Quantitative ultrastructure of isolated Kupffer cells of rat liver.
The average volume of isolated Kupffer cells of rat liver is 821 +/- 64 microns 3, the average surface being 423 +/- 24 microns 2 (599 microns 2, with cell processes included). The surface structure (pseudopodia, lamellipodia, filopodia, microvilli) of isolated cells is much less developed than that of Kupffer cells in situ. By morphometric characterization volume densities are 0.1264 +/- 0.0077 (SE) for mitochondria and 0.3591 +/- 0.0169 for lysosomal structures. The volume of mitochondria amount to 0.79 +/- 0.04 microns 3.
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D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D007728:Kupffer Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure; D015388:Organelles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains