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Winter-spring essential reorganization of cell proliferation in the digestive tract epithelia in the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus

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A study of the seasonal dynamics of cell proliferation in the digestive tract epithelia of the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus (Bivalvia) collected in the Sea of Japan between 1971 and 1984 revealed two opposite states so far unknown for marine molluscan tissues: proliferative resting in winter and a following outburst of cell division in spring. In winter and early spring (at water temperatures below or near 0°C), mitotic figures in the lining epithelia of labial palps and intestine strongly reduced in number and later almost disappeared (February-March); DNA-synthesizing cells in these epithelia on thymidine radioautographs became sparse and only a restricted number of new cells entered the cell cycle. A proliferation block was relieved at the beginning of April (at a temperature of 2 to 4°C): an initiation of a many-fold increase in the mitotic index and some increase in the 3H-T-labelled nuclei index and their advance to the maximum in late April to May (up to more than 0.2 and 5 to 6%, accordingly) were found. In late spring (at temperatures of 5 to 10°C), a striking rise in the number of cells entering the cell cycle was observed with a probable acceleration of the cycle proper. Both seasonal states of cell proliferation — a deep depression and outburst, established in the winter-spring period are interpreted as essential events in the life cycle of the mussel studied.

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Leibson, N.L., Frolova, L.T. Winter-spring essential reorganization of cell proliferation in the digestive tract epithelia in the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus . Marine Biology 118, 471–477 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350304

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