ASSESSMENT OF MUSCULAR TISSUE SAMPLES IN NATURAL UNCHANGED FORM WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF VETERINARY-SANITARY MEAT EXAMINATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
D.A. Orlova ◽  
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T.V. Kalyuzhnaya ◽  
A.V. Drozd ◽  
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Author(s):  
N.S. Konoval

The issue on estimating the time of death coming still remains a challenge that requires a lot of questions to be answered, therefore, the development of new scientific methods aimed at overcoming these difficulties is a top priority in solving the problem of estimating the time of death coming. The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural and biochemical changes in the muscle tissue of the diaphragm in the early post-mortem period. The muscular tissue samples of the diaphragm just below the lungs taken from 30 human corpses in the early post-mortem period (in time intervals of 3-13 hours from the onset of death) were investigated. We studied structural and biochemical markers in the homogenates of the muscles of the diaphragm: the content of glycogen, acid phosphatase, lactate, lactate dehydrogenase, lipofuscin, and cholinesterase. It was found out that in the early post-mortem period structural and biochemical changes in the muscle tissue of the diaphragm are characterized by regular morphological biochemical and biophysical changes. In particular, the post-mortem dynamic changes in glycogen, acid phosphatase and lipofuscin levels is most significant; i.e. within the time interval of 3–9 hours from the time of death coming, the assessment of the “cholinesterase / glycogen or acidic phosphatase / glycogen” ratio is the most diagnostically valuable, then after 9 hours the only “cholinesterase / glycogen” ratio is meaningful. The content of glycogen in the homogenates of the diaphragm muscle tissue depending on the time of death coming ranged from (4.765 ± 0.058) mg / g in 3 hours, to (1.883 ± 0.027) mg / g in 13 hours after the death coming, reliably ( p <0.001) differing in time intervals. The inverse pattern was characterized by the acid phosphatase content: (2.748 ± 0.019) u / g in 3 hours and (4.49 ± 0.032) u / g in 13 hours. These markers are the most significant to demonstrate the patterns and can be used as critically important signs in forensic diagnosis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
О. Savinok ◽  
N. Azarova ◽  
О. Arsiriy ◽  
А. Nikolenko

The paper considers the kinetics of changes in the values of рН and temperature of beef of slaughtered Holstein bull calfs aged 15 months during cold storage. It has been established that the rate of pH decrease during autolytic maturation is greatly influenced by the rate of temperature decrease. This was observed in the two muscles taken as an example – m. Longissimus dorsi and m. Semimembranosus. A method is suggested of analysing digital images of beef muscular tissue samples in the color coordinate space to study the beef’s color characteristics during cold storage. It has been found out that using this method, with second order polynomial fitting, provides a mean-square approximation error of 5.6% on average from the minimum coordinate of the maximum level of the red component of color. This suggests the objectivity of its use to assess the color of the meat. An analytical dependence has been established between the beef color and the term of refrigeration with the use of information technologies. In accordance with it, it has been determined that due to biochemical processes, there takes place intense oxidation of myoglobin, which results in a dark color of the muscle tissue. In the course of time (up to 120 hours of storage), the red color intensity increases. This is accompanied with decomposition of myoglobin forms that have appeared, and with appearance of МbО2. When beef is stored for more than 140 hours, deeper iron oxidation begins, with formation of methyoglobin, and the brightness of the meat decreases. The developed method allows automating registration and processing of images of muscle tissue in real time, increases the productivity of the assessment, and gives an opportunity to obtain reliable objective results about the meat properties during its storage.


2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nebojsa Bojanic ◽  
Djordje Nale ◽  
Sava Micic ◽  
Natasa Lalic ◽  
Aleksandar Vuksanovic ◽  
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Introduction/Aim. Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are one of the main constituents of the connective tissue and cellular membrane. Their presence has been evidenced in mucosa and muscular tissue of the urinary bladder of both healthy individuals and those affected by carcinoma. This suggest their potential role in the onset of bladder carcinoma and follow-up of those patients. The aim of the study was to determine GAG levels in tumor tissue and the surrounding bladder mucosa in patients with bladder tumor, as well as in the bladder mucosa in patients with bladder carcinoma, and to compare the results according to the grade and stage of tumor and relapse. Methods. Tissue samples were taken in 61 patients (48 males and 13 females), mean age 61.5 years, range 40-92 years, obtained by transurethral resection (TUR) of bladder tumor, and 8 healthy persons. Determination of a total GAG content in the tissue samples was done by the Whiteman's method and then compared regarding the tumor grade and stage. Results. Tumor grade and stage directly correlated with the levels of GAG. The GAG levels were significantly higher in tumor samples as compared to healthy mucosa. Conclusion. Higher GAG levels were recorded in all the patients with bladder tumors comparing to smples obtained from healthy individuals. GAG levels do not predict tumor relapse.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Oleg Nikolayevich Andreyanov

In this paper the author considers the possibility of using an automated method of diagnostics of the causative agent of trichinosis Trichinella spp. at wild trade animals. In the course of trichinosis monitoring in the Central region of Russia naturally infested carcasses of animals were selected. The infected animals were stored at a low (-5C) temperature in the climatic camera before carrying out researches. With the help of AVT devices diagnostic tests on trichinosis of different types of trade animals muscular tissue samples (diaphragm, masseter, extremities muscles, tongue) were conducted. During the research refrigerated and later cooled muscles samples were used. Samples weighing 500,5 g. were used for the research. To get qualitative mincemeat fat and connective tissue were removed from muscular tissue. Pepsin produced by Shako (Rostov region) was used for an artificial peptoliz. Diagnostic samples of boars, foxes, martens increased the weighing mass to 40 minutes, of wolves to 50 minutes and of raccoon dogs to 60 minutes. Further tissue was fermented and weighing mass of the researched samples was decreased. The optimal period of time was found for trichinellascopy test of wild animals muscular tissue by the automated method on AVT devices.


Author(s):  
Jerrold L. Abraham

Inorganic particulate material of diverse types is present in the ambient and occupational environment, and exposure to such materials is a well recognized cause of some lung disease. To investigate the interaction of inhaled inorganic particulates with the lung it is necessary to obtain quantitative information on the particulate burden of lung tissue in a wide variety of situations. The vast majority of diagnostic and experimental tissue samples (biopsies and autopsies) are fixed with formaldehyde solutions, dehydrated with organic solvents and embedded in paraffin wax. Over the past 16 years, I have attempted to obtain maximal analytical use of such tissue with minimal preparative steps. Unique diagnostic and research data result from both qualitative and quantitative analyses of sections. Most of the data has been related to inhaled inorganic particulates in lungs, but the basic methods are applicable to any tissues. The preparations are primarily designed for SEM use, but they are stable for storage and transport to other laboratories and several other instruments (e.g., for SIMS techniques).


Author(s):  
MB. Tank Buschmann

Development of oligodendrocytes in rat corpus callosum was described as a sequential change in cytoplasmic density which progressed from light to medium to dark (1). In rat optic nerve, changes in cytoplasmic density were not observed, but significant changes in morphology occurred just prior to and during myelination (2). In our study, the ultrastructural development of oligodendrocytes was studied in newborn, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-day and adult frontal cortex of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus).Young and adult hamster brains were perfused with paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde in sodium cacodylate buffer at pH 7.3 according to the method of Peters (3). Tissue samples of layer V of the frontal cortex were post-fixed in 2% osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in acetone and embedded in Epon-Araldite resin.


Author(s):  
J.N. Turner ◽  
M. Siemens ◽  
D. Szarowski ◽  
D.N. Collins

A classic preparation of central nervous system tissue (CNS) is the Golgi procedure popularized by Cajal. The method is partially specific as only a few cells are impregnated with silver chromate usualy after osmium post fixation. Samples are observable by light (LM) or electron microscopy (EM). However, the impregnation is often so dense that structures are masked in EM, and the osmium background may be undesirable in LM. Gold toning is used for a subtle but high contrast EM preparation, and osmium can be omitted for LM. We are investigating these preparations as part of a study to develop correlative LM and EM (particularly HVEM) methodologies in neurobiology. Confocal light microscopy is particularly useful as the impregnated cells have extensive three-dimensional structure in tissue samples from one to several hundred micrometers thick. Boyde has observed similar preparations in the tandem scanning reflected light microscope (TSRLM).


Author(s):  
P.W. Coates ◽  
E.A. Ashby ◽  
L. Krulich ◽  
A. Dhariwal ◽  
S. McCann

The morphologic effects on somatotrophs of crude sheep hypothalamic extract prepared from stalk-median eminence were studied by electron microscopy in conjunction with concurrently run bioassays performed on the same tissue samples taken from young adult male Sherman rats.Groups were divided into uninjected controls and injected experimentals sacrificed at 5', 15', and 30' after injection. Half of each anterior pituitary was prepared for electron microscopic investigation, the other half for bioassay. Fixation using collidine buffered osmium tetroxide was followed by dehydration and embedment in Maraglas. Uranyl acetate and lead citrate were used as stains. Thin sections were examined in a Philips EM 200.Somatotrophs from uninjected controls appeared as described in the literature (Fig. 1). In addition to other components, these cells contained moderate numbers of spherical, electron-dense, membrane-bound granules approximately 350 millicrons in diameter.


Author(s):  
T. L. Benning ◽  
P. Ingram ◽  
J. D. Shelburne

Two benzofuran derivatives, chlorpromazine and amiodarone, are known to produce inclusion bodies in human tissues. Prolonged high dose chlorpromazine therapy causes hyperpigmentation of the skin with electron-dense inclusion bodies present in dermal histiocytes and endothelial cells ultrastructurally. The nature of the deposits is not known although a drug-melanin complex has been hypothesized. Amiodarone may also cause cutaneous hyperpigmentation and lamellar lysosomal inclusion bodies have been demonstrated within the cells of multiple organ systems. These lamellar bodies are believed to be the product of an amiodarone-induced phospholipid storage disorder. We performed transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis (EDXA) on tissue samples from patients treated with these drugs, attempting to detect the sulfur atom of chlorpromazine and the iodine atom of amiodarone within their respective inclusion bodies.A skin biopsy from a patient with hyperpigmentation due to prolonged chlorpromazine therapy was fixed in 4% glutaraldehyde and processed without osmium tetroxide or en bloc uranyl acetate for Epon embedding.


Author(s):  
W. E. Rigsby ◽  
D. M. Hinton ◽  
V. J. Hurst ◽  
P. C. McCaskey

Crystalline intracellular inclusions are rarely seen in mammalian tissues and are often difficult to positively identify. Lymph node and liver tissue samples were obtained from two cows which had been rejected at the slaughter house due to the abnormal appearance of these organs in the animals. The samples were fixed in formaldehyde and some of the fixed material was embedded in paraffin. Examination of the paraffin sections with polarized light microscopy revealed the presence of numerous crystals in both hepatic and lymph tissue sections. Tissue sections were then deparaffinized in xylene, mounted, carbon coated, and examined in a Phillips 505T SEM equipped with a Tracor Northern X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) system. Crystals were obscured by cellular components and membranes so that EDS spectra were only obtainable from whole cells. Tissue samples which had been fixed but not paraffin-embedded were dehydrated, embedded in Spurrs plastic, and sectioned.


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