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Título: Interstitital cells of Cajal in the human stomach: distribution and relationship with enteric innervation
Fecha de publicación: 2004
Editorial: Murcia : F. Hernández
ISSN: 0213-3911
Materias relacionadas: CDU::6 - Ciencias aplicadas::61 - Medicina::611 - Anatomía
Palabras clave: Human stomach
Enteric nerves
Resumen: Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are distributed throughout the gastrointestinal muscle coat with a region-specific location, and are considered to be pacemaker and/or mediators of neurotransmission. Little is known about their shape, size, distribution and relationships with excitatory and inhibitory nerves in human stomach. With this aim, we labeled the ICC, using c-Kit immunohistochemistry, followed by a quantitative analysis to evaluate the distribution and area occupied by these cells in the circular and longitudinal muscle layers and at the myenteric plexus level in the human fundus, corpus and antrum. Furthermore, by NADPH-d histochemistry and substance P (SP) immunohistochemistry, we labeled and quantified nitric oxide (NO)-producing and SP-containing nerves and evidenced their relationships with the ICC in these three gastric regions. In the fundus, the ICC appeared as bipolar cells and in the corpus and antrum they mainly appeared as multipolar cells, with highly ramified processes. The networks formed by ICC differed in the three gastric regions. The ICC number was significantly higher and cell area smaller in the fundus compared to the corpus and antrum. The area occupied by the ICC was significantly higher at the myenteric plexus level compared with circular and longitudinal muscle layers. Everywhere, NADPH-d-positive nerves were more numerous than SP-positive ones. Both kinds of fibers were closely apposed to the ICC in the corpus and antrum. In conclusion, in the human stomach, the ICC have region-specific shape, size and distribution and in the corpus and antrum have close contact with both inhibitory and excitatory nerves. Presumably, as suggested for laboratory mammals, these differences are in relationship with the motor activities peculiar to each gastric area.
Autor/es principal/es: Ibba-Manneschi, L.
Pacini, S.
Corsani, L.
Bechi, P.
Faussone-Pellegrini, M.S
Forma parte de: Histology and histopathology
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10201/21614
Tipo de documento: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Número páginas / Extensión: 12
Derechos: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Aparece en las colecciones:Vol.19, nº 4 (2004)

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