Applied Microscopy
- Volume 29 Issue 3
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- Pages.291-301
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- 1999
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- 2287-5123(pISSN)
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- 2287-4445(eISSN)
The Differentiation and Ultrastructural Characteristics of Type II Pneumocyte in Early Human Fetal Lungs
태아 허파의 초기 발달 중 과립허파꽈리세포의 분화와 미세구조의 특징
- Yoo, Dong-Hwa (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University) ;
- Kim, Dae-Joong (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Kangwon National University) ;
- Kim, Sung-Su (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University) ;
- Kim, Kyung-Yong (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University) ;
- Lee, Won-Bok (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University)
- 유동화 (중앙대학교 의과대학 해부학교실) ;
- 김대중 (강원대학교 의과대학 해부학교실) ;
- 김성수 (중앙대학교 의과대학 해부학교실) ;
- 김경용 (중앙대학교 의과대학 해부학교실) ;
- 이원복 (중앙대학교 의과대학 해부학교실)
- Published : 1999.09.01
Abstract
The differentiation and ultrastructural characteristics of type II pneumocyte was investigated using 7 cases of human fetal lungs from 9 to 20 weeks of gestation by transmission electron micropscopy. The result obtained were as follows. 1. From the pattern of epithelium, type II pneumocyte was not discernable, but with the gradual development of gestation, the epithelium of the future pulmonary alveoli was transformed from pseudostratified columnar into simple cuboidal epithelium after 15 weeks of geatation. 2. The multilamellar body very specific to type II pneumocyte was observed at first at 9 weeks of gestation. Besides, another characteristics of the cell were also observed such as cytoplasmic inclusion body, granular inclusionbody,multivesicularinclusionbodyanddensebody. 3. The number and size of multilamellar body increased, but those of other inclision bodies decreased at 19 and 20 weeks of gestation. In summary, type II pneumocytes (or precursor cells) with multilamellar body and another characteristic inclusion bodies were observed in the human fetal lungs from 9 weeks of gestation. And so, it is suggested that the differentiation of type II pneumocyte starts at or before 9 weeks of gestation.
초기발생중인 태령 9주부터 20주의 사람 태아의 허파 7예에서 과립허파꽈리세포의 분화과정과 미세구조의 특징을 밝히고자 투과전자현미경으로 관찰한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 발생 9주와 12주에서 기관지 나무의 상피의 형태로는 과립허파꽈리세포의 분화를 확인할 수 없었지만 발생이 진행되면서 15주 후부터 허파꽈리를 형성할 부위의 상피는 점차 거짓중층상피에서 단순입방상피로 분화하였다. 2. 발생 9주에서 처음으로 뭇층판소체가 관찰되어 과립허파꽈리세포의 분화를 확인할 수 있었다. 이외에도 발생