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Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder
Urinary bladder voiding is a complex mechanism depending upon interplay among detrusor, urothelium, sensory and motor neurons and connective tissue cells. The identity of some of the latter cells is still controversial. We presently attempted to clarify their phenotype(s) in the human urinary bladde...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25139461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.12375 |
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author | Vannucchi, Maria-Giuliana Traini, Chiara Guasti, Daniele Giulio, Del Popolo Faussone-Pellegrini, Maria-Simonetta |
author_facet | Vannucchi, Maria-Giuliana Traini, Chiara Guasti, Daniele Giulio, Del Popolo Faussone-Pellegrini, Maria-Simonetta |
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description | Urinary bladder voiding is a complex mechanism depending upon interplay among detrusor, urothelium, sensory and motor neurons and connective tissue cells. The identity of some of the latter cells is still controversial. We presently attempted to clarify their phenotype(s) in the human urinary bladder by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and immunohistochemistry. At this latter aim, we used CD34, PDGFRα, αSMA, c-Kit and calreticulin antibodies. Both, TEM and immunohistochemistry, showed cells that, sharing several telocyte (TC) characteristics, we identified as TC; these cells, however, differed from each other in some ultrastructural features and immunolabelling according to their location. PDGFRα/calret-positive, CD34/c-Kit-negative TC were located in the sub-urothelium and distinct in two subtypes whether, similarly to myofibroblasts, they were αSMA-positive and had attachment plaques. The sub-urothelial TC formed a mixed network with myofibroblasts and were close to numerous nerve endings, many of which nNOS-positive. A third TC subtype, PDGFRα/αSMA/c-Kit-negative, CD34/calret-positive, ultrastructurally typical, was located in the submucosa and detrusor. Briefly, in the human bladder, we found three TC subtypes. Each subtype likely forms a network building a 3-D scaffold able to follow the bladder wall distension and relaxation and avoiding anomalous wall deformation. The TC located in the sub-urothelium, a region considered a sort of sensory system for the micturition reflex, as forming a network with myofibroblasts, possessing specialized junctions with extracellular matrix and being close to nerve endings, might have a role in bladder reflexes. In conclusions, the urinary bladder contains peculiar TC able to adapt their morphology to the organ activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-42440152014-12-03 Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder Vannucchi, Maria-Giuliana Traini, Chiara Guasti, Daniele Giulio, Del Popolo Faussone-Pellegrini, Maria-Simonetta J Cell Mol Med Original Articles Urinary bladder voiding is a complex mechanism depending upon interplay among detrusor, urothelium, sensory and motor neurons and connective tissue cells. The identity of some of the latter cells is still controversial. We presently attempted to clarify their phenotype(s) in the human urinary bladder by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and immunohistochemistry. At this latter aim, we used CD34, PDGFRα, αSMA, c-Kit and calreticulin antibodies. Both, TEM and immunohistochemistry, showed cells that, sharing several telocyte (TC) characteristics, we identified as TC; these cells, however, differed from each other in some ultrastructural features and immunolabelling according to their location. PDGFRα/calret-positive, CD34/c-Kit-negative TC were located in the sub-urothelium and distinct in two subtypes whether, similarly to myofibroblasts, they were αSMA-positive and had attachment plaques. The sub-urothelial TC formed a mixed network with myofibroblasts and were close to numerous nerve endings, many of which nNOS-positive. A third TC subtype, PDGFRα/αSMA/c-Kit-negative, CD34/calret-positive, ultrastructurally typical, was located in the submucosa and detrusor. Briefly, in the human bladder, we found three TC subtypes. Each subtype likely forms a network building a 3-D scaffold able to follow the bladder wall distension and relaxation and avoiding anomalous wall deformation. The TC located in the sub-urothelium, a region considered a sort of sensory system for the micturition reflex, as forming a network with myofibroblasts, possessing specialized junctions with extracellular matrix and being close to nerve endings, might have a role in bladder reflexes. In conclusions, the urinary bladder contains peculiar TC able to adapt their morphology to the organ activity. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-10 2014-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4244015/ /pubmed/25139461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.12375 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Foundation for Cellular and Molecular Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Vannucchi, Maria-Giuliana Traini, Chiara Guasti, Daniele Giulio, Del Popolo Faussone-Pellegrini, Maria-Simonetta Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title | Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title_full | Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title_fullStr | Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title_full_unstemmed | Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title_short | Telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
title_sort | telocytes subtypes in human urinary bladder |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25139461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.12375 |
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