Pathogenesis of Heterogeneity in Human Multinodular Goiter
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Functional and morphologic heterogeneity ofhuman multinodular goiters was investigated in 300 samples from "cold" and "hot" regions of 20 goiters transplanted onto nude mice. Transplants were labeled with [Hjthymidine and radioiodine, while the host's thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion was either stimulated or suppressed. Proliferation and function of follicular cells were assessed in whole follicles reconstructed from autoradiographs of serial sections. Hot transplants had a higher autonomous iodine uptake than those of cold tissue in TSH-suppressed hosts. Functional autonomy widely varied among the follicles, but even more so among individual cells. Hot grafts differed from cold ones only by a comparatively larger fraction of autonomous cells. Intercellular differences of iodinating activity were not abolished by TSH. Grafts faithfully reproduced the individual growth pattern of the original tissue. Between 0.5% and 7% of all follicular cells replicated despite suppression ofTSH. Up to 70% of these cells were clustered, forming scattered foci of autonomously growing tissue. Other cells only started replicating after long-term TSH stimulation. Thus, goiters contained subsets of cells with high and others with low growth response. Progenies of replicating cells remained clustered, sometimes budding outwards to form new follicles. Autonomy of growth and autonomy of function are independent traits of epithelial cells. Epithelial cells have their individual growth pattern, replication rate, and functional capacity. These traits are passed on from a mother cell to its progeny during follicle neogenesis. To this main mechanism accounting for the morphologic and functional heterogeneity of human goiters, inheritable modifications of gene expression must probably be
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تاریخ انتشار 2013