PMID- 21424935
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110914
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1860-1499 (Electronic)
IS  - 1860-1499 (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 1
DP  - 2011 Mar
TI  - Multilayered structure of the basal lamina of the tubuli recti in normal mice.
PG  - 34-8
LID - 10.1007/s00795-010-0501-8 [doi]
AB  - Previous studies have demonstrated that the blood-testis barrier (BTB) at the 
      tubuli recti (TR) and the rete testis (RT) is less complete than at the 
      seminiferous tubules (ST). However, there has been no report focusing on the 
      basal lamina, which is an important component of the BTB at both TR and RT. In 
      the present study, we performed electron microscopic observation of the basal 
      lamina at the TR and RT, in comparison with that of those of the ST in normal 
      mice. The results showed that the basal lamina of modified Sertoli cells at the 
      TR segment exhibited a wavy and multilayered structure, but the Sertoli cells of 
      ST and the epithelium of RT had an almost flat and single-layered basal lamina. 
      It was also noted that wide gaps existed between the modified Sertoli cells, the 
      basal lamina of the epithelial layer, and the myoid cell layer at the middle TR 
      segment. This characteristic structure of the basal lamina of the TR epithelial 
      layer may be one of the factors for its incomplete BTB.
FAU - Tainosho, Sachi
AU  - Tainosho S
AD  - Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, 6-1-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, 
      Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan.
FAU - Naito, Munekazu
AU  - Naito M
FAU - Hirai, Shuichi
AU  - Hirai S
FAU - Terayama, Hayato
AU  - Terayama H
FAU - Qu, Ning
AU  - Qu N
FAU - Itoh, Masahiro
AU  - Itoh M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Japan
TA  - Med Mol Morphol
JT  - Medical molecular morphology
JID - 101239023
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Basement Membrane/metabolism/*ultrastructure
MH  - Blood-Testis Barrier/metabolism/*ultrastructure
MH  - Epithelium/ultrastructure
MH  - Male
MH  - Mice
MH  - Mice, Inbred ICR
MH  - Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
MH  - Rete Testis/metabolism/*ultrastructure
MH  - Sertoli Cells/ultrastructure
EDAT- 2011/03/23 06:00
MHDA- 2011/09/15 06:00
CRDT- 2011/03/23 06:00
PHST- 2011/03/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/03/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/09/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s00795-010-0501-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Mol Morphol. 2011 Mar;44(1):34-8. doi: 10.1007/s00795-010-0501-8.