[The postnatal development of the hemato-C-cellular system in the thyroid of rats sympathectomized with guanethidine]

Ontogenez
|March 1, 1997
PubMed

We used ultrastructural morphometry to examine submicroscopical organization of spatial contacts between the C-cells and perifollicular hemocapillaries in the thyroid gland of 2-, 4-, 12-, 26-, and 52-week-old rats desympathized with guanetidine. We found that desympathization does not affect typology of ultrastructural elements of the hemato-C-cellular complex, and predominant coupling of the vascular pole of the C-cell with peripheral zone of endotheliocyte highly effective in terms of transport. Postnatal changes of certain parameters of the hemato-C-cellular system, however, undergo some statistically significant changes. Under experimental conditions, we observed the formation of hemato-C-cellular contacts simultaneously involving two C-cells.

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