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The ultrastructure of the cellular contacts and bile canaliculi was examined in cultured neonatal (day 5) rat hepatocytes to elucidate the development of cellular polarity. A new scanning electron microscopic technique for cultured hepatocytes allowed a view of cell-cell attachment and the entire cell surface, including the underside on plastic dishes. At 3 h after plating, neonatal hepatocytes were shown to be round, with loss of the preferential localization of cell organelles. After 6 h of culture, the cells had become oblong; they were aggregated in groups of several cells and the cellular contacts were not as rigid or as straight as those in adult hepatocytes. Transmission electron microscopy showed the biliary functional polarity to be like that in vivo. On the undersurfaces of adjacent neonatal hepatocytes a hemicanalicular structure lined with microvilli was found, which probably corresponds to the ultrastructure of bile canaliculi in vivo. However, no canaliculi or orifices of bile channels were found in adult hepatocytes. These results suggest that in neonatal rat hepatocytes the formation of tight rigid cellular contacts was suppressed. Modulation of cell membranes appeared on the undersurfaces of neonatal hepatocytes in early culture stages. The differences in the development of cellular polarity could be caused by the proliferating activity of neonatal hepatocytes.
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