Dynamics of myocytes of different types in rat myometrium during pregnancy and early postpartum involution.

Autor: Shkurupiy VA; Research Center of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. sck@soramn.ru, Dubinin EV, Dubinina NN
Jazyk: English; Russian
Zdroj: Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine [Bull Exp Biol Med] 2008 Dec; Vol. 146 (6), pp. 849-52.
DOI: 10.1007/s10517-009-0404-7
Abstrakt: Light and electron microscopy and morphometry of rat myometrium revealed 5 morphological types of myometrial smooth muscle cells. Quantitative evaluation of all cytotypes was performed in nonpregnant animals, during normal pregnancy, and during the early postpartum period. Transformation of some cells with nonvacuolated cytoplasm and clear nuclei (type 1) into type 3 cells (with small vacuoles in the cytoplasm), type 4 cells (in a state of balloon degeneration), and type 5 cells (apoptotic bodies) was observed during gestation and early postpartum period.
Databáze: MEDLINE