Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of the lamellae of oocytes in atretic follicles in relation to different processes of cell death

Submitted: 7 May 2015
Accepted: 24 June 2015
Published: 12 August 2015
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Atresia is the process through which non-selectable oocytes are eliminated; it involves apoptosis and/or autophagy. This study used immunohistochemical and ultrastructural techniques to characterize the lamellae present in the cytoplasm of oocytes in follicles in the process of atresia in prepubertal and adult Wistar rats. The results indicate that the lamellae are positive to tubulin and myosin immunodetection under light and electron microscopy. Labeling is greater with anti-tubulin and lesser with anti-myosin. Our observations indicate that lamellae are present in oocytes at the initial antral stage in prepubertal rats; that is, from day 14 post-birth to adult age. We were able to determine that the increase in altered lamellae principally occurs in the apoptotic cells rather than in the autophagic cells.

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M.L. Escobar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias
O.M. Echeverría, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias
G. García, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias
R. Ortíz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias
G.H. Vázquez-Nin, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias

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Escobar, M., Echeverría, O., García, G., Ortíz, R., & Vázquez-Nin, G. (2015). Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of the lamellae of oocytes in atretic follicles in relation to different processes of cell death. European Journal of Histochemistry, 59(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/ejh.2015.2535

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