石蜡包埋植物材料在去除石蜡之前的番红──快绿染色法

石蜡包埋植物材料在去除石蜡之前的番红──快绿染色法染色步骤：ＦＡＡ固定液固定植物材料,乙醇一正丁醇系列脱水,植物材料呈透明体状态被包埋,切片厚度１０微米。用蛋白或明胶粘片剂粘贴蜡带,切片放在４０～４５℃烫板上烘干。不脱蜡直接进行染色,过程如下：（１）...     

整块染色法在生物切片制作中的应用

整块染色法在生物切片制作中的应用为了制作大量教学切片，我们用块染法略加改进将羊和兔的肝、脾、胃肠、软骨等２０余种不同器官组织块固定于Ａ、Ｄ、Ｎ固定液（无水酒精、蒸馏水和硝酸）中固定２４ｈ、经７０％和５０％酒精以及蒸馏水洗涤，染于０．１％碘酸钠—一苏木...     

大鼠胰腺嗜铬颗粒素A分布的免疫组织化学研究

本研究用ＡＢＣ免疫组织化学方法,在Ｂｏｕｉｎ液固定的常规石蜡切片上,观察了啥铬颗粒素Ａ在大鼠胰腺内分泌细胞内的定位和分布,并用相邻切片双标记法,观察了它与胰高血糖素、胰岛素、生长抑素的共存关系。结果发现,大鼠胰腺嗜铬颗粒素Ａ样免疫反应细胞主要分布于胰岛的周边部,胰腺外分泌部的导管和腺泡等处均未见ＣｇＡ祥物质存在。用相邻薄切片免疫显色技术证明,大鼠胰腺中ＣｇＡ样物质与胰高血糖素共存。结果提示,ＣｇＡ可能是胰腺内分泌细胞的一个新的标志物,在胰腺功能调节上发挥着重要作用。     

冰冻切片染色方法的改进

冰冻切片染色方法的改进熊正文,胡海霞,苏红,商磊岩（张家口解放军二五一医院病理科,０７５０００）冰冻切片是肿瘤病理快速诊断不可缺少的手段,目前,常用的固定染色方法存在着对组织结构、核染色质颗粒不清晰等缺点,针对上述缺点,经参考有关文献,对ＡＡＦ液进行...     

间接免疫过氧化物酶技术鉴定猪和牛的肥大细胞

用小鼠抗人肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶单克隆抗体ＡＡ１,ＡＡ３及ＡＡ５的间接免疫过氧化物酶技术对经Ｃａｒｎｏｙ液或中性缓冲福尔马林固定的猪和犊牛空肠,舌及胸腺的石蜡切片进行了免疫染色。对猪和牛的肥大细胞特异性免疫染色与常规的组织化学染色的结果进行了比较。     

实验性脾虚证大鼠肝细胞ATP酶的组织化学研究

用Ｗｉｓｔａｒ雄性成年大鼠２８只,分为对照组、脾虚组、自然恢复组和中药治疗组,每组７只。每组各取５只,麻醉处死后取肝右叶小块组织,恒冷箱切片,按Ｗａｃｈｓｔｅｉｎ－Ｍｅｉｓｅｌ法显示Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ,光镜观察。每组另２只经心脏灌注多聚甲醛混合固定液固定,取肝右叶小块组织,制振动切片,采用Ｒｏｂｉｎｓｏｎ和Ｋｏｒｎｏｖｓｋｙ法显示Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ,以常规电镜法包埋和切片,透射电镜观察。本文见到,光镜下Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ位于胆小管,电镜下存在于胆小管微绒毛质膜上。脾虚组Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ活性低于对照组;“自然恢复组”Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ活性介于对照组与脾虚组之间。中药治疗组酶活性与对照组相近。本文对脾虚证肝细胞Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰａｓｅ变化的意义进行了讨论。     

振荡法在组织石蜡制片中的应用

本文成功地把振荡法应用于组织石蜡制片中,采取鸡的各种组织,用常规、加温、振荡三种方法进行固定、脱水、透明和浸蜡,然后常规切片染色试验比较。结果表明,用振荡法从固定到浸蜡仪用2小时20分钟,提高功效10倍以上。具有传统方法所不及的简便、快速、切片薄及质量好等优点,尤其适用于临床病理检验的快速诊断。完全可以代替一般的快速石蜡切片和冰冻切片。     

直接逆转录原位PCR检测实验性汉坦病毒感染乳鼠脑组织中病毒RNA及其与原位分子杂交的比较

出生后２～３ｄ的昆明种乳鼠,经腹腔接种１００个半数致死量的陈株汉坦病毒,每只０．０５ｍｌ,于接种后１、２、４、６、８、１０、１２、１４ｄ处死动物,每个时间点３～６只不等,取其脑组织固定于４％的多聚甲醛中,石蜡包埋制备５μｍ的连续组织切片,每时间点取１～２例组织切片,用逆转录原位ＰＣＲ（ＲＴ－ＩＳＰＣＲ）方法检测组织中病毒Ｓ片段ＲＮＡ,组织脱蜡后,经ＤＮａｓｅ、蛋白酶Ｋ、消化等予处理,用汉坦病毒ＲＮＡＳ片段特异的一对引物,在组织切片上进行病毒ＲＮＡ的逆转录和ＰＣＲ过程,直接将ｄｉｇｏｘｉｇｅｎｉｎ－１１－ｄＵＴＰ掺入到扩增产物中,经过３０个ＰＣＲ循环后,用碱性磷酸酶标记的抗ｄｉｇｏｘｉｇｅｎｉｎ抗体免疫组化检测扩增产物,连续组织切片用ｄｉｇｏｘｉｇｅｎｉｎ标记的汉坦病毒Ｍ片段Ｇ２编码区ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ扩增产物的和Ｓ片段特异性探针进行原位分子杂交并与ＲＴ－ＩＳＰＣＲ结果进行比较,另外应用免疫组化检测该基因表达产物病毒核抗原（ＮＰ）,结果,ＲＴ－ＩＳＰＣＲ在病毒感染１ｄ的乳鼠脑组织中检测到病毒ＲＮＡ扩增产物,扩增产物定位于神经细胞胞浆内,而原位分子杂交和免疫组化检测阴性。在病毒感染２ｄ及２ｄ以后的乳鼠脑组织中ＲＴ－Ｉ     

激光微切割与定量PCR技术分析肾脏病理切片RNA

采用激光微切割与定量PCR技术,分析使用不同提取方法从不同固定方法固定的病理切片中提取的RNA.用70%乙醇、丙酮、甲醇、4%多聚甲醛固定肾脏冰冻切片,使用激光微切割技术切取肾小球,用硫氰酸胍方法(guanidinethiocyanatemethods,GTC)和Trizol试剂方法提取RNA,使用Taqman定量PCR方法分析比较各组RNA的量;选取丙酮固定的石蜡切片,使用激光微切割技术切取肾小球,采用RNA裂解液提取RNA,使用Taqman定量PCR方法,比较石蜡切片和冰冻切片中RNA含量.结果显示:提取沉淀性固定剂如乙醇、丙酮、甲醇固定的冰冻切片的RNA时,2种提取方法和3种固定方法对RNA含量的影响都无明显差异;但在提取4%多聚甲醛固定冰冻切片时,使用Trizol提取RNA含量明显高于使用GTC方法,且其含量与沉淀性固定剂固定的切片RNA含量无明显差异.石蜡切片中经激光微切割肾小球的RNA含量与冰冻切片经激光微切割肾小球的RNA含量无明显差异.结果提示:切片的固定方法和RNA的提取方法是影响切片RNA提取量的主要原因.     

观察梯形穿孔板的好材料——桦木导管分子

取二、三年生新鲜桦木枝条用FAA固定液固定保存。实验时用徒手切片或滑走切片机切片,经番红·固绿染色;如用离析材料观察效果     

Selective staining of fungal hyphae in parasitic and symbiotic plant-fungus associations

A cytochemical method for light microscopical studies is described which allows the specific detection of fungal hyphae in plant-fungus associations: e.g. lichens, mycorrhiza, or fungal infections of plant tissue. The specimens were fixed and embedded in epoxy resin by a standard protocol for electron microscopy. Semithin sections were successively incubated with fluorescein isothiocyanate labelled wheat germ agglutinin (FITC-WGA) and calcofluor white (CW). FITC-WGA stained exclusively the fungal cell walls while CW stained both the fungal and the plant cell walls. Therefore, FITC-WGA is an excellent marker for the fungal hyphae.     

New Uses for Calcium Chloride Solution as a Mounting Medium

Fresh cross sections of stems [Psilotum nudum, Coleus blumei, and Pelargonium peltatum] and roots (Setcreasea purpurea) 120 μm thick were fixed in FPA₅₀ (formalin: propionic acid: 50% ethanol, 5:5:90, v/v) for 24 hr and stored in 70% ethanol. The sections were transferred to water and then to 1% phloroglucin in 20% calcium chloride solution plus either hydrochloric, nitric, or lactic acid in the following ratios of phloroglucin-CaCl₂ solution:acid: 25:4, 20:2, or 15:5. The sections were mounted on slides either in one of the three mixtures or in fresh 20% calcium chloride solution. A rapid reaction of the acid-phloroglucin with lignin produced a deep red color in tracheary elements and an orange-red color in sclerenchyma. Fixed and stored leaf pieces from Nymphaea odorata were autoclaved in lactic acid, washed in two changes of 95% ethanol, transferred to water, and treated with the three acid-phloroglucin-calcium chloride mixtures. The abundant astrosclereids stained an orange-red color similar to that of sclerenchyma in the sections. In addition, a new method is reported for specifically staining lignified tissues. When sections or leaf pieces are stained in aqueous 0.05% toluidine blue O, then placed in 20% calcium chloride solution, all tissues destain except those with lignified or partially lignified cell walls. Thus, toluidine blue O applied as described becomes a reliable specific test for lignin comparable to the acid-phloroglucin test.     

A new technique for studying the stylet tracks of homopteran insects in hand-sectioned plant tissue using light or epifluorescence microscopy

Homopteran insects, such as aphids, psyllids and scales, inject a proteinaceous salivary sheath into their host plant tissue during feeding. This sheath, also referred to as a stylet track, remains in the tissue after the stylets are withdrawn, and is useful for studying plant resistance to insects and plant virus transmission. We describe a new method for studying stylet tracks. Hand microtome sectioned plant material was fixed and cleared in ethanol. The stylet tracks were stained with acid fuchsin and counterstained with aniline blue or fast green. The acid fuchsin stained stylet tracks were pink to red under light microscopy, and orange under TRITC epifluorescence. Stylet tracks in unstained sections autofluoresced under DAPI epifluorescence. This new technique is significantly faster and less complex than previous techniques, and permitted visualization of stylet tracks with light or epifluorescence microscopy within 1 hr of collecting fresh plant material. The technique was also applicable to a broad range of homopterans and plant taxa and provided excellent photomicrographs.     

A new technique for studying the stylet tracks of homopteran insects in hand-sectioned plant tissue using light or epifluorescence microscopy

Homopteran insects, such as aphids, psyllids and scales, inject a proteinaceous salivary sheath into their host plant tissue during feeding. This sheath, also referred to as a stylet track, remains in the tissue after the stylets are withdrawn, and is useful for studying plant resistance to insects and plant virus transmission. We describe a new method for studying stylet tracks. Hand microtome sectioned plant material was fixed and cleared in ethanol. The stylet tracks were stained with acid fuchsin and counterstained with aniline blue or fast green. The acid fuchsin stained stylet tracks were pink to red under light microscopy, and orange under TRITC epifluorescence. Stylet tracks in unstained sections autofluoresced under DAPI epifluorescence. This new technique is significantly faster and less complex than previous techniques, and permitted visualization of stylet tracks with light or epifluorescence microscopy within 1 hr of collecting fresh plant material. The technique was also applicable to a broad range of homopterans and plant taxa and provided excellent photomicrographs.     

A Rapid Safranin-Metal Phthalocyanine Double Staining Technique for Plants

Pure metal 4.4',4',4'-tetxa-substituted, sulfo-, carboxy- and nitrophthalocyanines were synthesized. Mounted, deparaffinized and partially dehydrated sections of plant tissues were stained with 0.5% safranin in 50% alcohol for 5-10 min. Excess safranin was removed with a series of 70%, 95% and absolute alcohol washes. The sections were then stained for 2-3 min using metal 4,4',4',4'-phthalocyanine tetracarboxylic acid (MPTC, 0.5% (V/V) containing a few drops of dilute sodium hydroxide), metal 4,4',4',4'-tetra-sulfophthalocyanine (MPTS, 0.5% (V/V)) or metal tetranitrophthalocyanine (MPTN, 0.5% (V/V) in dimethyl sulfoxide). The sections were washed with 95%, then absolute alcohol; however, the metal tetranitrophthalocyanine section was washed only with absolute alcohol. Stained sections were treated briefly with xylene, then mounted on a coverslip. Bright peacock blue (MPTC and MPTS using Cu, Co or Ni), turquoise blue (MPTN using Cu or Ni) or parrot green (zinc phthalocyanine tetracarboxylic acid-ZnPTC, zinc phthalocyanine tetranitro derivative-ZnPTN) colors were obtained. Lignin-containing cells were stained red by safranin and the remaining cell structures were stained by the metal phthalocyanine complex with color brightness superior to that of fast green. Uniform staining, no color fading after a year, reliability, brief staining times, high color contrast (log ε = 4.0-4.9) and ease of use make this double staining combination ideal for routine use and photomicrography.     

A polychromatic staining method for epoxy embedded tissue: a new combination of methylene blue and basic fuchsine for light microscopy

A simple and rapid method is described for staining semithin sections of material embedded in epoxy resin for observing tissues prior to transmission electron microscopy. The method is suitable for tissue fixed with a glutaraldehyde-formaldehyde mixture and postfixed in osmium tetroxide. No etching or oxidizing procedures are necessary. Sections 0.5-0.8 µm thick are dried onto a slide and stained with either 0.75% methylene blue and 0.25% azure B or 0.5% methylene blue and 0.5% azure II in 0.5% aqueous borax and heated over a flame for 8-10 sec. The slides are rinsed with water, then stained the same way with 0.1% basic fuchsine in 5% aqueous ethanol. Cytoplasm stains blue; nuclei darker blue; collagen, mucus and elastin pink to red; fat and intracellular lipid droplets gray-green.     

STUDIES ON NUCLEIC ACID METACHROMASY : II. Metachromatic and Orthochromatic Staining by Toluidine Blue of Nucleic Acids in Tissue Sections

Acrolein-fixed, polyester wax-embedded tissue sections showed excellent preservation of light microscopic architecture and, when stained with toluidine blue, intense color contrast between DNA, which stained orthochromatically, and RNA, which stained metachromatically. This method has practical value for differentiating DNA from RNA in the same section. The color contrast was impaired by substituting formaldehyde for acrolein or paraffin for polyester wax, and was negligible in tissues fixed in formaldehyde or Carnoy's fluid and embedded in paraffin. Quality of structural preservation paralleled degree of color contrast. Metachromatic staining can be analysed, by the quantitative parameters of Bradley and colleagues, to provide inferences regarding the conformation of biopolymers in tissue sections. Comparison of the nucleic acid color contrasts in toluidine blue-stained sections with titrations of fixative-treated nucleic acids against toluidine blue in solution indicated a greater difference in conformation between DNA- and RNA-protein in acrolein-polyester sections than between acrolein-treated free DNA and RNA in solution. This is supported by recent evidence that the conformation of ribosomal RNA is quite different in whole ribosomes from that assumed by the same RNA free in solution. The acrolein-polyester method may enhance color contrast by providing superior preservation of ordered nucleoprotein conformations.     

Differential staining of tannin in sections of epoxy-embedded plant cells.

A staining procedure is described for the light microscopic localization of ergastic tannins in epoxy sections of plant cells embedded for study by transmission electron microscopy. Callus and cell suspensions of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus taeda fixed in glutaraldehyde:acrolein and then OsO4, followed by epoxy embedding, were sectioned 0.5 mum thick, stained on a glass slide with ethanolic Sudan black B at 60 C as described by Bronner, and then mounted in Karo syrup. Tannin deposits stained brownish-orange and were easily distinguished from lipid bodies of similar size, which stained dark blue to black, and from starch grains, which were unstained. The significance of this differential polychromasia was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. This staining procedure should prove valuable in the cytoplasmic evaluation of the plant cell ergastics (especially tannins) via light microscopy whether or not electroc microscopic examination is intended.     

Epoxy-slide embedment of cytochemically stained tissues and cultured cells for light and electron microscopy

A new method is described for embedding stained tissue sections, cells, cultured cells or organ cultures in a special polyethylene mold to form epoxy microscope slides (cast-a-slides). Cast-a-slides in which biological specimens are embedded may be examined by light microscopy and individual optimally stained cells or tissue areas selected for examination by various modes of electron microscopy or X-ray microanalysis. Cultured cells or organs can be grown, fixed, stained and embedded in epoxy in the same cast-a-slide mold. The cast-a-slides can be stored conveniently in the same manner as glass microscopy slides.     

Demonstration of lipofuscin and Nissl bodies in crystal violet stained sections using a fluorescence technique or pyronin Y stain

This paper presents two simple, reliable methods for identification of lipofuscin and Nissl bodies in the same section. One method shows that lipofuscin stained with crystal violet retains its ability to fluoresce and can be observed under the fluorescence microscope after the stain has faded. Fading is accompanied by a gradual increase in the intensity of the fluorescence and is complete in about 5 min. Exciting illumination from this part of the spectrum also substantially fades staining of other autofluorescing tissue elements, such as lipids. Nonfluorescing structures, such as Nissl bodies, remain stained. By changing from transillumination with tungsten light to epifluorescent illumination and vice versa, both types of structures--Nissl bodies and lipofuscin--can be identified in the same section. The second technique uses pyronin Y for staining Nissl bodies in preparations previously stained with crystal violet. Nissl bodies are stained pink but lipofuscin remains violet. Lipofuscin in these sections also remains autofluorescent after the crystal violet stain has faded under violet or near-UV light.