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Ultrastructural localization of laminin on in vivo embryonic, neonatal, and adult rat cardiac myocytes and in early rat embryos raised in whole- embryo culture
RL Price, M Nakagawa, L Terracio and TK Borg
Department of Developmental Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208.
The temporal and spatial distribution of the basement membrane component laminin was examined in vivo in developing rat hearts at 11.5 and 15 days of embryonic development (ED), and in neonates and adults, by pre-embedding ultrastructural immunocytochemistry. In addition, the patterns observed at 11.5 days ED were compared to the distribution of laminin in embryos maintained in whole-embryo culture. At 11.5 days ED laminin was localized in punctate patches on the surface of the plasma membrane, with large gaps between areas of staining. The development of myocytes and localization of laminin in the whole embryo-cultured embryos was similar to that found in the in vivo embryos. At 15 days ED, laminin localization was limited to distinct patches of developing extracellular matrix material associated with the sarcolemma. Gaps between areas of localization were shorter than in the 11.5-day hearts. In neonates, distribution of laminin localization was more extensive with fewer gaps and was associated with the developing basement membrane. In adult hearts, laminin was localized along the entire length of the basement membrane and was heaviest in areas of morphological specialization, such as Z-bands, where collagen bundles contacted the sarcolemma.
Volume 40,
Issue 9,
pp. 1373-1381,
09/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society
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