Growing cartilage after IR laser radiation-ultrastructural study

摘要

Abstract: The ultrastructural alterations of the chondrocytes in the growing cartilage after radiation by IR laser at a dose of 2 J/cm$+2$/ are described. Twenty albino Wistar rats have been used. The radiation was carried out on the left knee of the animals. Consequently, the animals were killed, and as soon as the pieces had been obtained they were subjected to the conventional techniques of fixation and inclusion for electron microscopy. Their ER is scarcely developed with disrupted and dilated cisternae noting few secretory vesicles in relation to the control animals. Likewise, degenerative phenomena in the mitochondria membranes and the endomembrane system were observed, in the shape of myelin. In the chondrocytes of the contralateral knee, few alterations were noted in relation to the controls. !22