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Light microscopic immunohistochemical analysis of the distribution of group II phospholipase A2 in human digestive organs
H Kiyohara, H Egami, Y Shibata, K Murata, S Ohshima and M Ogawa
Department of Surgery II, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
The light microscopic and immunohistochemical distribution of human Group II phospholipase A2 (M-PLA2) in digestive organs of both human fetus and adult, with a new monoclonal antibody (MAb) against M-PLA2, was investigated semiquantitatively. The immunoreactivity was distributed similarly in the adult and fetal epithelium of the esophagus, duodenum, and small intestine, and in the acinar, islet, and duct cells of the pancreas. The epithelium of adult gallbladder was immunoreactive. Paneth cells, especially the secretory apparatus, were strongly immunoreactive. Hepatic Kupffer cells and macrophages of the adult spleen were also immunoreactive. These results suggest that these cells contain secretory-type Group II PLA2, which may be involved in host defensive mechanisms, such as phagocytosis in human digestive organs. In the adult colon, the immunoreactivity was observed only in the ascending colon and was not found in the transverse, descending, sigmoid, or rectal colon. The immunoreactivity was not found in fetal colon. Similarly, immunoreactivity was found in hepatocytes and Kupffer cells of adult liver but not in fetal liver. By contrast, strong immunoreactivity was observed in the epithelium of the fetal stomach but not in adult stomach except in gastric neck cells. This suggests that the expression of M-PLA2 may be related to cell differentiation in particular organs.
Volume 40,
Issue 11,
pp. 1659-1664,
11/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society
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