Stereological analysis of the female breast alveolar ductulus epithelial cells in premenopause and postmenopause
Mehmedagić-Alicelebić, S.; Krivokuća, Z.
Acta Medica Croatica Casopis Hravatske Akademije Medicinskih Znanosti 46(1): 5-8
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 1330-0164 PMID: 1380360 Document Number: 400165
Stereological characteristics of the ductular parenchyma epithelial cells were analysed ultrastructurally in 18 cases of normal breast tissue. Different physiological states were compared in the premenopause and postmenopause. The volume density (Vv), surface density (Sv) and specific surface density (Sv/Vv) of nuclei and the epithelial cell cytoplasm were stereologically examined and compared. After a menopause a slight decrease of the volume density (Vvj), surface density (Svj) and specific surface density (Svj/Vvj) of epithelial cell nuclei was noted, while the volume density (Vvc), surface density (Svc) and the specific surface density (Svc/Vvc) of the epithelial cell cytoplasm were slightly increased.