The Relationship between the Ionic Composition of the Environment and the Secretory Activity of the Endocrine Cell Types of Stannius Corpuscles in the Teleost Gasterosteus aculeatus

The corpuscles of Stannius of threespined sticklebacks contain two glandular cell types of presumed endocrine nature. To elucidate the function of both cell types the secretory activity of the cells was studied in fully adapted seawater and freshwater fishes and in specimens transferred from sea water to fresh water or adapted to media of various ionic composition. The secretory activity was established, in tissue sections and freeze-etch replicas, by estimating the volume of the nuclei, the density of the nuclear pores, and the frequency of exocytotic phenomena. The type-1 cells, ultrastructurally comparable to the predominant or only cell type described in many other teleosts, are more active in sea water than in fresh water. The activity of the type-2 cells, whose ultrastructural appearance is known only for salmonids and eels, is higher in fresh water. Transfer of seawater fishes to fresh water results in reduction of type-1 cells and activation of type-2 cells. The factors responsible for these changes were analyzed by exposure of fishes to solutions of various salts in fresh water and to artificial sea water with a reduced content of one of its components. The high activity of type-1 cells in sea water proved to be related to the high calcium content of this medium. These cells probably produce a substance comparable to hypocalcin, the endocrine factor isolated from the Stannius corpuscles of some other teleost species. The high activity of type-2 cells in fresh water appeared to be connected with the low sodium and potassium levels of this medium. Type-2 cells possibly produce a hitherto unknown hormone involved in the control of sodium and/or potassium metabolism

Relationship betwee prolactin cell activity, environmental calcium, and plasma calcium in teleost gasterosteus-aculeatus-observations on stanniecromized fish

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A second cell type in stannius bodies of two euryhaline teleost species

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Relationship between external and internal calcium concentrations and prolactin cell activity in a euryhaline teleost

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Relationship between ionic composition of environment and secretory activity of the endocrine cell types of Stannius-corpuscles in teleost Gasterosteus-aculeatus

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Morphometrical study with light and electron -microscope o role in ionic regulation of 2 endocrine cell-types in stannius bodies of sticklebacks

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Morphometrical study with light and electron -microscope o role in ionic regulation of 2 endocrine cell-types in stannius bodies of sticklebacks

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