title: Ultrastructure of goat testes: crystalloid in the microbody of Sertoli cells.
abstract: During the morphological study of goat spermatogenesis, an electron dense core was noticed in the microbody of the Sertoli cell in adult animals. By means of a goniometer apparatus fitted to the electron microscope, tilting 30 degrees unidirection, the dense core frequently displayed a characteristic checker pattern as a crystalloid or crystal. The size of the lattices in the crystalloid was found to be 6.6 nm lattice rods with 16.7 nm intervals (n = 48). In this report, the structure and function of the crystalloid construction is discussed; and the results suggested, as did former reports, that it may be a kind of peroxisome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kojima
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D003460:Crystallization; D006041:Goats / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D015388:Organelles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012708:Sertoli Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012741:Sexual Maturation; D013737:Testis / Q000254:growth & development / Q000648:ultrastructure*