scholarly journals Combined beta-galactosidase and immunogold/silver staining for immunohistochemistry and DNA in situ hybridization.

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
W van den Brink ◽  
C van der Loos ◽  
H Volkers ◽  
R Lauwen ◽  
F van den Berg ◽  
...  

A combination of beta-galactosidase enzyme and the immunogold/silver staining method was studied for evaluation of double-staining experiments. Applications are shown for immunohistochemical double staining using two monoclonal antibodies and for combined immunohistochemistry and DNA in situ hybridization in one tissue section. The following advantages for the present double-staining method were evaluated: superior sensitivity of the immunogold/silver staining method for at least one epitope, which also allows detection of biotinylated DNA probes. The structure of the indolyl precipitate after revelation of beta-galactosidase activity did not show a concealing effect during a sequential double-staining method, as compared with the visualization of peroxidase with diaminobenzidine. These factors, and the sharply contrasting colored reaction products of beta-galactosidase (blue-green) and the immunogold/silver staining method including silver enhancement (brown-black), allow clear distinction of mixed-stained cell constituents.

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsunari Nishikawa ◽  
Shoichi Arai ◽  
Kenichi Uobe ◽  
Masahiro Wato ◽  
Kazuya Tominaga ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Seiji Kato

Previously, the author repeatedly confirmed the higher 5’-nucleotidase (5’-Nase) and lower alkaline phoaphatase (ALPase) activities in the wall of lymphatic capillaries reacted with the lead-based method relative to those of blood capillaries. The ALPase, on the other hand, is markedly higher in blood capillaries than in lymphatics. On the basis of these enzyme characteristics, the author has developed a 5’-Nase— ALPase double staining method to differentiate small lymphatics from blood capillaries at the level of the light microcsopy. Furthermore, we applied it to histochemical observation of the lead-containing reaction products of 5’-Nase in lymphatics on the same or adjacent cryostat sections using backscattered electron imaging (BEI) in scanning electron microscope (SEM). This paper presents a new applicability of 5’-Nase histochemistry by BEI-SEM to demonstrate the distribution of lymphatic capillaries in tissue blocks.


1998 ◽  
Vol 111 (10) ◽  
pp. 1433-1439
Author(s):  
F. Zurita ◽  
R. Jimenez ◽  
M. Burgos ◽  
R.D. de la Guardia

We have developed a procedure for sequential silver staining and in situ hybridization to analyze the relationship between the amount of rDNA present in nucleolar organizer regions, as estimated by in situ hybridization, and their level of expression, as estimated by the silver signal. For simplicity we used cells from the insectivorous mole Talpa occidentalis, which have a single pair of nucleolar organizer regions in chromosome pair 3. The relative content of ribosomal cistrons was also related to the hierarchy of activation of the nucleolar organizer regions present in this chromosomal pair. Statistical analyses demonstrated that both the relative level of expression and the activation hierarchy depended mainly on the number of ribosomal cistrons in nucleolar organizer regions. We propose a functional two-step hypothesis, which is consistent with most known data concerning interchromosomal, intercellular and interindividual variation in a number of plant and animal species, including Talpa occidentalis. In step one, the first available transcription factors bind randomly to the ribosomal promoters, such that larger nucleolar organizer regions are more likely to recruit them. In the second step the remaining transcription factors are recruited in a cooperative way, thus completing activation of one nucleolar organizer region, before the next one becomes active.


Development ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jermyn ◽  
D. Traynor ◽  
J. Williams

We have analysed expression of the ecmA and ecmB genes of Dictyostelium by enzymatic double staining using beta-galactosidase and beta-glucuronidase reporter gene constructs. Cells expressing the ecmA gene first appear as scattered cells at the mound stage of development and we show that this is also true for cells expressing the ecmB gene. During tip formation the ecmA-expressing cells move to the apex of the mound, while the ecmB-expressing cells accumulate in the base. The ecmB-expressing cells constitute part of the basal disc if the culminant is formed in situ but are discarded if a migratory slug is formed. During slug migration they are replaced by a band of ecmB-expressing cells, situated in the front half of the prespore zone and tightly apposed to the substratum. When culmination is triggered these cells rapidly move to the back half of the prestalk zone, possibly acting as a point of attachment to the substratum. Ultimately, they are joined by cells at the back of the slug, the rearguard cells, to form the basal disc. Thus, contrary to previous belief, basal disc formation is initiated very early during culmination and occurs by the forward movement of cells located in the anterior of the prespore zone.


2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Cabibi ◽  
A.G. Giannone ◽  
C. Mascarella ◽  
C. Guarnotta ◽  
M. Castiglia ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Fernandez-Piqueras ◽  
Carlos Sentis Castaño ◽  
E. Rojo Garcia ◽  
A. Rodriguez Campos

Genome ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1032-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ib Linde-Laursen ◽  
Elly Ibsen ◽  
Roland Von Bothmer ◽  
Henriette Giese

Two populations of the diploid and 10 populations of the tetraploid cytotype of Hordeum marinum ssp. gussoneanum were studied for the presence of chromosomal segments harbouring rDNA. Conventional cytological methods established the presence of only one satellited (SAT) chromosome pair in both cytotypes. This was supported by silver staining revealing two NORs and two standard-sized nucleoli. Two additional micronucleoli were observed in a few interphases of two tetraploid populations indicating the presence of an extra chromosome pair with very low nucleolus-forming activity. In situ hybridization with the wheat rDNA probe pTA71 identified intense signals at the nucleolar constrictions of the SAT chromosomes of both cytotypes and weaker signals in a chromosome pair of the tetraploid cytotype, morphologically similar to the SAT chromosomes but without visible nucleolar constrictions. This confirms the presence of rDNA in two chromosome pairs in the tetraploid cytotype. The morphological similarity between these two pairs and the SAT-chromosome pair of the diploid cytotype as well as an identical position of the signals in all three pairs give additional support to an autoploid origin of the tetraploid cytotype. The rDNA at the nucleolar constrictions consisted of two segments of condensed rDNA of different sizes connected by diffuse rDNA. The rDNA of the chromosome pair without nucleolar constrictions was condensed supporting that this conformation is connected with inactivity. The tripartite structure of the rDNA at the nucleolar constrictions corresponds to similar tripartite structures observed after silver staining and Giemsa C-banding.Key words: in situ hybridization, rDNA location, Hordeum marinum, autoploidy, inactive NORs.


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