par Stiennon, Jeanine-Anne;Drochmans, Pierre
Référence General and comparative endocrinology, 1, 3, page (286-294)
Publication Publié, 1961-09
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : The neurosecretory cells, extensively studied in Vertebrates, have been examined with electron microscopy in Phasmidae. In the different types of nerve cells examined, a characteristic association of multilayered Golgi membranes with ergastoplasmic elements and mitochondria has been observed. In the neurosecretory cells at different stages of secreting activity, the same Golgi-ergastoplasm-mitochondria association has been found and tentatively related to the neurosecretion process. These electron microscope observations are in agreement with the previous histochemical findings, which suggest a close relation between basophilia and osmiophilic structures of the cytoplasm and the neurosecretion. The submicroscopic neurosecretory granules, aggregated in clusters, constitute the granules observed by light microscopy. They appear under two types, the "rough" and the "smooth" granules. © 1961.