scholarly journals Immunohistochemical localization of human immunoglobulins and lysozyme in epoxy-embedded lymph nodes: effect of different fixatives and of proteolytic digestion.

1982 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 630-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Dell'Orto ◽  
G Viale ◽  
R Colombi ◽  
P Braidotti ◽  
G Coggi
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Staining Technique ◽  
Immunohistochemical Localization ◽  
Immunoperoxidase Staining ◽  
Proteolytic Digestion ◽  
Enzymatic Pretreatment ◽  
Heavy Chains ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Human Immunoglobulins ◽  
Immunohistochemical Studies

The postembedding immunoperoxidase staining technique for the localization of immunoglobulins (light and heavy chains) and of lysozyme has been successfully applied to epoxy-embedded human lymph nodes, after removal of the resin. Glutaraldehyde-containing fixatives appear to be suitable for the immunohistochemical localization of human immunoglobulins and lysozyme, provided that the masked antigenicity of these proteins is recovered by proteolytic digestion of the tissue sections using 0.4% pepsin or 0.1% trypsin. Nonglutaraldehyde-containing fixatives allow the immunolocalization of human immunoglobulins without any enzymatic pretreatment. This study shows that tissues routinely fixed in glutaraldehyde and embedded for ultrastructural investigations are actually suitable for immunohistochemical studies on human immunoglobulins and lysozyme.

scholarly journals Tissue Immunoglobulins in Nodular Lymphomas as Compared With Reactive Follicular Hyperplasias

Blood ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul C. Braylan ◽  
Henry Rappaport
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Germinal Centers ◽  
Distinctive Pattern ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Follicular Hyperplasia ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Human Immunoglobulins ◽  
Frozen Tissue ◽  
Follicular Lymphomas ◽  
Network Pattern

Abstract Frozen tissue sections of lymph nodes and spleens from twelve patients with nodular (follicular) lymphomas were studied with fluorescein-labeled antisera against human immunoglobulins. Immunoglobulins detected by this method in the neoplastic nodules were minimal or absent. Furthermore, in no instance could the characteristic network pattern of immunoglobulin distribution which is readily demonstrable in active germinal centers be observed within these nodules. It is suggested that the preservation of the follicular network of immunoglobulins as observed by fluorescent antihuman IgG, IgM, or polyvalent antisera indicates functionally intact germinal centers. The detection, by this rather simple method, of large amounts of immunoglobulin distributed in such a distinctive pattern may thus be very useful for the differentiation between severe benign follicular hyperplasia and malignant lymphoma with nodular pattern, which may be difficult to distinguish by routine histological methods.

scholarly journals The mononuclear phagocyte system of the mouse defined by immunohistochemical localization of antigen F4/80. Relationship between macrophages, Langerhans cells, reticular cells, and dendritic cells in lymphoid and hematopoietic organs.

1983 ◽  
Vol 158 (5) ◽  
pp. 1522-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
D A Hume ◽  
A P Robinson ◽  
G G MacPherson ◽  
S Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Specific Antigen ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Immunohistochemical Localization ◽  
Mononuclear Phagocyte ◽  
Immunoperoxidase Staining ◽  
Hematopoietic Tissue ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Subcapsular Sinus ◽  
Interdigitating Cell

The macrophage-specific antigen F4/80 has been localized in mouse lymphoid and hematopoietic tissue and skin using immunoperoxidase staining. The antigen permits identification of early mononuclear phagocyte precursors in the bone marrow, and is present also on larger cells forming the center of hematopoietic islands and lining vascular sinuses. In thymus F4/80+ cells are numerous in both cortex and medulla and are particularly concentrated around the corticomedullary region. In spleen, lymph node, and gut-associated lymphoid areas the major F4/80+ populations are in the red pulp, the medulla and subcapsular sinus, and the adjacent lamina propria, respectively. F4/80+ cells are rarely seen in T-dependent areas of lymph nodes, spleen, or Peyer's patch, but are present in large numbers in these areas during bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-induced inflammation. Macrophage infiltration occurs also in lymph nodes from athymic nu/nu mice and is therefore T cell independent. The interdigitating cell of T-dependent areas is F4/80-, but the Langerhans cell of the epidermis of the skin, which bears some ultrastructural resemblance to the interdigitating cell, is F4/80+. We conclude that the two cell types are probably not related.

Macroglobulin Structure: Homology of Mu and Gamma Heavy Chains of Human Immunoglobulins

Science ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 163 (3862) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Wikler ◽  
H. Kohler ◽  
T. Shinoda ◽  
F. W. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Chains ◽  
Human Immunoglobulins

Further Characterization of Storage-Related Alterations in Immunoreactivity of Archival Tissue Sections and its Implications for Collaborative Multicenter Immunohistochemical Studies

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa ◽  
J. Olufemi Ogunbiyi ◽  
E. Hugh MacKay ◽  
Charles A. Muronda ◽  
Temitope O. Alonge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Archival Tissue ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Immunohistochemical Studies

scholarly journals Detection and characterisation of papillomavirus in skin lesions of giraffe and sable antelope in South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Van Dyk ◽  
A-M Bosman ◽  
E. Van Wilpe ◽  
J. H. Williams ◽  
R. G. Bengis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Pcr ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Immunoperoxidase Staining ◽  
Bovine Papillomavirus ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Equine Sarcoid ◽  
Pcr Product ◽  
Papillomavirus Dna

Papillomavirus was detected electron microscopically in cutaneous fibropapillomas of a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) and a sable antelope (Hippotragus niger). The virus particles measured 45 nm in diameter. Histopathologically, the lesions showed histopathological features similar to those of equine sarcoid as well as positive immunoperoxidase-staining of tissue sections for papillomavirus antigen. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detected bovine papillomavirus (BPV) DNA. Bovine papillomavirus-1 was characterised by real-time PCR in the sable and giraffe, and cloning and sequencing of the PCR product revealed a similarity to BPV-1. As in the 1st giraffe, the lesions from a 2nd giraffe revealed locally malignant pleomorphism, possibly indicating the lesional end-point of papilloma infection. Neither virus particles nor positively staining papillomavirus antigen could be demonstrated in the 2nd giraffe but papillomavirus DNA was detected by real-time PCR which corresponded with BPV-1 and BPV-2.

scholarly journals Factors affecting the sensitivity and specificity of the cytochemical reaction for the anti-horseradish peroxidase antibody in lymph tissue sections.

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 645-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Straus
Keyword(s):  
Horseradish Peroxidase ◽  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Peroxidase Activity ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Endogenous Peroxidase ◽  
Cytochemical Reaction ◽  
Cold Acetone ◽  
Antibody Reaction

Factors which increase the sensitivity and specificity of the cytochemical reaction for the antibody to horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in precursors of plasma cells and in lymphocytes were studied in sections of popliteal lymph nodes of rats. The lymph nodes were removed 3-5 days after a secondary injection of HRP into the footpads and were fixed for 5 hr in a 4% cold formaldehyde solution (Straus W: Histochemistry 53:273, 1977). Brief postfixation of the frozen sections with cold acetone improved the retention of the antigen at the sites of the antibody in the precursor cells, and it improved the quality of fixation without appreciably weakening the antigen-binding capacity of the antibody. The cytochemical reaction for the anti-HRP antibody was intensified by staining with diaminobenzidine (DAB) and H2O2 at pH 5-6, or by staining at pH 7.4 in the presence of imidazole. Imidazole partially inhibited endogenous peroxidase activity. Pretreatment with phenylhydrazine prevented nonspecific background adsorption of HRP. Phenylhydrazine had the additional advantage of inhibiting most of the endogenous peroxidase activity (Straus W: J Histochem Cytochem 20:949, 1972). The intensity of the antibody reaction in the proplasma cells developing in the medullary cords varied greatly depending on the stage of maturation from lymphocytes and blast cells. Many lymphocytes in the cortex of the lymph node showed a strong perinuclear antibody reaction when the tissue sections were postfixed with cold acetone, and the peroxidase complexed to the antibody was visualized by staining with DAB and H2O2 at pH 5-6. The antibody reaction also occurred at the surgace of many lymphocytes when the tissue sections, postfixed with cold acetone, were stained with DAB and H2O2 at pH 7.4 in the presence of imidazole. Other lymphocytes showed a strong surface, perinuclear, and cytoplasmic antibody reaction after staining at pH 5-6 as well as after staining at pH 7.4, while yet other lymphocytes remained unstained.

scholarly journals Amino acid sequence of the N-terminal sixty-nine residues of heavy chain derived from a homogeneous rabbit antibody

1972 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Jaton ◽  
D. G. Braun
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Heavy Chain ◽  
Sequence Variation ◽  
Sequence Variability ◽  
Rabbit Antibody ◽  
Heavy Chains ◽  
Human Immunoglobulins ◽  
Variable Section ◽  
Chain Sequence

The sequence of the N-terminal 69 residues of heavy chain from a homogeneous rabbit antibody to type III pneumococcal polysaccharide was determined. The sequence is similar to that found in heavy chains of normal pooled rabbit immunoglobulins of the same allotype Aa1. Two regions of the homogeneous heavy chain (residues 35–46 and 62–69) are very similar to corresponding regions of heavy chains from rabbit Aa2 immunoglobulin, as well as from mouse, guinea-pig and human immunoglobulins. In contrast, residues 47–62 appear to be variable. Comparison in this section with another homogeneous anti-pneumococcal antibody (Strosberg et al., 1972) of related specificity and of the same allotype indicates sequence variation in at least three positions. An antibody to group C streptococcal carbohydrate of allotype Aa2 (Fleischman, 1971) differs by five amino acids in the same region of the heavy chain. Sequence variability between these three antibodies does not occur in homologous positions within this variable section. Allotype-related sequences could not be identified in section 34–65.

Sexually dimorphic expression of myosin heavy chains in the adult mouse masseter

2000 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane M. Eason ◽  
Gail A. Schwartz ◽  
Grace K. Pavlath ◽  
Arthur W. English
Keyword(s):  
Adult Mouse ◽  
Fiber Type ◽  
Masticatory Muscles ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Heavy Chains ◽  
Tissue Sections ◽  
Type Composition ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic Expression ◽  
Dimorphic Expression

Little is known regarding the role of androgenic hormones in the maintenance of myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of rodent masticatory muscles. Because the masseter is the principal jaw closer in rodents, we felt it was important to characterize the influence of androgenic hormones on the MHC composition of the masseter. To determine the extent of sexual dimorphism in the phenotype of masseter muscle fibers of adult (10-mo-old) C57 mice, we stained tissue sections with antibodies specific to type IIa and IIb MHC isoforms. Females contain twice as many fibers containing the IIa MHC as males, and males contain twice as many fibers containing the IIb MHC as females. There is a modest amount of regionalization of MHC phenotypes in the mouse masseter. The rostral portions of the masseter are composed mostly of type IIa fibers, whereas the midsuperficial and caudal regions contain mostly type IIb fibers. Using immunoblots, we showed that castration results in an increase in the expression of type IIa MHC fibers in males. Ovariectomy has no effect on the fiber type composition in females. We conclude that testosterone plays a role in the maintenance of MHC expression in the adult male mouse masseter.

Human Kallikrein 14 (Klk14) Expression in Salivary Gland Tumors

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly N. Hashem ◽  
Thomas W. Mara ◽  
Mohamed Mohamed ◽  
Irene Zhang ◽  
Kevin Fung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Salivary Glands ◽  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Staining Technique ◽  
Tumor Stage ◽  
Salivary Gland Tumors ◽  
Immunoperoxidase Staining ◽  
Clinical Parameters ◽  
Ductal Cells

Objective To analyze the expression of human kallikrein 14 (KLK14) in salivary gland tumors. Methods A standard immunoperoxidase staining technique was used to assess the expression profile of KLK14 in normal salivary glands and tumors including pleomorphic adenoma (PA; n=17), adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC; n=13) and mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC; n=9). Tumor stage, grade, patient age and gender, and site of occurrence were recorded. These clinical parameters were correlated with KLK14 levels in malignant tumors. The expression profiles for KLK3, 5, 6, 8 and 13 were also retrieved. Results Normal salivary glands, PA, ACC and MEC showed strong expression of KLK14 in ductal and non-ductal cells. Both PA and ACC showed higher KLK14 levels than normal glands and MEC tissues. There were no statistically significant associations between levels of KLK14 and clinical parameters. Conclusions The differences in the levels of KLK14 suggest that KLKs may aid in the differential diagnosis of salivary gland tumors. The coexpression of KLKs suggests their possible involvement in an enzymatic pathway activated in salivary gland. KLK14 may be a promising new biomarker in salivary gland tumors.

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