Rapid assessment of islet viability with acridine orange and propidium iodide |
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Authors: | Harvey L. Bank |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, 29425 Charleston, South Carolina |
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Abstract: | Summary A simple, rapid method for estimating the viability of isolated islets of Langerhans with fluorescent dyes is described. Low concentrations of acridine orange and propidium iodide (AO/PI) were used to visualize living and dead islet cells simultaneously. AO/PI-stained islets can be divided into three distinct groups. Group A islets fluoresce green, contain insulin, and have normal ultrastructure; group C islets fluoresce primarily red, contain little or no insulin, and have cells with disrupted cellular membranes. Group B islets fluoresce red, green, and yellow. The yellow color is due to the addition of two primary colors from the superimposed red and green fluorescing cells. In this assay, the interpretation that red islet cells are dead and green islet cells are alive was confirmed by sequentially staining single islet cells with AO/PI and trypan blue. The observation that red islets are dead was confirmed by heat-killing, enzymatically damaging, treating with ethanol, or depriving islets of nutrients and observing the red fluorescence. This assay should be useful in studies where the assessment of islet viability is essential. Preliminary reports of this work were presented at two meetings and were published in abstract form (24,25). This research was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, grant DK 18115. |
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Keywords: | fluorescent dyes acridine orange propidium iodide diabetes insulin islets of Langerhans radioimmunoassay |
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