Histochemical demonstration of enzymes in rat liver during post-natal development

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Koudstaal ◽  
M. J. Hardonk

1979 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1582-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Klaushofer ◽  
H von Mayersbach

The suitability of freeze-substitution in n-butanol and paraffin embedding of tissues for the histochemical demonstration of 5'-nucleotidase was investigated and compared with commonly used preparation techniques, such as fresh frozen sections and cryostate sections of cold formalin and glutaraldehyde-fixed rat liver. The influences of each step of the preparation techniques on the enzyme activity were controlled by a quantitative radiochemical assay. Freeze substitution was revealed to be superior to the commonly used preparation techniques with respect to: 1) high sensitivity and specificity of the histochemical 5'-nucleotidase reaction (this is based on the fact that incubation media with very low lead concentrations (0,6 mM/1) can be used); 2) excellent morphological appearance of the tissues showing cytological details of enzyme localization; 3) unlimited storage of the tissue materials and ease of sectioning.



1985 ◽  
Vol 68 (s11) ◽  
pp. 63P-63P
Author(s):  
W Vogel ◽  
SP Young ◽  
A Bomford ◽  
Roger Williams


1993 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Fujii ◽  
K. Shimizu ◽  
M. Satoh ◽  
M. Fujita ◽  
Y. Fujioka ◽  
...  




1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. ABRAHAMSON ◽  
J. L. RIGATUSO ◽  
A. LAZAROW

The Wachstein-Meisel lead sulfide precipitation method was used for the histochemical demonstration of glucose 6-phosphatase activity in fresh-frozen normal rat liver sections. Transmittances, microspectrophotometrically determined over cytoplasmic areas of stained sections, were used to calculate the optical density of the stain. In spite of the fact that no absorption maximum was found, the spectrum of glucose 6-phosphatase stain showed proportional increases with increased incubation time. The extinction at a fixed wavelength was shown to be a linear function of incubation time. Studies in which normal tissues were incubated in buffer-substrate and then removed and reincubated for an additional period of time in buffer-substrate containing a specific inhibitor of glucose 6-phosphatase indicate that the increase in optical density of the stain was a result of glucose 6-phosphatase activity.



1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAOKI HARADA ◽  
KAZUHIKO OKABE ◽  
KAZUTOSHI SHIBATA ◽  
HIROTAKE MASUDA ◽  
KEIKO MIYATA ◽  
...  


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