Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Biology, Institute of Zoology and Center for Electron Microscopy, Belgrade
Abstract
An ultramicroscopic study of brown adipose tissue (BAT) of rats treated with
Ca-SANDOZ? (480 mg/l) for 3 days, revealed erythrocyte exovesiculation and
migratory erythrocytic complexes from the capillaries to adipocyte cytoplasm
and mitochondria. Two types of erythrocytic material transfer were observed:
(i) numerous exocytic vesicles with electron dense material leaving the
erythrocytes; (ii) furcated complexes with microholes, embedded in amorphous
material. The content of red blood cell (RBC) complexes passed through the
capillaries and transferred to the brown adipocytes where it was detectable
in the cytoplasm and mitochondria. Light microscopy confirmed
sphenoechinocytic transformation of the RBCs in the blood smears of the
Ca-SANDOZ? treated rats.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology