spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


spacer gif
     Home     Help     Feedback     Subscriptions     Archive     Search     Table of Contents    

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by CHOU, J.T. Y.
Right arrow Articles by MEEK, G. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by CHOU, J.T. Y.
Right arrow Articles by MEEK, G. A.

Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Vol s3-99, 279-284, Copyright © 1958 by Company of Biologists

The Ultra-fine Structure of Lipid Globules in the Neurones of Helix aspersa

J.T. Y. CHOU 1 and G. A. MEEK 1

1 Cytological Laboratory, Department of Zoology; and Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford

The three kinds of lipid globules recognizable in the living neurones of Helix aspersa have been examined under the electron microscope. The globules of the kind that can be stained blue with methylene blue during life are seen in electron micrographs as spheres or spheroids, with concentric lamination, after calcium-osmium fixation. After fixation with sucrose-osmium laminated crescentic bodies are seen instead; these appear to be formed by distortion of the ‘blue’ globules. The yellow globules contain electrondense material, and sometimes appear reticular. It is possible that the yellow globules may originate by transformation of some of the ‘blue’ globules. The colourless globules generally appear as crenated objects; this appearance may be a shrinkage artifact.

Apart from the mitochondria and the three kinds of lipid globules described, no other object large enough to be identified with the light microscope has been seen in the cytoplasm.






© The Company of Biologists Ltd 1958