The origin of neutral fats from the Golgi apparatus of the spermatid of the dog

✍ Scribed by A. W. Bell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1929
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 779 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-2525
• DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1050480213

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

By the use of a new technique it was possible to demonstrate the Golgi granules about the idiosome of spermatids and in the so‐called Golgi bead of the mature spermatozoon. Other osmiophile granules in the cytoplasm, assumed to be Golgi granules, aggregate during metamorphosis into groups which formed neutral fat spheres, giving stains with both sudan III and scharlach R. Evidence is adduced supporting the view that the Golgi apparatus is a lipin and probably a phospholipin. The fat spheres produced are probably a result of fatty degeneration in the residual body of the spermatid. They may also serve as the source of lipin in Popa's ‘Lipo‐gel’ phenomenon.