scholarly journals THE HISTOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BLOOD GROUP SUBSTANCES A AND B IN MAN

1960 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 785-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron E. Szulman

The mapping out of the histologic distribution of blood group antigens A and B in human tissues was performed by means of the fluorescent antibody technique. Human hyperimmune sera were conjugated with fluorescein isocyanate and applied to frozen sections of human material obtained at autopsy or after surgical removal. The material examined encompassed A, B, and AB subjects. In the latter the anti-A and the anti-B conjugate elicited the same picture. Group O tissues were used for controls and were uniformly negative. The secretor status of subjects was determined from the saliva or by the Lewis typing of erythrocytes. The results fall into the following main divisions: Endothelia of Vessels.—Widespread localization was demonstrated in the cell walls of endothelium of capillaries, veins, arteries, and of sinusoidal cells of spleen. Stratified Epithelia.—These showed good outlining of cells of the Malpighian (and the granular, when present) layers. In transitional epithelia, cells of the basal and contiguous layers gave specific staining. Mucus-Secreting Apparatus.—Positive staining was obtained in glands, goblet cells, and secreting surface epithelia. In non-secretors there was no identifiable antigen with the important exception of the deeper parts of gastric foveolae, deeper parts of crypts of Lieberkühn of bowel mucosa and Brunner's glands of the duodenum. Various Organs of Secretion and Excretion.—The pancreas (exocrine portion) and the sweat glands were found to produce the antigen irrespectively of secretor status. Breast, prostate, and endometrial glands on the other hand apparently secrete the antigen in conformity with the subject's secretor:non-secretor make-up. Thus the secretor:non-secretor status governs principally the antigens associated with mucous secretions and this in most but not all locations. The possible nature of this control is briefly discussed.

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1009-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
L M Brewer ◽  
J P Durkin ◽  
J P MacManus

Using the rat hepatoma calcium-binding protein, oncomodulin, from Morris hepatoma 5123tc, an antiserum has been raised in rabbits useful for immunostaining of this tumor protein. The peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) technique has been used to demonstrate oncomodulin in sections of Morris rat hepatomas 5123D, 5123tc, 7288Ctc, and 7777 fixed with Bouin's or Carnoy's fixatives, or using freeze substitution. Oncomodulin-specific staining was also shown by a hepatoma metastasis in lung. Optimal conditions for the indirect fluorescent antibody technique were established to demonstrate oncomodulin in virally transformed NRK cells (ASV-NRK). In both tumors and cultured neoplastic cells staining appeared which suggested that oncomodulin might occur in nucleus and cytoplasm. Normal untransformed tissues and uninfected cells did not show oncomodulin staining.


1965 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAROLD F. DVORAK ◽  
RICHARD B. COHEN

The Coons fluorescent antibody technique was employed to localize rabbit muscle phosphorylase within striated muscle cells. Pooled sera from guinea pigs sensitized against 2X crystallized rabbit phosphorylase a in complete Freund's adjuvant gave a single line of precipitation with the enzyme in Ouchterlony plates. Such sera, tagged with fluorescein isothiocyanate and applied to thin frozen sections of rabbit striated muscle, produced a specific, granular, fluorescing precipitate which was localized to the sarcoplasm between myofibrils. Preincubation with untagged specific antisera prevented specific staining. Appropriate control sera, similarly tagged, produced only slight nonspecific fluorescence. With properly absorbed specific antisera, staining was specific for striated muscle as opposed to rabbit liver or smooth muscle. The fluorescent antibody findings were correlated with those obtained by classical histochemieal studies of phosphorylase activity. In addition, application of antisera to sections of rabbit muscle before incubation in substrate resulted in significant inhibition of histochemically demonstrable phosphorylase activity whereas control sera had little or no inhibitory effect.


1961 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Möller

The fluorescent antibody technique has been applied for the demonstration of mouse isoantigens at the cellular level. Specific reactions were obtained by the indirect or "sandwich" technique with a variety of living normal and neoplastic cells. Isoantigens of the H-2 system and of other systems could be demonstrated as well and appeared to be localized at the cell membrane. As far as the H-2 system was concerned, the membrane localization could be confirmed on histological sections. Different types of non-specific staining reactions have been identified and described. Pinocytosis and cell injury led to such reactions that were morphologically distinguishable from the specific "ring" reaction and as far as pinocytosis is concerned, could be easily avoided by reducing the incubation time. In addition, a non-specific staining reaction morphologically indistinguishable from the specific "ring" reaction could be seen in a small proportion of bone marrow and lymph node cells but in no other cell type studied. The possible nature of this reaction is discussed.


2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 301-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Noda ◽  
H. Ikuta ◽  
Y. Ebie ◽  
A. Hirata ◽  
S. Tsuneda ◽  
...  

Fluorescent antibody technique by the monoclonal antibody method is very useful and helpful for the rapid quantification and in situ detection of the specific bacteria like nitrifiers in a mixed baxterial habitat such as a biofilm. In this study, twelve monoclonal antibodies against Nitrosomonas europaea (IFO14298) and sixteen against Nitrobacter winogradskyi (IFO14297) were raised from splenocytes of mice (BALB/c). It was found that these antibodies exhibited little cross reactivity against various kinds of heterotrophic bacteria. The direct cell count method using monoclonal antibodies could exactly detect and rapidly quantify N. europaea and N. winogradskyi. Moreover, the distribution of N. europaea and N. winogradskyi in a biofilm could be examined by in situ fluorescent antibody technique. It was shown that most of N. winogradskyi existed near the surface part and most of N. europaea existed at the inner part of the polyethylene glycol (PEG) gel pellet, which had entrapped activated sludge and used in a landfill leachate treatment reactor. It was suggested that this monoclonal antibody method was utilized for estimating and controlling the population of nitrifying bacteria as a quick and favorable tool.


Science ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 145 (3635) ◽  
pp. 943-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Brown ◽  
H. F. Maassab ◽  
J. A. Veronelli ◽  
T. J. Francis

1965 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. KEUTEL

Fluorescent labeled antibodies were used for the demonstration of uromucoid. This urine specific mucoprotein is demonstrably present only in the epithelial cells of the proximal segments of the normal human renal tubules and in the matrix of human kidney stones of all the common crystalline compositions.


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