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Hydrophobic forces tend to exclude water as in the old saying 'oil and water don't mix'. As lipid droplets accumulate and enlarge, the same hydrophobic forces tend to make them fuse together to form larger droplets which may eventually occupy the entire cytoplasm and push the nucleus to the edge of the cell, as in adipocytes (fat cells) (see Fig. 16). Note also that lipid droplets do not have a limiting membrane in contrast to mitochondria M, the nucleus N and secretory granules S of the 'dense core' type that are characteristic of neuroendocrine cells (see Ch.
23 Intermediate filaments and microtubules EM: LS ×40 000 Fig. 23 Intermediate filaments and microtubules (a) EM: TS ×53 000 (b) EM: LS ×40 000 These micrographs are taken from nervous tissue; nerve cells contain both intermediate filaments and microtubules, allowing comparison of size and morphology. Each nerve cell has an elongated cytoplasmic extension called an axon (see Ch. 7), which in the peripheral nervous system is ensheathed by a supporting Schwann cell. Micrograph (a) shows an axon in transverse section wrapped in the cytoplasm of a Schwann cell S.
Histochemical methods can be used to demonstrate sites of enzyme activity within cells and thus act as markers for organelles that contain these enzymes. Such a method has been used in micrograph (c) to demonstrate the presence of acid phosphatase, a typical lysosomal enzyme; enzyme activity is represented by the electron-dense area within a lysosome L. Other organelles remain unstained, but the outline of a mitochondrion M and saccules of endoplasmic reticulum ER can nevertheless be identified.