Scanning Electron Microscopy of Vascular Casts: Methods and Applications

1. Historical review and technical survey of vascular casting and scanning electron microscopy.- 2. Routine methods for vascular casting and SEM.- 3. Microvascular corrosion casting in angiogenesis research.- 4. Corrosion cast technique applied to lymphatic pathways.- 5. Blood and lymphatic microvascular organization of the digestive tract.- 6. Three-dimensional architecture of blood, lymphatic, and biliary pathways in the liver by SEM of corrosion casts.- 7. Morphological features of absorbing peripheral lymphatic vessels studied by TEM, SEM, and three-dimensional models.- 8. Relationship of blood microvasculature to structure and function in lymphoid tissue.- 9. Open and closed circulation in the spleen as evidenced by SEM of vascular casts.- 10. The lung microstructure.- 11. Postnatal development and growth of the pulmonary microvasculature.- 12. Microvasculature of bone and bone marrow.- 13. Pericyte topography of the microvasculature of skeletal muscle: Correlated analysis of corrosion casts and KOH-digested specimens.- 14. Blood vascular casting in cardiac and skeletal muscle.- 15. Vasculature of the carotid body as observed by scanning electron microscopy of vascular casts.- 16. Organization and age-related changes of the rat hypophyseal blood vascular plexuses and portal vessels as observed by the injection replica SEM method.- 17. Blood vascular casts of the thyroid gland in normal and experimental conditions.- 18. Blood vascular beds of rabbit uterus and oviduct: A study of corrosion casts by scanning electron microscopy.- 19. The ovary: Three-dimensional morphodynamics of the luteo-follicular complex by SEM of corrosion casts and other EM techniques.- 20. Structural and functional aspects of placental microvasculature.- 21. Three-dimensional microvascular architecture of the testis and excurrent duct system studied by corrosion casting-scanning electron microscopy.- 22. Blood vessels of the eye and their changes in diabetes.- 23. Effects of antigen stimulation and irradiation on the blood vascular system of murine lymph nodes.- 24. The fundamental vascular structures in epithelial cancer demonstrated in an experimental lung carcinoma.- 25. Angiomorphology of the human larynx and renal carcinoma. A comparative study.- 26. Interpretation of endothelial structure related to tumor and atherosclerotic blood vessels.