Ultrastructure of tracheal epithelial cells migrating in an in vivo environment
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- Sawada Hajime
- Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine
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- Tanaka Hideo
- Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine
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- Ono Michio
- Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine
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The tracheal epithelium can be induced to move as a cellular sheet by heterotopic transplantation, which offers the opportunity to observe migrating cells as a group in an in vivo environment. We therefor investigated the ultrastructural characteristics of migrating tracheal epithelial cells with special reference to the moving front using this transplantation. The migrating epithelial cells underwent squamous metaplasia and lost their differentiated characteristics such as cilia or secretory granules. Several unique observations were made concerning the mechanism of mobility: one is that epithelial cells in the front were elongated in a direction perpendicular to the course of movement, different from previous reports in vitro. The second is that lamellipodia, which are regarded as the major locomotive machinery in the adult wound epithelium, did not make up the major part of the front; the major portion of the anterior fringe of the moving front was usually smooth and gently curved, and actin cables parallel to the elongated cells were observed by confocal laser microscopy, indicating that the purse-string mechanism of epithelial wound healing takes place. The third finding is that the cells in the front had irregular bleb-like structures on their antero-basal surface, which were formed even in the portion where the cells did not attach to the matrix. Few organelles were recognized in these structures. From their location, one might propose that these bleb-like structures play a role in the recognition of the substrate and thus the movement of the cell sheet.
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- Archives of Histology and Cytology
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Archives of Histology and Cytology 71 (4), 223-234, 2008
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- CRID
- 1390282681390160256
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- NII論文ID
- 10025096019
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- NII書誌ID
- AA1068990X
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- ISSN
- 13491717
- 09149465
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