An Evaluation of Normal Strial Capillary Transport Using the Electron-Opaque Tracers Ferritin and Iron Dextran
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 89 (1-2) , 12-26
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016488009127103
Abstract
Enzymatic tracer techniques to study normal and pathologic strial capillary transport pose various problems. The use of electron opaque tracers can circumvent many of these problems. Iron dextran (mol. diam 20-70 Å) and ferritin (mol. diam 110 Å) were injected intravenously and the mice sacrificed at intervals of ½, 1, 2, 5, and 24 h. The iron dextran results were unusual in that from ½, to 5 h after administration the tracer was present within the cytoplasmic matrix of endothelia, but by 24 h it had been cleared out. No transendothelial exchange was noted. The ferritin results were in conflict with previous results using horse-radish peroxidase. Transport of ferritin was minimal regardless of time sacrificed. No more than a few molecules were scattered about the capillary basal lamina. Those molecules transported across capillaries were apparently delivered by means of the micropinocytotic system. The results suggest a blood-strial barrier similar to the blood-thymic and blood-myenteric barriers. Experimental as well as control animals exhibited strial light cells which contained ferritin-like particles within their cytoplasmic matrices. These light cells are probably reticuloendothelial type cells. Ferritin may be useful to gauge strial capillary transport alterations associated with auditory pathologies. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Enzymatische Tracermethoden für die Erforschung normales und pathologisches Kapillartransports der Stria stellen verschiedene Probleme vor. Die Verwendung opaker Elektronentracer kann viele von diesen Problemen verhüten. Eisendextran (mol. Dm. 20-70 Å) und Ferritin (mol. Dm. 110 Å) wurden intravenos eingespritzt, und die Mause wurden nach Zwischenzeiten von 1/2, 1, 2, 5 und 24 Stunden geopfert. Die Eisendextran-Ergebnisse waren un-gewöhnlich, weil der Tracer von 1/2 bis 5 Stunden nach der Einspritzung in der zytoplasmatischen Matrize der Endothelen zugegen war, aber gegen die 24. Stunde war er ausgeräumt worden. Kein transendothelialer Austausch wurde bemerkt. Die Ferritin-Ergebnisse wider-sprachen vorhergehenden Ergebnissen, die Meerrettich-peroxidase benutzten. Der Transport von Ferritin war un-geachtet der verstrichenen Zeit minimal. Nur ein paar Molekeln wurden urn die Basalkapillarlamina bestreut. Die quer durch Kapillaren übergeführten Molekeln wurden anscheinend mittels des mikropinozytotischen Systems übergebracht. Die Ergebnisse deuten eine Blut-Stria-Sperre an, die den Blut-Thymus- und Blut-Myen-terus-Sperren ähnlich ist. Versuchs-sowie auch Kontrolltiere wiesen Lichtzellen der Stria auf, die Ferritinähnliche Partikeln in ihren zytoplasmatischen Matrizen enthielten. Diese Lichtzellen sind wahrscheinlich Zellen des reticuloendothelialen Types. Ferritin könnte nutzbar sein, urn die auf Gehörpathologien bezogenen Änder-ungen des Kapillartransports der Stria abzuschätzen.Keywords
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