[Structural and functional changes of endothelium of heart's vessels of old rats according to immunistochemical...

The aim of the work is to investigate the morphofunctional changes of the vascular endothelium in different parts of the heart of aging rats using immunohistochemical detection of Willebrand factor. Reactive, dystrophic and pathological changes of endotheliocytes in different parts of the heart of old (18-23 months) rats were first identified using an immunohistochemical marker vWF. They are most expressed in the endothelium of the arterial vessels of the aortic root, coronary arteries of the epicardium, and myocardial capillaries. In this work, desquamation of endothelial cells into the blood, death of capillaries in the myocardium, an increase in the number of sinusoidal vessels, their mummification, the formation of lacunae or cisterns filled with blood were found. It has been established that the secretory activity of endotheliocytes increases with aging. It is established that the products of protein metabolism, pigment, Weibel-Palade body and various sizes of blood clots accumulate in the cavity subaroundal cone of heart in old rats. Pigment structures were also found in the valves and the fibrous ring. The data obtained are of great diagnostic value.