[Lipid granularity and topographic characteristics of renomedullary interstitial cells in genetically spontaneous hypertension in rats].

Light microscopy was used to study lipid granularity of the renomedullary interstitial cells (IC) in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) aged 4 months and in Wistar rats (control) of the same age. Altogether 2000 IC were examined per animal on an average. The concentric distribution of the granular IC in the renal papilla was demonstrated. Lipid granularity of the IC was discovered to be lowered and the zone of granular IC to be enlarged in the whole papilla in SHR rats as compared with control. Also, the differences were found in lipid granularity of the IC in individual zones of the papilla in both SHR and normotensive animals, which seems likely to indicate different functional significance of the individual parts of the renal papilla.