In situ localization of galactosyltransferase in surface mucous cells of the rat stomach.

Open Access

1 January 1977

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

Vol. 25 (1) , 57-60
https://doi.org/10.1177/25.1.13122

Abstract

Cryostate sections of the rat stomach fundus were incubated in the presence of uridine 5'-diphosphate-[3H]-galactose. The radioactivity in the surface mucous epithelial cells was shown by autoradiography to be specifically incorporated into a supranuclear area, the area where in these cells the Glogi system is situated. The incorporation lasted only 5-6 min and was Mn++ dependent. Galactose was probably incorporated into a beta-glycosidic bond.