Serotoninergic endings on VIP-neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and on ACTH-neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the rat hypothalamus. A combination of high resolution autoradiography and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry

1984 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kiss ◽  
Cs. Léránth ◽  
B. Halász
1984 ◽  
Vol 302 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Ibata ◽  
F. Kawakami ◽  
K. Fukui ◽  
H.L. Obata-Tsuto ◽  
M. Tanaka ◽  
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Development ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Par Claude Chapron

Evidence for the role of an apical cap glycoprotein in amphibian regeneration: cytochemical and autoradiographic electron-microscopic studies Early during limb regeneration in the newt, an ectodermal apical cap covering a mesodermal blastema is formed. High-resolution autoradiography of these tissues has been carried out after incorporation of [3H]fucose, which is a precursor of glycoproteins. Autoradiography shows that silver particles are located at first on epithelial cells, then on mesenchymatous cells. This observation is consistent with a hypothesis in which the apical cap would elaborate a glycoprotein acting on the blastema. Substructural autoradiography and cytochemistry also show the importance of cellular surfaces for both cells producing glycoprotein and those which are target cells.


1971 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 304-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH R. WILLIAMSON ◽  
HANK VAN DEN BOSCH

A simple method is described for the preparation and use of stripping film of high quality for electron microscopic applications of autoradiography. The advantages of the method are: ( a) uniform monolayers of emulsion are easily prepared with an inexpensive mechanical device and applied to thin sections on conventional grids; ( b) both sides of grids can be coated with emulsion, permitting a potential doubling of sensitivity with, theoretically, no loss of resolution; and ( c) large numbers of grids can be processed simultaneously, assuring identical conditions of development.


1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 565-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAPANI VANHA-PERTTULA ◽  
PHILIP M. GRIMLEY

A reproducible procedure was devised in order to measure the extraction of 3H-labeled cellular products during aldehyde fixation and subsequent processing for electron microscopic autoradiography. Human carcinoma cell monolayers were cultivated in combustible plastic wells, so that all label could be counted as 3H2O. Radioisotope extraction during individual steps of processing could be analyzed and separate groups of experiments were directly comparable. Initial aldehyde fixation and subsequent buffer washes caused the major loss of radiolabeled amino acids, but this never exceeded 15% under conventional conditions. Radioisotope losses were influenced by the relative duration of fixation and buffer washes, fixation temperature and fixative concentration. Formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde both produced a nonspecific, time-related binding effect when 3H-labeled amino acids were introduced along with the fixative. Less significant nonspecific binding was observed when 3H-mannose, 3H-uridine or 3H-thymidine was added. Extraction of radioisotopes during formaldehyde fixation of cell cultures labeled with protein precursors was consistently greater than during glutaraldehyde fixation. Differences were less marked with the other precursors. Evaluation of the total protein extraction is complex, since the net losses observed were apparently the sum of precursor extraction, nonspecific amino acid binding and real molecular extraction. The implications for quantitative interpretative interpretation of high resolution autoradiography must be considered.


1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien G. Caro ◽  
Robert P. van Tubergen

Methods used in obtaining high resolution in autoradiography, with special emphasis on the technique of electron microscopic autoradiography, are described, together with control experiments designed to establish the optimum conditions or procedures. On the basis of these experiments the emulsion selected was Ilford L-4, with a crystal size slightly larger than 0.1 micron. It is applied to the specimen in the form of a gelled film consisting of a monolayer of silver halide crystals. Background, when present, can be eradicated by a simple method. The preparations can be stored, in presence of a drying agent, at room temperature or in a refrigerator. Photographic development is done in Microdol, or in a special fine grain "physical" developer. For examination in the electron microscope the sections are stained with uranyl or lead stains. These methods give a good localization of the label, at the subcellular level, and good reproducibility in relative grain counts.


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