体视学法在颅内血肿体积测量的应用

目的介绍改进后的体视学法测量颅内血肿体积,并验证其准确性。方法在92例颅内出血的CT图像上,同时运用体视法、CT定量法测量颅内血肿体积,以CT定量法的结果为标准验证体视法的准确性。结果按血肿体积大小分为5组,各组CT定量法、体视学法所测得体积采用配对样本的t检验分析P值皆大于0.05,即CT定量法、体视学法所测血肿体积无统计学差异。结论体视学法测量颅内血肿准确可靠,在CT工作站对颅内血肿病例行胶片打印排版时,在图像上加上合适的网格,可方便临床医生快速运用体视法准确测量颅内血肿体积。     

带浅静脉干逆行皮瓣早期微血管构筑变化的体视学研究

目的 探讨带浅静脉干的逆行皮瓣早期微血管构筑变化的特点以供临床实践参考。方法 应用生物体视学技术测量带浅静脉干皮瓣微血管体积密度，结合组织学观察，与不带静脉干皮瓣作对照比较。结果 带浅静脉干皮瓣组微血管密度整体水平高于不带静脉干皮瓣组（P〈0．05）。结论 浅静脉干的存在有利于皮瓣的血管化进程，保留浅静脉干对皮瓣成活有利。     

地方性氟中毒病区胎儿肾上腺皮质细胞超微结构体视学研究

对地方性氟病病区胎儿肾上腺皮质细胞进行超微结构体视学研究。结果显示：病区胎儿肾上腺皮质细胞核比表面和核平均体积缩小，细胞平均截面积和平均体积缩小；线粒体肿胀，平均周长和平均体积增大；粗面内质网体密度缩小。结果表明：机体过量氟对胎儿肾上腺皮质细胞超微结构有损伤作用。     

激素敏感型肾病单个核细胞培养上清液对大鼠肾小球多阴离子及超微结构的影响

用刀豆蛋白Ａ刺激激素敏感型肾病单个核细胞，并将其培养上清液灌注于大鼠肾内。结合电镜观察，用图像分析仪及体视学方法分别对其肾组织胶体铁染色切片和电镜照片上的足突和滤过裂隙的平均宽度进行测定。结果表明：该病极期上清液灌注的鼠肾小球多阴离子明显减少，足突肿胀、融合，滤过裂隙变窄；而该病缓解组和正常对照组则为阴性。说明该病单个核细胞培养上清液可引起鼠肾小球微小病变型肾病综合征的病变，并揭示该变化可能是由其上清液中一种异常的Ｔ淋巴细胞因子所致。     

Adaptation of the disector method to rare small organelles in TEM sections exemplified by counting synaptic bodies in the rat pineal gland

The disector is the only objective method for quantifying particles of variable size in a given volume. With this method, cell organelles are identified on adjacent sections, but only those present in one section are counted. When counting extremely rare structures in transmission electron microscope sections (physical disector), the usual procedure of counting on electron micrographs is limited for economic reasons (e.g. micrographs highly outnumbering the investigated structures). Hence, to apply this unbiased stereological method, a modification of the physical disector concerning 3 aspects has been developed. (1) The prerequisite of screening large corresponding tissue areas (here ∼65000 μm²) was fulfilled by examining tissue areas along the edges of ultrathin sections. (2) The size of the counting frame was determined by measuring the lengths of the section margins (minus a guard area) by means of a Morphomat. This value was multiplied by the width of the investigated tissue zone, corresponding to the diameter of the electron microscope viewing screen. (3) Disector counting was carried out simultaneously on both sections (bidirectional disector) to improve efficiency. In the present study tiny synaptic bodies (SBs) were quantitated by disector in a rat pineal gland, yielding ∼30 SBs/1000 μm³. By contrast, single section profile counts of SBs amounted to 90 SBs/20000 μm². Since the presently described adaptation of the disector is time-consuming, it is proposed to determine a proportion factor allowing to estimate number of structures per volume based on single section profile counts. This would decrease the evaluation time by more than 50%.     

大鼠马桑内酯急性局灶型癫痫大脑运动皮质的形态计量研究

用微量马桑内酯注入Ｗｉｓｔａｒ大鼠左侧前肢运动皮质，造成急性局灶型癫痫。用光镜、电镜和体视学方法研究其运动皮质第Ｖ层结构的改变。结果显示：癫痫大鼠运动皮质灶区、灶旁区的神经细胞数和胶质细胞数均分别比对照大鼠灶区和灶旁区显著减少；灶区神经毡中突触性终末数，显著减少；突触性终末的面积分数明显减少，而树突的面积分数无变化；神经胶质突起的面积分数增加。     

带真皮下血管网超薄皮瓣血运重建的实验研究（二）超薄皮瓣血管密度变化的体视学观察

以猪作为动物模型，通过分层抽样，制作各向同性切片，在图像分析仪下对超薄皮瓣的血管密度进行了观察。结果表明：超薄皮瓣血管密度于术后第５天开始出现显著性变化。这种变化首先出现在超薄皮瓣存活部分的远端，之后渐至近端。这种变化在超薄皮瓣血运重建过程中起主要作用。     

Numerical data on neocortical neurons in adult rat, with special reference to the GABA population

The disector method was used to estimate the numerical density of neurons (number per unit volume) and their actual number per column (number under a given area of pial surface), in the occipital (monocular segment of the primary visual area, Oc1M), the parietal (somatosensory barrelfield area, Par1) and the frontal cortex (primary motor area, Fr1) of adult rat. Values were first obtained for all neurons in each layer, and then for GABA neurons as identified with postembedding immunocytochemistry on semithin sections. The numerical density of neurons in the frontal cortex (34,000/mm³) was significantly lower than in the two other neocortical areas (occipital: 52,000; parietal: 48,000/mm³). The GABA population showed a similar difference and consequently represented an equivalent proportion of total (15%) in the three cortical areas. Across layers, there was an alternate distribution of low and high density of neurons from layers II–III to VI in the three cortical areas, with the highest density in layer IV of the two sensory areas. The laminar changes in density of the GABA neurons were not as pronounced as those of the overall population. Consequently, the layers with the highest overall neuronal densities tended to have a lower proportion of GABA neurons and vice versa. There were more neurons under 1 mm² of surface in the parietal (90,000) than the occipital or the frontal cortex (71,000), which was also true of the GABA neurons. The greater number of neurons per column in the parietal cortex was mostly imputable to layer IV, the main recipient of thalamic axons. Comparing these values from the rat with those previously obtained in cat and monkey, it seemed that the number of neurons per cortical column was the highest in the sensory area preferentially used by each species.     

The estimation of mean nuclear volume in the diagnosis of breast carcinoma.

Sixty-two cases of breast pathology were randomly selected from the files of the Dunedin Public Hospital for evaluation of mean epithelial nuclear volume. The cases were comprised of both benign and malignant ductal epithelial disease, diagnosed in cytological smears or in histological sections. Nuclear volume in histological preparations was estimated by the stereological technique of point-line intercept measurements to derive volume-weighted mean volumes (vV). An index of the nuclear volume (Vi) of cytology smears was calculated from measurements of nuclear areas by either image analysis Vi(e) or point-line intercepts Vi(p). By all methods of analysis a clear distinction of nuclear volume was found between the benign [means for the cytology were 148 microns 3 (Vi(e)) or 246 microns 3 (Vi(p)), and 203 microns 3 (Vv) for the histology specimens] and malignant diseased cases [means for cytology: 524 microns 3 (Vi(e)) or 886 microns 3 (Vi(p)), and 587 microns 3 (vV) for the histology specimens].     

Protective actions of human recombinant basic fibroblast growth factor on MPTP-lesioned nigrostriatal dopamine neurons after intraventricular infusion

Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF, FGF-2) is a trophic factor for neurons and astrocytes and has recently been demonstrated in the vast majority of dopamine (DA) neurons of the ventral midbrain of the rat. Potential neuroprotective actions of FGF-2 in the l-methyl-4-phenyl-l,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model have also been reported. The actions of the FGF-2 have now been further analyzed in a combined morphological and behavioural analysis in the MPTP model of the adult black mouse, using a continuous human recombinant FGF-2 (hrFGF-2) intraventricular (i.v.t.) administration in a heparin-containing (10 IU heparin/ml) mock cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) solution. Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunocytochemistry in combination with computer assisted microdensitometry demonstrated a counteraction of the MPTP-induced disappearance of neostriatal TH-immunoreactive (ir) nerve terminals following the FGF-2 treatment. Unbiased estimates of the total number of nigral TH ir neurons, using stereological methods involving the optical disector (Olympus), showed that the MPTP-induced reduction in the number of nigral TH ir nerve cell bodies counterstained with cresyl violet (CV; by 56%) was partially counteracted by the FGF-2 treatment (by 26%). The behavioral analysis demonstrated an almost full recovery of the MPTP-induced reduction of the locomotor activity after FGF-2 treatment. This action was maintained also 1 week after cessation of treatment. The hrFGF-2 produced an astroglial reaction as determined in the lateral neostriatum and in the substantia nigra (SN) far from the site of the infusion, indicating that the growth factor may have reached these regions by diffusion to activate the astroglia. Immunocytochemistry revealed FGF-2 immunoreactivity (IR) in the nuclei of the astroglia cell population in the dorsomedial striatum and the microdensitometric and morphometric evaluation demonstrated an increase in the number, but not in the intensity, of these profiles on the cannulated side, suggesting the possibility that hrFGF-2 stimulates FGF-2 synthesis in astroglial cells with low endogenous FGF-2 IR. These results indicate that hrFGF-2, directly and/or indirectly via astroglia, upon i.v.t. infusion exerts trophic effects on the nigrostriatal DA system and may increase survival of nigrostriatal DA nerve cells exposed to the MPTP neurotoxin.