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- Title
Scanning and transmission electron microscopic observation of femoral head feeding vessels in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- Authors
Amemiya, Masahide; Yashiro, Takashi; Kikuchi, Motoshi; Kouki, Tom; Nakama, Sueo; Hoshino, Yuichi
- Abstract
Stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) are known to show necrosis of the femoral head with a frequency of about 50%. This rat has thus been used as an animal model for necrosis of the femoral head in many studies. In a detailed investigation of feeding vessel disorders that cause femoral head necrosis, we observed changes over time in the feeding vessels using scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. In scanning electron microscopy of vascular casts, abnormal findings in feeding vessels of SHRSP with aging from the immature stage included contortion and bending in the lumen with overall narrowing. Under transmission electron microscopy, decreased numbers of smooth muscle cells and increased amounts of collagen fibers were marked, and these changes with hypertrophy of vascular walls might be similar to those of arteriolosclerosis. The structural changes first revealed by transmission electron microscopic observation might cause the friability of the feeding vessels so that contortion and bending occurred, suggesting transient obstruction of blood flow to the femoral head and subsequent induction of femoral head necrosis. These findings should help in understanding the causes of femoral head necrosis in humans, including Perthes' disease.
- Subjects
SCANNING electron microscopy; TRANSMISSION electron microscopy; FEMORAL artery; BLOOD vessels; LABORATORY rats; CEREBROVASCULAR disease; NECROSIS; MUSCLE cells; HYPERTROPHY
- Publication
Medical Molecular Morphology, 2011, Vol 44, Issue 3, p139
- ISSN
1860-1480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00795-010-0518-z