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J Natl Cancer Inst. 1978 Aug;61(2):551-61.

The respiratory epithelium. II. Hamster trachea, bronchus, and bronchioles.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

P J Becci, E M McDowell, B F Trump

PMID: 355650

Abstract

The normal female hamster respiratory epithelium at five airway levels was characterized with the use of coordinated morphologic and histochemical techniques. Five morphologic cell types were recognized in the trachea, stem bronchi, and primary bronchl: basal cells and neurosecretory cells that were basally located and did not reach the lumen and mucous cells [mucous goblet cells and small mucous granule cells (SMGC)], indifferent cells showing mucous-ciliary differentiation, and ciliated cells that reached the lumen. Two epithelial cell types were observed in the bronchioles, ciliated cells and nonciliated Clara cells, both of which reached the lumen. Mucous cells presented as either SMGC with a few small periodic acid-Schiff-positive granules (diastase-resistant neutral mucosubstances) or as goblet cells, filled with the same material. Mucous cells were columnar, and the cytoplasm was electron-dense and contained a well-developed endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex. The microvilli of the mucous cells were coated more thickly with colloidal iron than either the cilia or microvilli of ciliated cells. Approximately one-half the cells in the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles were ciliated. Ciliated cells containing intracellular ciliated cysts with normal cilia projecting into a closed space or ciliated cells bearing compound cilia were observed infrequently. Neurosecretory cells were rarely observed. These cells contained characteristic dense-core granules.

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