Journal article
Smooth muscle membrane vesicle orientation: a study on intactness and sidedness of rat myometrium plasma membrane vesicles
Abstract
Plasma membrane vesicles of rat myometrium were prepared in media containing 240 mM sucrose. The vesicles were exposed to isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic sucrose concentrations, fixed, sectioned, and studied using the electron microscope. The vesicles fixed in isotonic media were circular in appearance. Vesicles fixed in hypertonic media were distorted and showed a reduced volume to surface ratio consistent with the hypothesis that greater …
Authors
Grover AK; Crankshaw J; Garfield RE; Daniel EE
Journal
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 1202–1211
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Publication Date
October 1, 1980
DOI
10.1139/y80-183
ISSN
0008-4212