Origin of Prolactin Cells in the Pituitary Autografts in the Renal Capsule of Young Male and Female Rats
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Origin of prolactin cells in the pituitary grafts autotransplanted into the renal capsule was electron microscopically investigated in young male and female rats. Prolactin cells may mainly originate from the completely degranulated acidophils after grafting in both sexes. The comprehensive degranulation of acidophils may be essential condition for the development of prolactin cells. Formation of initial prolactin granules is related to the Golgi apparatus in 3 and 6 days in the males. Even prolonged transplantation for the duration of 10 and 20 days failed to develop the typical prolactin cells storing large polymorphic granules in the grafts in the males. In the females, however, the population of prolactin cells became higher (20-30%) and their granulation was more rapidly advanced than in the males. Nine and 16 days after grafting, quite numerous typical prolactin cells, characterized by the pronounced vesiculation of ER stored large polymorphic granules in the females. Progressive vesiculation of ER in degranulated acidophils may be the second necessary condition for establishing the prolactin cells. Thus, the entire course of cell conversion of acidophils into prolactin cells was observed in this study. All the graft cells including prolactin cells finally turned into the cells losing the respective individuality (10 days in the males; 32 days in the females). This fine structural similarity was striking in the males. We could not, however, deny the possibility of origination of prolactin cells from the follicular cells or their adjoining undifferentiated cells.
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