METHODS: Sequential staining and high resolution imaging were used to study freshly prepared cryo-sections from 10 patients with histologically confirmed steatohepatitis using oil red O for fat droplet identification, H&E to identify ballooning, and anti-K18 to confirm cytoskeletal changes.ONCLUSIONS: These results indicate a relationship between cellular ballooning, fat droplet accumulation, and cytoskeletal injury in NASH. We speculate that injury to multiple, organelles including fat droplets and endoplasmic reticulum, contribute to this characteristic finding.
In Minnesota, the most commonly affected woody plants are roses (Rosa spp. ), willow (Salix spp. ), poplar (Populus spp. ) and fruit trees like apple (Malus spp. ), cherry, plum or apricot (Prunus spp. ). All of these plants are highly susceptible to crown gall.rown gall is caused by the bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This pathogen is found on more than 600 different species of plants worldwide including many common vegetables, weeds, deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.
1. Search each one of your fruit trees of the genus Prunus in winter for signs of this disease. When the tree is first infected, black knot disease presents as small galls or olive-green swellings. The following growing season, the galls turn into large black knots.