Avtor/Urednik     Ghadially, Feroze N
Naslov     Pigments of the gatrointestinal tract. A saga of botched histochemistry.
Tip     članek
Vir     In: Rečnik A, Čeh M, Dražič G, editors. Proceedings of the 3rd multinational congress on electron microscopy; 1997 Oct 5-8; Portorož. Ljubljana: Slovenian society for electron microscopy,
Leto izdaje     1997
Obseg     str. 15-8
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     It is now apparent that light microscopy (LM) and histochemistry had failed to correctly identify the nature and composition of pigments in various gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) melanoses. In most instances it was thought that the pigment was melanin or a melanin-like substance. Electron microscopy (EM) and electron-proge energy dispersive x-ray analysis (EDX) have rectified these errors and shown that: (1) in melanosis coli the pigment granules contatin lipofuscin: (2) in melanoses ilei the pigment granules may contain either silicates and titanium or hemosiderin; (3) in melanosis duodeni the pigment granules contain iron sulphide; and (4) in some cases of melanosis oesohagi the pigment granules contain melanin.
Deskriptorji     MELANOSIS
GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON
ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS
LIPOFUSCIN
SILICATES
TITANIUM
HEMOSIDERIN
IRON
MELANINS