Lysozyme localization in normal and diseased human gastric and colonic mucosa
- 1 July 1992
- Vol. 100 (7-12) , 575-585
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1699-0463.1992.tb03969.x
Abstract
The distribution of lysozyme in normal and pathological human gastric and colonic mucosa was studied by light and electron microscopic immunocytochemical techniques and compared with histological and histochemical features. Lysozyme was localized in pyloric glandular epithelial cells, mucous neck cells of fundic glands, Paneth cells and some crypt cells of the mature colonic mucosa. In addition, lysozyme was detected in a large spectrum of “immature” or “regenerative” epithelium: neck cells of the gastric regenerative zone, undifferentiated columnar cells of surface and hyperplastic interfoveolar crests of the stomach, regenerative cells in a healed gastric ulcer, some goblet cells in incomplete intestinal metaplasia, cells of the regenerative zone at the bottom of colonic crypts and, finally, fetal intestinal epithelium. Electron microscopically, we localized lysozyme in the central core of mucous granules in the pyloric gastric glandular epithelium and in the dense mucous granules in gastric mucous neck cells. Lysozyme was also detected in some immature mucin‐producing cells of the gastric regenerative zone and in the rough endoplasmic reticulum of surface hyperplastic columnar gastric cells. At the electron microscopic level, a peculiar correlation between the immunopattern of lysozyme and the morphology of mucous granules has been postulated. All our data support and extend the view that the presence of lysozyme may be related to cell immaturity as well as to a regenerative state of the cell. Finally, the lysozyme distribution and its relation to mucosubstances in gastric and colonic carcinoma suggest that lysozyme should not be considered an exclusive marker of cells of gastric derivation.Keywords
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