ANALYSIS OF CHANGES AND ACCUMULATION OF LIPOFUSCIN PIGMENT IN CELLS OF THORACIC GANGLIA OF SYMPATHETIC TRUNK DURING AGING

T. Filipović ,
T. Filipović

Medical faculty Priština , Kosovska Mitrovica , Kosovo*

Z. Vitošević ,
Z. Vitošević

Medical faculty Priština , Kosovska Mitrovica , Kosovo*

P. Mandić ,
P. Mandić

Medical faculty Priština , Kosovska Mitrovica , Kosovo*

N. Đukić ,
N. Đukić

Medical faculty Priština , Kosovska Mitrovica , Kosovo*

M. Milisavljević ,
M. Milisavljević

Medical faculty Niš , Niš , Serbia

P. Stefanović
P. Stefanović

Medical faculty Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia

Published: 01.01.2010.

Volume 38, Issue 1 (2010)

pp. 57-60;

https://doi.org/10.70949/pramed201001326F

Abstract

In the region of the thorax there are ten till twelve ganglia (ganglia thoracica); wich are white; triangle and irregular shape; rarely fusiform (spindle-shaped) or round. In the upper part of the thorax; ganglia are located in front of of the neck of ribs (collum costae); and in the middle part they are in front of head of ribs (caput costae). In the lower parts; they are near the vertebral bodies; therefore both of the trunks are slightly convergent. In this part; there are no branches which connected both sides of the sympathetic trunk. Lipofucin is yellow-brown; autofluorescent pigment; accumulated during aging in the lysosome of postmitotic cells; such as neurons.

Keywords

References

1.
Brody H, Vijayashankar N. Anatomical change in the nervous system. In: Handbook of the Biology of Aging. p. 246–61.
2.
Brunk U, Ericsson JL. Electron microscopical studies on brain neurons: Localisations of acid phosphatase and mode of formation of lipofuscin bodies. J Ultrastruct Res. 38:1–15.
3.
Pick J. Pigment, abnormal mitochondrial, and laminar bodies in human sympathetic neurones. Z Zellforsch. 82:118–35.
4.
Terman A, Brunk UT. Lipofuscin: mechanisms of formation and increase with age. APMIS. Feb;106(2):265-276.

Citation

Copyright

Article metrics

Google scholar: See link

The statements, opinions and data contained in the journal are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s). We stay neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Most read articles

Indexed by