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Anatomy and histology of hematopoietic tissues

[ Fish ]

1. Osteichthyes (3/28)
     --- Lecture note  

     --- Thymus
         Head kidney
         Spleen

     --- Smeared blood films
 

2. Chondrichthyes (3/28)

  1) Spleen
       --- Less developed white pulp

       --- Small lymphocyte
           RBC
           Ellipsoids

       --- Erythropoiesis and antibody production

  2) Thymus
       --- Multi-lobulated/ Able to differentiate into cortex and medulla  
        
       --- Small lymphocyte as a main
           Medium-sized lymphocyte

           Reticular cell
           Large eosinophilic cell
           Myoid cell
           Hassal's body

  3) Leydig and epigonal organs

       --- Nearly the same components between two

       --- Eosinophilic leukocyte
           Plasma cell
           Promyelocyte

           Lymphoblast


       --- Generally no function in erythropoiesis
           No Hassal's bodies generally proved


3. Cyclostome [ should be tried to get histological and ultrastructural photoes ]

  1) Primitive or intestinal spleen in myxiniformes

     (1) Granular cell as a main
            --- Corresponding to neutrophil

     (2) Reticular cell
     (3) Undifferentiated hemocyte or blood cells

  2) Circulating blood
        --- RBCs in myxiniformes suggesting that they are possibley produced within the circulating blood

  3) Pronephric central loci, Àü½ÅÁ߽ɼÒ

        --- Cellular components

             --- RBC
                 Lymphocyte
                 Granular cell
                 Phagocyte
     

        --- No plasma cell within it

 3) Hemopoiesis in lamprey
     --- Hemopoietic function remains only in ammocoetes and immature stages
          --- Eventual loss of hemopoietic function
               --- Non-parasitic period
                     --- Loss after metamorphosis

               --- Parasitic period
                     --- Loss since the time of liver-ascending

     --- Intestinal typhlosole
          --- Longitudianl elevation of mucosa
          --- Having sinusoids

          --- Granulocyte as a main
              RBC
              Macrophage
              Plasma cell
              Lymphocyte corresponding to mammalian B cell


[ Invertebrates ]

1) Molluscans  
    - Bivalvia
        - Clam/ Mussel/ Scallops/ Oysters

        - Hemopoietic tissue and hemocytes
           --- Arising form differentiation of connective tissue cells
                 --- But no stem cells nor any cell line of differentiations have been described
                     or well dfined.

                 --- Nothing known about the origin of blood pigments
                       --- Hemoglobin and hemocyanin

           --- Divided into hyalinocytes, granular lymphocyte-like cells and granulocytes or
               granular cells
                 --- Subgrouped for granulocytes according to their size of granules

           --- Described as ameboid cells
                 --- A well developed cytoskeleton of actin filaments

        # Pore cells
           --- Described as connective tissue cells in Crassostrea gigas (brown cells)and Mytilus edulis
           --- Differentiated from the epithleial podocytes
           --- Found with hemocytes in Pactinopecten caurinus in large numbers

    - Cephalopods
[photos ]
        - Octopus/ Sqpuids/ Fish cuttle
           --- Blood constitutes 6% of the body volume in octopods
                 --- Hemocytes
                       --- 1- 2% of the blood volume

                 --- Colloids;

                       --- Hemocyanin/ Glycoproteins of lectin groups/ Lipids/ Enzymes/ Hormones
                       --- Others

        - A leukopoietic organ of cephalopods known as " the white body "
           --- Also refered as the gland of Henson, gland of Faussek and the corps blanc
                --- Orbital pits behind the eyes
                --- Consisting of several lobes

           --- Histological and ultrastructural informations are available
                --- Interconnected between lobes by a sheet of collagen

                --- Lobes
                      --- Extensively folded, forming cords

                      --- Lumen of them
                            --- Mature leukocytes consisting of 2 major cell types
                                   --- Hemocytoblasts  
                                         --- Reticulum cell with large cytoplasmic volume, abundant rER
                                             and nucleoli

                                   --- Leukoblasts 
                                         --- Transformed from hemocytoblasts with decreases of cytoplasmic
                                             volume and of nuclear size

                                         --- Found in groups joined by intercellular bridges

                                         --- Mature leukoblasts (secondary leukoblasts)
                                                --- Large cell size/ Reorganization and folding of the nucleus/
                                                    Well-formed Golgi apparatus/ Remnants of rER

                 --- Sinuses of the white body
                      --- Detachment of leukocytes into them from cords
                      --- Connecting to the circulatory system


        - Hemocytes
            --- Granulocytes or amebocytes as synonymous terms
            --- Morphologically seem to be of one type

      - Optic gland stellate cells of octopuses

      - Vacuolized round cells
            --- Another type of cell possibly involved in defense mechanisms, as well as in storage
                of excretory metabolites

2) Crustacean
    - Decapods and crabs
        - Shrimps/ Lobsters/ Crayfish/ Crabs
     
      [ Anatomy ]
        - The dorsal part of the cardiac stomach
           --- Lymphoid organs?

          Ancillry sites in certain species
           --- Surrounding antennal artery
           --- The base of the first three pairs of maxillipeds in penaeid shrimp

       [ Histology ]
        - Hemopoietic nodules or organs in the epigastric region of the penaeid shrimp
          [ microscopic photo ]
            --- Two types of stem cells

        - Two patterns of organization
            1) Lobular pattern in crabs, crayfish and lobsters, and panaeid shrimp
                 --- Lobules
                       --- Composed of stem cells and maturing hemocytes
                              <--- Bounded by an intimal layer

                       --- Situated within a sheet of connective tissue overlying the stomach
                             --- Connective tissue in turn is covered by a thin intimal layer

                 --- Lobules in the hemopoietic tissue in the coxal segments of the maxillipeds
                     of the penaeid shrimp
                       --- Thicker than those in the other species
                       --- Up to 12 lobules in depth
                       --- Situated in spony connective tissue and lined by a thick layer of collagen fibres

            2) Nodular or tubular pattern in penaeid shrimp
                 --- Nodules
                       --- Lymphoid organ?
                            - If so, these nodules may not be hemopoietic.

                       --- Composed of highly branched blood vessels, each with developing hemocytes
                           forming a thickened wall

3) Urochordates
        - Sea squirt

 

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