Abstract:
:The widths of slit diaphragms in rat glomeruli were quantitatively measured on electron micrographs obtained by the rapid-freezing and freeze-substitution (FS) fixation method and compared to those prepared by conventional chemical fixation procedures, such as tannic acid, glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide (TGO) or glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide (GO) fixation. When fixed by FS using 2% osmium tetroxide, glomerular slit diaphragms had widths of 33.8 +/- 3.6 nm, but when fixed by TGO or GO they had widths of 47.0 +/- 4.3 and 48.7 +/- 5.5 nm, respectively. The width of slit diaphragms was significantly narrower after cryofixation than after conventional TGO or GO fixation (P less than 0.001). Similarly, the distance between neighboring foot processes at 50 nm from slit diaphragms was significantly narrower after cryofixation (P less than 0.001). The widths were 98.6 +/- 17.1 nm after TGO fixation, 122.0 +/- 29.3 nm after GO fixation and only 54.8 +/- 18.7 nm after FS fixation. These foot processes were significantly broader after FS fixation. The foot processes were 179.2 +/- 59.4 nm in breadth after TGO fixation (P less than 0.001), 188.8 +/- 78.2 nm after GO fixation (P less than 0.01) and 235.1 +/- 87.2 nm after FS fixation. These results suggest that the cytoplasm of foot processes shrinks when the tissue is prepared by conventional chemical fixation methods, and that the broadening of slit diaphragms is an artifact separation of the margins of adjacent foot processes due to shrinkage. We propose that TGO fixation alters the structure of slit diaphragms by causing them to shrink.
journal_name
Kidney Intjournal_title
Kidney internationalauthors
Furukawa T,Ohno S,Oguchi H,Hora K,Tokunaga S,Furuta Sdoi
10.1038/ki.1991.253subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-10-01 00:00:00pages
621-4issue
4eissn
0085-2538issn
1523-1755pii
S0085-2538(15)57343-2journal_volume
40pub_type
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1979-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1986-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1995-04-01 00:00:00
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