These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Mononucleated phagocytes and mesothelial cells in serous peritoneal effusion fluid].
    Author: Serre G, Soleilhavoup JP, Delsol G, Planel H.
    Journal: Bull Assoc Anat (Nancy); 1982 Mar; 66(192):137-49. PubMed ID: 6182934.
    Abstract:
    Twenty one peritoneal effusions from patients with cirrhosis were studied in order to characterize mesothelial cells, monocytes and their vacuolated forms. Morphological investigations were performed after Papanicolaou, M.G.G. and Giemsa stains; cytochemical studies by P.A.S., Alcian Blue pH 2,5 and Sudan Black B techniques. Seven enzymatic activities were appreciated: Naphtyl Acetate Esterase, Acid Phosphatase pH 5, beta Glucuronidase, Lactico-dehydrogénase, Malico D, NADH.D and Peroxidase pH 7,6. The free mesothelial cells show a metabolic and functional active phase in which their hydrolasic equipment suggests an intense lysosomal activity only correlated to pinocytosis. Monocytes in transudates show a morphologically micro-vacuolated macrophagic transformation of pinocytic type (elicited macrophages ?); they only become cytophagic when an acute inflammation occurs (activated macrophages ?). This paper emphasizes analogy of behaviour of mesothelial cells and monocytes in transudates, but demonstrates differences in their energetic metabolisms and endocytic characteristics.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]