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  • Title: Time-course study of the Golgi-lysosome region of rat hepatocytes during early acute phase response to inflammation.
    Author: Thorne-Tjomsland G, Jamieson JC.
    Journal: Anat Rec; 1996 Jan; 244(1):15-27. PubMed ID: 8838420.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: In a previous study of the hepatocyte Golgi apparatus 24 hr following the induction of the acute phase response to inflammation, it was found that the predominant secretory content was a granulofilamentous material (GFM), rather than lipoprotein particles (LP) as in controls (Thorne-Tjomsland and Jamieson, 1995, Anat. Rec., 241:439-450). The present study aimed to determine when and how this switch occurs and to monitor the Golgi-lysosome region of hepatocytes in general during early inflammation. METHODS: Rats were injected with turpentine oil as an inflammatory agent. At 1, 2, 6, 12, and 16 hr after turpentine-injection (TI), the livers were prefixed by perfusion with cacodylate-buffered glutaraldehyde, postfixed with ferrocyanide reduced osmium, and processed for thin section transmission electron microscopy. RESULTS: LP were processed at all time points between 1 and 16 hr post-TI, and at 1 and 2 hr post-TI, the Golgi stacks were engorged with LP and therefore apparently processed more of these particles than in controls. A GFM was processed at later time points, starting at 12 hr post-TI. At the two time points when LP and GFM were co-processed, these materials were frequently seen sorted from each other within the trans-saccule and/or the trans-Golgi network (TGN). At the level of the TGN, these materials were packaged into secretory vesicles which typically contained LP and/or GFM. Massive depletion of cytoplasmic glycogen was observed primarily at 1, 2, and 6 hr following TI. Concomitantly and temporarily, glycogen accumulated within Golgi-associated lysosome-like bodies with extensive appendages. CONCLUSIONS: The switch in Golgi apparatus secretory content from LP to GFM occurred at around 12 hr post-TI, but was not discrete. The initial appearance of the GFM coincided with the initial increase in the serum of hepatocyte-derived acute phase reactants (see review Schreiber et al., 1989, Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 557: 61-85). An additional and surprising finding of the present study was that significant changes occurred in the Golgi-lysosome region much prior to the onset of acute phase reactant synthesis: 1 and 2 hr post-TI, the Golgi processed above-normal amounts of LP and Golgi-associated, lysosome-like bodies sequestered glycogen.
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