Double replica technique applied to choroid plexus from early foetal sheep: completeness and complexity of tight junctions
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Double replica technique applied to choroid plexus from early foetal sheep: completeness and complexity of tight junctions
Abstract
Choroid plexuses from early and late sheep foetuses were examined by an improved freeze-fracture technique and the use of double-replicas to define the structure of the tight junction network of the epithelial cells. 'Complex' strands which consist of two normal parallel strands separated by a single row of pits or particles are defined and demonstrated in complementary faces. Since this strand variety was encountered in the same proportion in the different development stages investigated, it could not be correlated with changes in permeability. It is more likely that the 'complex' strands are associated with the transfer of gap junction particles within the membrane. The question of the significance of discontinuities in P face ridges was also resolved by the double replica technique: the few discontinuities which were observed could be accounted for by particles in the complementary E faces. Furthermore, approximately the same number of such junction displacements was found in early and late stages which makes it unlikely that this phenomenon could contribute to changes in permeability. Thus it has not been possible so far to relate any structural feature of the tight junction network in developing choroid plexus epithelial cells with the reported changes in permeability of the blood-C.S.F. barrier.
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