Apical excrescences in the gallbladder epithelium of the female Syrian hamster in response to medroxyprogesterone.
Animals; Bile/metabolism; Cholelithiasis/*chemically induced/pathology; Cholesterol/metabolism; Cricetinae; Electron; Epithelium/ultrastructure; Female; Gallbladder/*drug effects/metabolism/ultrastructure; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate/*pharmacology/toxicity; Mesocricetus/*anatomy & histology; Microscopy; Mucus/metabolism; Ovariectomy; Scanning; Sex Factors
All the intact female Syrian hamsters treated with medroxyprogesterone (MP) for a one-month period, without dietary manipulation, display gallbladder surface epithelial changes, and intraluminal deposits. These changes include excrescences in various stages, bulging, and extrusion of material from the epithelial cells. The most striking scanning electron microscopic observations are the dramatic events, comparable to apocrine-like secretory events observed in another related study using oophorectomized hamsters. Since the hamster gallbladder does not possess mucous goblet cells, it appears that this phenomenon could be a response to the MP treatment, thus providing a larger amount of mucous product than usual with cellular material, in addition to the possible alteration in the quality of the bile following this treatment. As a result of MP treatment, intraluminal deposits were also confirmed by using light and transmission electron microscopy. In control hamsters these events were not observed, however, small blebs outlining surface epithelial cells are seen. The results in this report complement the previous studies using the male and oophorectomized Syrian hamster model subjected to similar experimental conditions.
Gilloteaux J; Karkare S; Kelly T R
The Anatomical record
1993
1993-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1092360308" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/ar.1092360308</a>
Cytometric study of the female Syrian hamster gallbladder epithelium following sex steroid administration.
Animals; Cell Count; Cholelithiasis/*chemically induced/pathology; Cricetinae; Cytoplasm/drug effects; Drug Administration Schedule; Epithelial Cells; Epithelium/drug effects; Estrogens/*pharmacology; Female; Gallbladder/cytology/*drug effects; Mesocricetus; Progesterone/*pharmacology
This report is a cytometric study of the female Syrian hamster gallbladder epithelium following 1-, 2-, and 3-month administration of female sex steroids. Nulliparous, multiparous, young, old and pregnant hamsters were used in this study. A 1 month treatment with estrogen alone significantly increases the nuclear volume of the gallbladder epithelial cells, while E + P treatment significantly affects the nuclear volume only after a 2 month treatment. On the other hand, E + P and P treatments significantly increase the cell volumes as compared to the E-treated groups, this effect is most striking following the 1 month period. Prolonged sex steroid treatment (2 and 3 month) does not appear to influence the gallbladder epithelial cell and nuclear volumes as dramatically as that observed following the 1 month treatment. The nulliparous, progesterone-treated hamsters appear to have a greater cytoplasmic volume than the multiparous group and this is substantiated by the bulging apices and the luminal cellular excrescences observed with scanning and transmission electron microscopy. These observations are similar to those reported in ovariectomized hamsters (Gilloteaux et al., 1992). Further, the gallbladder epithelial cells and nuclei of the older female hamsters demonstrate an accentuated response to a 1 month sex steroid treatment as compared to the younger hamsters for the same treatment duration. These results enable us to hypothesize that changes induced by a short term sex steroid treatment participate in the gallstone nucleation process, while longer duration of the treatments contribute to progressive enlargement and accumulation of gallbladder calculi.
Adamiec-Beyga E; Karkare S; Kelly T R; Gilloteaux J
Tissue & cell
1993
1993-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0040-8166(93)90006-7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/0040-8166(93)90006-7</a>