AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

The probable shape, size, and orientation of desmosomes of the cells comprising the secretory tubules in rat submaxillary gland was determined by statistical and algebraic methods applied to electron micrographs. It was concluded that these desmosomes are discrete ellipsoidal discs whose principal a...

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Autores principales: Tamarin, Arnold, Sreebny, Leo M.
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Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1963
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2106287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19866631
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description The probable shape, size, and orientation of desmosomes of the cells comprising the secretory tubules in rat submaxillary gland was determined by statistical and algebraic methods applied to electron micrographs. It was concluded that these desmosomes are discrete ellipsoidal discs whose principal axes are in the order of 4100 and 2500 angstrom units, and that they are preferentially oriented with their long axis more or less parallel to the base-apex axis of the cell. Densitometric interpretation agrees with the statistically based reconstruction of desmosomal shape. By densitometric analysis it was also determined that the peak to peak distances between layers within these desmosomes are in essential agreement with other reported findings. The approach described may have general applications to problems in the analysis of submicroscopic morphology.
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spelling pubmed-21062872008-05-01 AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Tamarin, Arnold Sreebny, Leo M. J Cell Biol Article The probable shape, size, and orientation of desmosomes of the cells comprising the secretory tubules in rat submaxillary gland was determined by statistical and algebraic methods applied to electron micrographs. It was concluded that these desmosomes are discrete ellipsoidal discs whose principal axes are in the order of 4100 and 2500 angstrom units, and that they are preferentially oriented with their long axis more or less parallel to the base-apex axis of the cell. Densitometric interpretation agrees with the statistically based reconstruction of desmosomal shape. By densitometric analysis it was also determined that the peak to peak distances between layers within these desmosomes are in essential agreement with other reported findings. The approach described may have general applications to problems in the analysis of submicroscopic morphology. The Rockefeller University Press 1963-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2106287/ /pubmed/19866631 Text en Copyright © 1963 by The Rockefeller Institute Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title_full AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title_fullStr AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title_full_unstemmed AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title_short AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
title_sort analysis of desmosome shape, size, and orientation by the use of histometric and densitometric methods with electron microscopy
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