The effects of storage on the retention of enzyme activity in cryostat sections. A quantitative histochemical study on rat liver |
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Authors: | Wilma M. Frederiks Ilse J. M. Ouwerkerk Klazina S. Bosch Frans Marx Arnold Kooij Cornelis J. F. Van Noorden |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Summary The effect of storage of unfixed cryostat sections from rat liver for 4 h, 24 h, 3 days and 7 days at -25°C was studied on the activities of lactate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, xanthine oxidoreductase, glutamate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase (all demonstrated with tetrazolium salt procedures), glucose-6-phosphatase (cerium-diaminobenzidine method), 5 -nucleotidase (lead salt method), dipeptidyl peptidase II, acid phosphatase (both simultaneous azo coupling methods), d-amino acid oxidase (cerium-diaminobenzidine-cobalt-hydrogen peroxide procedure) and catalase (diaminobenzidine method). The effect of drying of the cryostat sections at room temperature for 5 and 60 min was investigated as well. The enzyme activities were quantified by cytophotometric measurements of test and control reactions. The test minus control reaction was taken as a measure for specific enzyme activity. It was found that the activities of all the enzymes investigated, with one exception, were affected neither by storage of the cryostat sections at -25°C for up to 7 days, nor by drying of the sections at room temperature for up to 60 min. The exception was xanthine oxidoreductase, whose activity was reduced by 20% after 5 min drying of sections or after 4 h storage. Therefore, only incubations for xanthine oxidoreductase activity have to be performed immediately after cutting cryostat sections, whereas for the other enzymes a considerable margin appears to exist. |
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