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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 104, 174-180, Copyright © 1981 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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APUD cells in teratomas

FT Bosman and JW Louwerens

The origin of the endocrine cells in the respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal tract is still a matter of debate. In the original concept of the amine precursor uptake and decarboxylation (APUD) system, all APUD cells were considered to be derived from the neural crest. More recently it has been proposed that the APUD cell types of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts originate from neuroendocrine-programmed ectoblast. Still other investigators have reported observations that favor a direct endodermal origin of these cell types. Based on the assumption that in teratomas different tissue types which in normal embryogenesis are derived from the neuroectoderm might be expected to occur together, we investigated a series of cystic ovarian teratomas and testicular teratocarcinomas for the presence of brain tissue and of different types of APUD cells. In the ovarian teratomas, intestinal and respiratory APUD cell types were found almost exclusively without coexistence of brain tissue, whereas melanocytes, which are of neuroectodermal origin, occurred mostly together with brain tissue. In the testicular teratocarcinomas, intestinal types of APUD cells occurred without brain tissue. Peptide hormone production was found in appropriate tissues. It can therefore be concluded that in teratomas appropriate intestinal and respiratory APUD cells differentiate in and presumably descend directly from intestinal and respiratory epithelium.




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