Ultrastructural localization of alkaline phosphatase in rat eosinophil leucocytes. 1978

D M Williams, and J E Linder, and M W Hill, and R Gillett

The ultrastructural localization of alkaline phosphatase in eosinophil leucocytes, obtained from experimentally-induced peritoneal exudates in rats, has been studied using an osmiophilic technique with 2-naphthylthiolphosphoryl dichloride as substrate, fast Blue BBN as diazonium salt and postosmication with 1% aqueous osmium tetroxide. With this method identical incubation procedures could be used for both light and electron microscope examination. Eosinophils were the only cells which contained alkaline phosphatase. The enzyme was predominantly associated with the outer surface of the plasma membrane, being present in much lower concentrations in cytoplasmic cisternae. Eosinophil granules only rarely showed reaction product. The plasma membrane location of alkaline phosphatase in eosinophil leucocytes is identical to that recently demonstrated in the human neutrophil.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D002462 Cell Membrane The lipid- and protein-containing, selectively permeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Plasma Membrane,Cytoplasmic Membrane,Cell Membranes,Cytoplasmic Membranes,Membrane, Cell,Membrane, Cytoplasmic,Membrane, Plasma,Membranes, Cell,Membranes, Cytoplasmic,Membranes, Plasma,Plasma Membranes
D003593 Cytoplasm The part of a cell that contains the CYTOSOL and small structures excluding the CELL NUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIA; and large VACUOLES. (Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990) Protoplasm,Cytoplasms,Protoplasms
D003594 Cytoplasmic Granules Condensed areas of cellular material that may be bounded by a membrane. Cytoplasmic Granule,Granule, Cytoplasmic,Granules, Cytoplasmic
D004804 Eosinophils Granular leukocytes with a nucleus that usually has two lobes connected by a slender thread of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing coarse, round granules that are uniform in size and stainable by eosin. Eosinophil
D000469 Alkaline Phosphatase An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of an orthophosphoric monoester and water to an alcohol and orthophosphate. EC 3.1.3.1.
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D051381 Rats The common name for the genus Rattus. Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus

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