nm) and PP-(174 nm) to glucagon-immunoreactive cells (178 nm). The presence of PP-and glucagon-immunoreactivity in the same cells and the consequence for their granule size is discussed. In the distal part of the gut endocrine cells are found showing no immunoreactivity with the antisera used; their granules (d30=144 nm) were, although not significantly, larger then those of VIP-like-immunoreactive cells, also found in that part of the gut. It is supposed that they represent substance P-immunoreactive cells. Unfortanately, secretory granules of several cell types showed about 20% more shrinkage in 0.5% glutaraldehyde fixed tissue, than in osmicated tissue.
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Rombout, J.H.W.M., Bol, J. & Taverne-Thiele, J.J. Ultrastructural characterization of 6 immunoreactive enteroendocrine cells in Barbus conchonius (Teleostei, cyprinidae). Histochemistry 85, 467–473 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00508428
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