Daily Archives: May 4, 2016

Compare: Alveolar type II cell RER inclusion and Birbeck granule

Layered intracisternal protein granules in mammalian lung, Ultimate order, the cell

These two images, left is the same alveolar type II cell RER encased cisternal protein that has been made into a short edu-video on this site, and the one on the right is from Grassi et al, J Leuko Biology vol 64, 1998, which shows an intracisternal protein in a Langerhans cell (immune processing cell in the epidermis) called a Birbeck granule.  Some similarities, but many differences exist between these two particular collectin-protein-layered-RER inclusions.  The 100 nm marker shows the big difference in the size of the “between-RER-membrane boundaries for a single period, the one in the type II alveolar cell being more than 2 times wider.  Here is an image, and also a new video.

icb_birbeck

 

Eight (8) great tips for living: The Great 8

Breast cancer and the Environment newsletters

I made this video and rap (but I really don’t like my own voice here, it is too “old lady” and “preachy” and not at all like a rap, and if someone out there in cyberspace wants a volunteer project — send me recordings and i will make a new version with YOUR VOICE and post it) for the breast cancer and the environment research program (I was part of one grant in the program).  I learned that our greatest impact on health (breast cancer included) was most likely to be “what we eat” as that is our biggest environmental interface.  Here is the video (the graphics were a blast to create – using that fairly primitive animation program Swishmax 4, and of course my mainstay vector illustration program, CorelDRAW.