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The morphology of cultured melanophores from tadpoles of Xenopus laevis: scanning electron microscopical observations.
Seldenrijk R, Berendsen W, Hup DR, van de Veerdonk FC.
???displayArticle.abstract??? Tail-fin melanophores of tadpoles of Xenopus laevis (Daudin) in primary culture were examined scanning electron microscopically in the aggregated and in the dispersed state. After isolation, the melanophores are spherical, but within 24 h they develop thin filopodia for attachment to the substratum. Subsequently, cylinder-like as well as flat sheet-like processes are formed, which adhere to the substratum with terminal pseudopodia and filopodia. The processes of adjacent melanophores contact each other, thus forming an interconnecting network between the melanophores. In the aggregated state the central part of the melanophore is spherical and voluminous. Both the central part and the processes bear microvilli. In melanophores with dispersed melanosomes the central part is much flatter; the distal parts have a thickness that equals a monolayer of melanosomes. The surface of the cell bears only scarce microvilli. These features indicate that melanophores do not have a fixed shape and that pigment migration is accompanied by reciprocal volume transformation between the cell body and its processes.
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