显示弹性,胶原纤维的双重组合染色法

在特殊染色中,分别显示胶原纤维和弹性纤维的方法较多,但是这二种染色效果较差,多年来为了使动物和人体组织中能同时可靠的显示胶原和弹性纤维成分,并在较长时间内不褪色。为此我们进行了反复的实验性研究,在选用多种染料中,发现酸性染料 Ponceau S(丽春红 S),碱性染料Victoria blue(维多利亚蓝)等试剂,经过重新组合后,能更好的显示胶原纤维呈红色,弹性纤维呈蓝绿色,肌肉等呈黄色,染色色彩鲜艳,对比清晰。其方法简单,容易掌握,这是一种较为理想的双重组合染色方法。     

SR-G-AB显示胶原、网状纤维和粘液的复合染色法

在组织细胞的染色中,为了证明双重纤维和粘液物质,通过分别选用和组合的天狼星红(Sirius)苦味酸、Comori和阿尔辛蓝(Alcian blue)醋酸染色试剂,已能够显示鼠肺组织中胶原纤维呈红色,网状纤维呈黑色,粘液物质呈绿蓝色,背景呈黄色。对比清晰,色彩鲜艳,是较为理想的复合染色方法。     

跖肌肌球蛋白腺苷三磷酸酶与琥珀酸脱氢酶染色的相关性探讨

研究大鼠、家兔和人跖肌的肌纤维型构成比例与分布。应用肌球蛋白腺苷三磷酸酶(ATP酶)和琥珀酸脱氢酶(SDH酶)染色法,观察比较各型肌纤维的组织化学特性。结果表明：肌球蛋白ATP酶染色,大鼠、家兔和人跖肌的肌纤维可分成I型、ⅡA型、ⅡB型肌纤维,横切面呈多边形或椭圆形,分别约占25％、35％和40％;琥珀酸脱氢酶染色,肌纤维呈蔚蓝色,以镶嵌交叉排列,可分为中染S0、深染FOG和浅染FG三型,分别约占25％、30％和45％,种系间无显著性差异。ATP酶活性反应肌纤维收缩的生理特性,而SDH活性反应肌纤维的代谢特征,两种分型的方法有所差异。     

弹性纤维染色在评估肺癌胸膜侵犯中的应用价值

目的利用维多利亚蓝染色法(EVG)对肺癌组织中弹性纤维进行定位,判断肿瘤和胸膜的关系,根据肿瘤旁弹性纤维性状,确定胸膜被侵犯程度,对肿瘤进行分期。方法选用术后病理证实为肺癌,HE染色后不能明确是否侵犯胸膜的病例,进行弹性纤维染色。结果经弹性纤维染色后,可更清晰显示出弹性纤维的分布性状以及与胸膜的关系,特别是肿块紧靠胸膜的病例,区分HE染色难以判断的病例,能准确判断肿瘤是否达到胸膜或侵犯胸膜程度。结论与HE染色相比,弹性纤维染色可清晰显示弹性纤维的分布状况,更直观判断出肿瘤与胸膜关系,定位定性更准确,有助于评估肿瘤侵袭程度及患者的临床预后。     

主动脉夹层血管壁中氧化应激蛋白NOX1 表达及意义

目的:探讨主动脉夹层(aortic dissection,AD)血管组织中氧化应激蛋白NOX1的表达及意义。方法:收集2014年~2015年在武汉大学人民医院AD患者升主动脉血管组织标本(AD组)及多器官捐献患者升主动脉血管组织标本(对照组)各12例。采用维多利亚蓝染色观察主动脉中膜弹性纤维形态结构;应用SP免疫组织化学法及Western blot法对标本组织中的NOX1进行检测分析。结果:AD组主动脉中膜弹性纤维形态和排列不规则、破碎、丢失,结构紊乱。免疫组织化学显示NOX1阳性表达见于主动脉壁平滑肌细胞胞质中,AD组与对照组比较,NOX1表达明显升高。Western blot蛋白印迹示AD组NOX1表达明显增高,差异有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:NOX1在AD主动脉中膜中表达上调,可能在AD的发生中发挥作用。     

Fibulin-5在主动脉夹层血管壁中表达异常

目的:研究Stanford A型主动脉夹层(aortic dissection,AD)升主动脉和正常升主动脉血管组织中Fibulin-5表达的差异。方法:收集Stanford A型AD患者手术中切除的升主动脉血管组织标本12例(AD组),多器官捐献患者升主动脉血管12例(对照组)。采用EVG染色观察主动脉中膜弹性纤维形态结构;应用SP免疫组织化学法及Western blot法对标本组织中的Fibulin-5进行检测分析。结果:AD组主动脉中膜弹性纤维形态和排列不规则、破碎、丢失,结构紊乱。免疫组织化学显示Fibulin-5阳性表达见于主动脉壁平滑肌细胞胞质中,AD组与对照组比较,Fibulin-5表达明显较少。Western blot蛋白印迹示AD组Fibulin-5表达明显减少,差异有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:Fibulin-5在AD主动脉中膜中表达下调,可能在AD的发生中发挥作用。     

冻融联合灌注法优化大鼠肾脏脱细胞支架的制备

本研究旨在探索优化肾脏脱细胞支架的制备方法,为肾脏组织工程及肾脏体外病理、毒理研究提供实验基础。取大鼠肾脏灌注PBS作为对照组 (Control组),在不同流速下分别以十二烷基磺酸钠 (Sodium dodecyl sulfate,SDS) 灌注 (S组),Triton X-100联合SDS灌注 (TS组),反复冻融后Triton X-100联合SDS灌注(FTS组),制备肾脏脱细胞支架,并测定其流体分布及脉管阻力。HE染色、DAPI染色、DNA定量检测脱细胞支架脱细胞程度,Masson染色、PAS染色、免疫组织化学染色检测脱细胞支架主要成分的保留和结构的完整,扫描电镜检测支架的超微结构,MTT法检测支架的细胞毒性,ELISA检测支架中生长因子的含量。结果显示,FTS组脱细胞用时较S组、TS组少,10 mL/min组支架脉管阻力较低,S组、TS组、FTS组流体分布与Control组存在差异。HE染色和DAPI染色显示各组支架未见细胞成分残留,DNA含量＜50 ng/mg。Masson染色和PAS染色可见细胞外网状胶原及多糖,免疫组织化学染色见Ⅰ型胶原 (CollagenⅠ)、Ⅳ型胶原蛋白 (Collagen Ⅳ)、纤维连接蛋白 (Fibronectin)、层粘连蛋白 (Laminin) 表达。扫描电镜见支架呈蜂窝状结构。MTT法检测支架细胞毒性分级在0–1级之间。ELISA检测提示FTS组VEGF、EGF、IGF-1、PDGF含量明显高于S组和TS组。综上,联合冻融和灌注法能够制备更为理想且有效的大鼠肾脏整器官脱细胞支架,为肾脏组织工程及肾脏体外病理、毒理学研究奠定基础。     

PAS染色在骨骼肌糖原贮积症诊断中的应用

目的探讨PAS染色在骨骼肌糖原贮积症诊断中的作用。方法用组织化学方法高碘酸-schiff(periodic acid schiff,PAS)染色方法显示糖原贮积症肌纤维胞浆内糖原的贮积。结果糖原贮积症患者肌纤维胞浆内聚集的红至红紫色颗粒为糖原。结论 PAS染色对于判断细胞内糖原贮积的糖原病和多糖体贮积性疾病的诊断是必要的。     

血管内皮细胞和心脏组织块的立体培养

本文旨在对比研究二维平面与三维立体培养模式下,内皮细胞和心脏组织形态学的差异。采用胶内、胶上、三明治模式、玻片培养小室模型等多种I型胶原立体培养模型,通过免疫荧光技术及显微形态学观察组织和细胞的生长情况。在二维平面培养中,原代心脏血管内皮细胞呈铺路石样排列;而在三维胶原培养模式中,内皮细胞呈长梭状形态,并迁入胶原培养介质中,和体内血管新生及血管生成过程中的内皮细胞活化表型相似。加入血管内皮生长因子(vascular endo- thelial growth factor VEGF)能增强内皮细胞管状结构的形成。在三维胶原中,心脏组织块生长良好,迁出的细胞将相邻组织块连接起来,组织块有自发的搏动。本工作表明,改进的薄层胶原培养、玻片培养小室模型和动脉条模型是较好的研究血管生成和血管新生的工具。在三维培养的情况下,内皮细胞通过空间增殖、迁移和锚定,可形成管状结构,比二维平面培养更适合用于血管新生的研究。不同的立体培养模型可用于不同目的的研究。     

补镁对大鼠血管钙化的影响

目的:在大鼠血管钙化模型上,观察外源性补充硫酸镁对大鼠血管钙化的影响,以探讨硫酸镁在血管钙化中作用及机制。方法:用维生素D3加尼古丁诱导大鼠血管钙化,von Kossa染色、钙含量测定及碱性磷酸酶活性测定判断血管钙化程度;用半定量RT-PCR方法测定血管钙化标志分子骨桥蛋白mRNA水平;用生物化学方法测定血管一氧化氮(NO)、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和丙二醛(MDA)含量。结果:钙化组大鼠血压升高,收缩压较对照组高27%(P<0.05);血管von Kossa染色见血管中膜弹性纤维间可见大量棕黑色颗粒沉积,主动脉钙含量及碱性磷酸酶活性分别较对照高3.9倍和3.4倍(P<0.01),钙化血管组织骨桥蛋白mRNA表达上调40%(P<0.01),血管钙化后可加重血管组织过氧化损伤;而诱导钙化后外源性补充硫酸镁可减轻血管钙化程度,与钙化组比较,低、高剂量硫酸镁组均明显缓解上述指标的变化。结论:诱导血管钙化后外源性补充硫酸镁可以减轻大鼠血管钙化和血管损伤程度。     

Elastoid Changes in the Gingiva of Aged Humans

Elastotic changes were demonstrable in the gingivae of both dentulous and edentulous jaws obtained from both male and female humans varying in age from 62–92 years. Sections of gingivae from all the aged individuals exhibited numerable thick fibers that stained positive with iron hematoxylin or orcein. These positive staining fibers were found in the lamina propria radiating into the connective tissue papillae, coursing throughout the zona reticularis, as well as appearing as black amorphous masses. Pretreatment of sections with acid hydrolysis before staining by the two elastic tissue stains led to a loss of stainable fibers for elastin. In contrast the gingivae of a young adult did not contain elastic positive fibers as seen in the aged gingivae. The thick elastotic fibers found in the aged gingivae were argyrophilic in nature when the sections were impregnated with silver nitrate indicating that they were collagenous in nature. It is felt that the elastoid-like fibers in aging gingiva are another phase in the altering of collagen during the aging process.     

The notochordal sheath in amphioxus--an ultrastructural and histochemical study

The notochord and notochordal sheath of 10 adult amphioxus were investigated ultrastructurally and histochemically. The notochord in amphioxus consists of parallel notochordal cells (plates) and each plate consists of parallel thicker and thinner fibrils and numerous profiles of smooth endoplasmic reticulum situated just beneath the cell membrane. Histochemical staining shows that the notochordal plates resemble neither the connective tissue notochordal sheath nor the typical muscular structure myotomes. The notochordal sheath has a complex three-layered organization with the outer, middle and inner layer The outer and middle layer are composed of collagen fibers of different thickness and course, that correspond to collagen type I and collagen type III in vertebrates, respectively, and the inner layer is amorphous, resembles basal lamina, and is closely attached to the notochord by hemidesmosome junctions. These results confirm the presence of collagen fibers and absence of elastic fibers in amphioxus.     

Magnetic Slides for Support of Grids in Electron Microscopic Autoradiography: Use with the Bubble Technique of Emulsion Application

Movat in 1955 developed a staining method which demonstrates collagen fibers, mucin, muscle fibers, elastic fibers, fibrin and fibrinoid changes in a single section. His procedure was considered excellent by Lynch et al. (1969)     

A combined elastic, fibrin and collagen stain

A method is described which demonstrates nuclei, elastic fibers, red blood cells, collagen and fibrin. Nuclei and elastic fibers are stained by a modified Verhoeff's elastic tissue stain which was previously developed and used in the elastic-Masson combination. Both early fibrin and red blood cells are shown by lissamine fast yellow. Mature fibrin, some types of collagen and other cytoplasmic changes are stained by a combination of acid fuchsin, Biebrich scarlet and ponceau 2R, while old fibrin is demonstrated by the collagen stain. This method takes about 1 hr to perform and has the added advantage that several entities are clearly shown in a single slide.     

A histochemical study of ultraviolet B irradiation and Origanum hypericifolium oil applied to the skin of mice

Abstract

Ultraviolet (UV) rays cause skin damage. Chronic exposure to UV irradiation causes decreased collagen synthesis, degenerative changes in collagen bundles, accumulation of elastotic material and increased epidermal thickness. Origanum hypericifolium, an endemic Turkish plant, belongs to Lamiaceae family. The main constituents of its oil are monoterpenes including cymene, carvacrol, thymol and γ-terpinene. The effects of undiluted O. hypericifolium oil on UVB irradiated skin of mice were investigated histochemically. Four groups of female BALB/c mice, whose dorsal hair was shaved, were allocated as follows: non-UVB irradiated (Group 1), UVB-irradiated (Group 2), O. hypericifolium oil treated (Group 3), and O. hypericifolium oil treated and UVB irradiated (Group 4). Sections of dorsal skin samples were stained with Mallory's phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin for collagen fibers and Taenzer-Unna orcein for elastic fibers. Sections also were stained with hematoxylin and eosin to measure epidermal thickness. We observed intense staining of collagen and homogeneous, scattered thin elastic fibers in Group 1; scattered and weakly stained collagen and curled, amorphous, accumulate elastic fibers in Group 2; and intense staining of collagen in Groups 3 and 4. Accumulation of elastic fibers in the dermis was unremarkable in Groups 3 and 4. In Groups 3 and 4, O. hypericifolium oil treatment thickened the epidermis. Epidermal thickness was greatest in Group 4. We suggest that O. hypericifolium oil may block UVB induced alterations of collagen and elastic fibers, and increase epidermal thickness.     

Stain Technology: A Combined Elastic, Fibrin and Collagen Stain

A method is described which demonstrates nuclei, elastic fibers, red blood cells, collagen and fibrin. Nuclei and elastic fibers are stained by a modified VerhoefPs elastic tissue stain which was previously developed and used in the elastic-Masson combination. Both early fibrin and red blood cells are shown by Hssamine fast yellow. Mature fibrin, some types of collagen and other cytoplasmic changes are stained by a combination of acid fuchsia, Biebrich scarlet and ponceau 2R, while old fibrin is demonstrated by the collagen stain. This method takes about 1 hr to perform and has the added advantage that several entities are clearly shown in a single slide.     

Improved Movat Pentachrome Stain

Movat in 1955 developed a staining method which demonstrates collagen fibers, mucin, muscle fibers, elastic fibers, fibrin and fibrinoid changes in a single section. His procedure was considered excellent by Lynch et al. (1969)     

The Application of Miller's Elastic Stain to Glycol Methacrylate Tissue Sections

The application of Miller's dilute elastic stain followed sequentially by Gill's III hematoxylin and a fast green counterstain produced a reliable and consistent method for differentially staining elastic fibers, nuclei, muscle and collagen in glycol methacrylate tissue sections. Evaluation of different methods of fixation and conditions of staining on animal tissue sections showed that elastic fibers in both perfusion and immersion fixed tissues can be intensely stained. The stability of Miller's elastic stain offers the potential of a commercially available histological stain reagent for coarse and fine elastic fibers in glycol methacrylate tissue sections.     

The application of Miller's elastic stain to glycol methacrylate tissue sections

The application of Miller's dilute elastic stain followed sequentially by Gill's III hematoxylin and a fast green counterstain produced a reliable and consistent method for differentially staining elastic fibers, nuclei, muscle and collagen in glycol methacrylate tissue sections. Evaluation of different methods of fixation and conditions of staining on animal tissue sections showed that elastic fibers in both perfusion and immersion fixed tissues can be intensely stained. The stability of Miller's elastic stain offers the potential of a commercially available histological stain reagent for coarse and fine elastic fibers in glycol methacrylate tissue sections.     

Ultrastructural visualization of carbohydrates in oxytalan fibers in monkey periodontal ligaments

Fullmer's oxytalan fibers appear to be special connective tissue fibers belonging to elastic system fibers. We have ultrastructurally examined carbohydrates in oxytalan fibers in monkey periodontal ligaments after glutaraldehyde fixation and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) decalcification using: Thiéry's periodic acid-thiocarbohydrazide-silver proteinate (PA-TCH-SP) method for thin-section staining of vicinal glycol-containing complex carbohydrates, and the concanavalin A-ferritin (Con A-ferritin) and Con A-horseradish peroxidase (Con-A-HRP) en bloc staining methods specific for alpha-D-mannosyl and alpha-D-glucosyl groups. PA-TCH-SP stained collagen fibrils weakly to moderately and stained oxytalan fibers moderately. Con A-ferritin and Con A-HRP stained collagen fibrils weakly or moderately and stained oxytalan fibers intensely within the superficial region of specimen blocks. The penetration of staining reagents was improved by prior saponin treatment and/or chondroitinase ABC digestion. Thus, these studies demonstrate that PA-TCH-SP and Con A staining of carbohydrates is very useful in identifying oxytalan fibers at the ultrastructural level and that more carbohydrate components are present in oxytalan fibers than in collagen fibrils.