Immunohistochemical and biochemical study on the development of the noradrenaline- and adrenaline-storing cells of the adrenal medulla of the rat

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A. A. J. Verhofstad1, R. E. Coupland2,1, T. R. Parker2,1, M. Goldstein3,1
1Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Department of Human Morphology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
3Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

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The pre- and postnatal development of the adrenal medulla was examined in the rat by immunohistochemistry and by assay of catecholamines. Immunohistochemistry involved the use of antibodies to noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A) and the biosynthesizing enzymes dopamine β-hydroxylase (DBH) and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT). Adrenal glands were obtained from animals from the 16th day of gestation to the 7th postnatal day at daily intervals, and at the 14th postnatal day, and from adult rats. Tissues were fixed in ice-cold, 4% paraformaldehyde, buffered at pH 7.3. Cryostat sections (7 μm) were stained with the indirect immunofluorescence technique. Adrenals from the same developmental stages were assayed for the presence of DA (dopamine), NA and A by ion-pair reversed-phase liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection. In adult adrenals the majority of the medullary cells (approximately 80%) were highly immunoreactive to A and moderately immunoreactive to NA. They also showed immunoreactivity to both DBH and PNMT, i.e., they are synthesizing and storing A. The remaining cell clusters were only stained by antibodies to DBH and NA (NA-synthesizing and -storing cells). These findings correlate well with the relative concentrations of A and NA as determined by assay. Three developmental phases could be distinguished. In the first phase, the 16th and 17th prenatal day, medullary cells were only immunoreactive to DBH and NA, and only very small amounts of A as compared to NA were found. During the second period, from the 18th prenatal day to 2 or 3 days after birth, all medullary cells were immunoreactive to DBH, NA, PNMT and A, and during this phase the adrenaline concentration increased daily and became the predominant amine on the 20th day of gestation. Adrenaline represented 75% of total catecholamine on the 1st to 3rd day after birth. The third phase started at the 2nd or 3rd postnatal day and was characterized by the presence of an increasing number of medullary cells solely immunoreactive to DBH and NA, hence synthesizing and storing NA. The remaining cells were immunoreactive to DBH, NA, PNMT and A. Postnatally, the relative concentration of A continued to rise reaching 79% by the 4th postnatal day. These results indicate that initially the adrenal medullary cells are synthesizing and storing almost exclusively NA. Probably, adrenaline synthesis begins at the 16th–17th day of gestation and the cells are then capable of synthesizing and storing both NA and A (“mixed cell type”) with A synthesis and storage rapidly becoming predominant. Finally, after birth, separate NA-synthesizing and -storing cell types are formed and the so-called A cells stored predominantly (probably >90%) adrenaline with a small proportion of noradrenaline. In the medullary blastema and in the sympathetic ganglia of prenatal animals two cell types, only immunoreactive to DBH and NA, were observed. Presumably, these cells represent developing sympathetic neurons and extra-adrenal chromaffin cells; the latter cell type occasionally invades the adrenal gland. Thus, prospective medullary cells are able to synthesize and store NA before they have made contact with the cortical blastema but A-synthesizing cells are found only within the adrenal gland. Low but significant amounts of DA were found in the adrenal before birth and during the first two postnatal weeks but in the adult animal this accounted for less than 0.1% of total catecholamine.

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