TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Biopsy
KW - Endothelium
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Inclusion Bodies
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Microscopy, Electron
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Phlebitis
KW - Pinocytosis
KW - Veins
AU - Mukherjee A
AU - Misra R S
AU - Sharma A K
AB - <p>An ultrastructural study on vein biopsies from six lepromatous leprosy patients was carried out. The results showed that a) the lumen-lining bacillated cells were endothelial in origin due to the presence of specific Weibel-Palade endothelial cell granules; b) endothelial cells released Mycobacterium leprae into the lumen by exophagocytosis; c) M. leprae were able to grow and multiply in the endothelial and smooth muscle cells; and d) smooth muscle cells did not show any evidence of reaction due to the presence of M. leprae in their cytoplasm.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3003213?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1985 Dec
IS - 4
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>An ultrastructural study on vein biopsies from six lepromatous leprosy patients was carried out. The results showed that a) the lumen-lining bacillated cells were endothelial in origin due to the presence of specific Weibel-Palade endothelial cell granules; b) endothelial cells released Mycobacterium leprae into the lumen by exophagocytosis; c) M. leprae were able to grow and multiply in the endothelial and smooth muscle cells; and d) smooth muscle cells did not show any evidence of reaction due to the presence of M. leprae in their cytoplasm.</p>
PY - 1985
SP - 571
EP - 6
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Ultrastructure of leprous phlebitis.
VL - 53
SN - 0148-916X
ER -