Histochemical organization and cellular composition of ductal buds in developing human breast: evidence of cytochemical intermediates between epithelial and myoepithelial cells.

Author:

Rudland P S

Abstract

In developing human breast, terminal end buds (TEBs), lateral buds (LBs), and lobules of three to five alveolar buds (ABs) predominate in prepubertal females, whereas lobules of ABs and lobules of up to 60 ductules predominate in pubertal females. The appearance of clefts in TEBs and LBs suggests that they are precursors of ABs. In histological sections the ductal buds are composed of a heterogeneous collection of cells that include cortical and peripheral cells. The cortical cells can line small lumina in TEBs/LBs, whereas the peripheral cells which cap their distal tips are more irregular and loosely packed. Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) to epithelial milk-fat globule membranes and antiserum to epithelial membrane antigen immunocytochemically stain the cortical cells, particularly where such cells line lumina, and weakly stain the peripheral cap cells. Similar histochemical staining patterns are observed in desialylated sections with peanut lectin. Antiserum and MAb to smooth muscle actin moderately stain the peripheral cap cells, and this staining increases the closer the peripheral cells become to the myoepithelial cells of the subtending duct. Similar but weaker staining patterns are observed with antibodies to vimentin. Keratin MAb PKK2 and LP34, which stain myoepithelial cells in preference to epithelial cells in main ducts, as well as MAb to epithelium-specific keratin 18, all stain many of the cortical/luminal cells in buds and lobules of developing breast; the peripheral cap cells are relatively unstained. It is suggested that the undifferentiated peripheral cap cells show transitional forms both to the cortical epithelial cells that eventually line the lumina and to the myoepithelial cells of the subtending duct.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Histology,Anatomy

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