Daily Archives: April 20, 2018

Mitochondria: parietal cells are mitochondria – rich

Mitochondria: parietal cells are mitochondria – rich as I see this counting up numbers of these organelles in cells while also tabulating the number of mitochondria which are tethered to desmosomes.  They are large, fat and everywhere, occupying much of the cytoplasm (as opposed to other cells where there are secretory granules or RER and ER machinery. They are quite close to all plasmalemma designations,  e.g. apical, lateral and basal, and even the canalular membranes BUT leaving a consistent small critical space between them.

Just adding a note, they really are sparsely populated with desmosomes and also with desmosomal-mitochondrial tethers — which is surprising i think and out of thosands of mitochondria counted in parietal cells only a few are tethered to desmosomes on the lateral membranes of parietal cells.

In this toluidine blue stained plastic 1 micron thick section you can see the darkish greenish dots around the pale looking canaliculi of parietal cells (arrows) nested closely and packed between the membrane structures.

 

Young Sheldon: april 19 2018 episode

If i had a rating scale for TV serials  i would rate Young Sheldon way up there at the top with a 10 if the scale is 1-5 (haha). It is so full of great language, great puns, great human assessment, and dilemmas that it tickles the soul and lifts the spirit.  Last nights episode with guest star Wallace Shawn as an eccentric old physicist, but not to old to find Mema disarming was a treasure that made me smile, and laugh, and re-think it again and again. Iain Armitage is a terrific little actor.

It would be wonderful if all life’s problems could be this amusing.