Lysosomal origin of the chloragosomes in the chloragogenous tissue of the earthwormEisenia foetida: cytochemical demonstration of acid phosphatase activity

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 591-596
Author(s):  
I. Cancio ◽  
I. ap Gwynn ◽  
M. P. Ireland ◽  
M. P. Cajaraville
1971 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASANDO HAYASHI

A simultaneous coupling azo-indoxyl method for the cytochemical demonstration of acid phosphatase activity using p-toluidine salt of 1-acetyl-3-indolyl phosphate is described. A satisfactory staining for the enzyme activity was obtained following incubation of formol-calcium-fixed frozen sections for 30 min at 25°C in a medium containing 1 mM each of the substrate and hexazonium pararosanilin and adjusted to pH 4.5-5.0 with acetate buffer. The distribution of acid phosphatase activity demonstrated by this method was identical with that obtained either by Gomori's technique using β-glycerophosphate as substrate or by the Barka and Anderson's naphthol AS-BI phosphate-hexazonium pararosanilin method in several tissues of male rats so far examined. However, the adrenal enzyme activity was most prominent in the medulla with 1-acetyl-3-indolyl phosphate and β-glycerophosphate but it was more marked in the cortex with naphthol AS-BI phosphate. An advantage of using 1-acetyl-3-indolyl phosphate as substrate is that the same compound can be used for comparing azo-indoxyl and lead-salt methods. Effects of phospholipase C and Triton X-100 on staining for acid phosphatase were tested by pretreating fixed rat liver and kidney sections with these agents and incubating them in the medium containing 1-acetyl-3-indolyl phosphate and either hexazonium pararosanilin or lead ions as a coupler. The pretreatment did not change discrete lysosomal staining, as seen in untreated controls, using pararosanilin as a coupler, but greatly modified the staining using lead ions. The results indicate that the preciseness of staining for acid phosphatase with lead-salt method is highly dependent on some lipid material which attracts lead in tissues and that appropriately devised azo dye or azo-indoxyl methods demonstrate enzyme sites more accurately than lead-salt method.


Author(s):  
O. T. Minick ◽  
E. Orfei ◽  
F. Volini ◽  
G. Kent

Hemolytic anemias were produced in rats by administering phenylhydrazine or anti-erythrocytic (rooster) serum, the latter having agglutinin and hemolysin titers exceeding 1:1000.Following administration of phenylhydrazine, the erythrocytes undergo oxidative damage and are removed from the circulation by the cells of the reticulo-endothelial system, predominantly by the spleen. With increasing dosage or if animals are splenectomized, the Kupffer cells become an important site of sequestration and are greatly hypertrophied. Whole red cells are the most common type engulfed; they are broken down in digestive vacuoles, as shown by the presence of acid phosphatase activity (Fig. 1). Heinz body material and membranes persist longer than native hemoglobin. With larger doses of phenylhydrazine, erythrocytes undergo intravascular fragmentation, and the particles phagocytized are now mainly red cell fragments of varying sizes (Fig. 2).


2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Salles de Souza Malaspina ◽  
Célio Xavier dos Santos ◽  
Ana Paula Campanelli ◽  
Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo ◽  
Mari Cleide Sogayar ◽  
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