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Visualizing Chemicals and Enzymes in Tissue.
Enzyme histochemistry serves as a link between
biochemistry and morphology.
It is a sensitive dynamic technique that mirrors early
metabolic imbalance of a pathological tissue lesion.
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Histochemistry: Based on chemical reactions
between cell components and stains.
The end products of the reaction are permanent,
colored precipitates that can be viewed under the
microscope.
There are stains specific to each component of the
cell, based on the basic or acidic nature of the dye.
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Basic Principles of Histochemistry
Histochemistry combines the methods of histology with those of
chemistry or biochemistry, to reveal the biochemical
composition of tissues and cells beyond the acid-base
distribution shown by standard staining methods (Hx & E),
without disrupting the normal distribution of the chemicals.
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Application
Identify, quantify, and localize
chemical substances
gene expression
biological structures, organelles
specific cell types
Clarify cell and tissue structure and morphology.
Demarcate functional boundaries.
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Limitations Of the Current Methods
Cannot be used for real time in vivo analysis of any tissue
(requires the removal and killing of the tissue).
Uses in humans limited to biopsied tissues.
For looking at changes in tissue over time, each point in time
requires a new tissue sample from a new animal.
Tissue preparation and histo-chemical analysis may alter
specimen morphology or chemistry depending on the methods
and materials used.
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The goal of Histochemistry
1- Presentation of Normal Chemical Distribution: The
substance being analyzed must not diffuse away
from its original site.
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2- Presentation of Normal Chemical Composition:
The procedure must not block or denature the reactive
chemical groups being analyzed, or change normally
non reactive groups into reactive groups.
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3- Specificity of the Reaction: The method
should be highly specific for the substance or
chemical groups being analyzed, to avoid false-
positive results.
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4- Detectability of the Reaction Product: The
reaction product should be colored or electron
scattering, so that it can be visualized easily
with a light or electron microscope.
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5- Insolubility of the Reaction Product: The
reaction product should be insoluble, so that it
remains in close proximity to the substance it
marks.
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Some important biologic
substances & classic methods for
detecting them
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It is difficult to localize most ions accurately
because of their small size and tendency to diffuse.
However, certain ions are normally
immobilized by their association with tissue proteins.
Examples:-
1 -Ions :
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Iron: Incubating iron-containing tissue in
potassium ferrocyanide and hydrochloric acid
results in precipitation of dark blue ferric
ferrocyanide (Perls' reaction).
This reaction is used to identify cells involved in
hemoglobin metabolism and to diagnose diseases
characterized by iron deposits in tissues
(hemosiderosis).
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Calcium Phosphate: Von Kossa technique
Tissue phosphates react with silver nitrate to
form silver phosphate, which reacts with
hydroquinone to form a black precipitate of
reduced silver.
This reaction is used to study calcium phosphate
deposition during bone formation.
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Von Kossa technique
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2- Lipids:
Such methods are used to show normal lipid
distribution and disease-related lipid
accumulation (eg, fatty change in the liver).
Lipids are usually dissolved by organic fixatives
or clearing agents, leaving gaps in the tissue, but
they are preserved in frozen sections.
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For light microscopy, lipids are best demonstrated by
dyes that are more soluble in lipid than in the dye
solvents (eg, Sudan IV, Sudan black, and Oil red 0).
EM specimens are treated with reagents that react with
lipids to form insoluble precipitates (eg, osmium
tetroxide).
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Oil red 0
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3- Nucleic Acids:
The nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, can be
localized by specific and non specific methods.
DNA is found mainly in nuclei, and its amount
is much the same in every cell.
RNA is found both in nuclei and in cytoplasm,
and its amount varies widely, depending on a cell's
functional state.
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Feulgen's reaction: determine the amounts of DNA.
Methyl Green Pyronin Stain to determine DNA and
RNA
Acridine orange: The fluorescence is yellow green if
the complex contains DNA and red-orange if it contains
RNA.
Neoplastic and other rapidly growing cells contain more
RNA than slower-growing cells.
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Basic dyes .
Both DNA and RNA stain nonspecifically with basic dyes. Because
of the strong affinity of RNA for such dyes, its distribution in cells
and tissues may be studied by subtraction.
In this procedure, one of 2 adjacent sections is treated with
ribonuclease (RNase) to remove RNA; then both are stained
with basic dyes (eg, hematoxylin, toluidine blue, methylene
blue).
Basophilic structures present in the untreated section (eg.
ribosomes) but absent in the RNase-treated section contain RNA.
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4- Proteins and Amino Acids:
Older methods of protein identification are nonspecific for
proteins but specific for particular amino acids.
Examples: Million reaction for tyrosine, Sakaguchi
reaction for arginine, tetrazotized benzidine reaction
for tryptophan.
Specific classes of enzymes can be detected by the
techniques of enzyme histochemistry.
Specific proteins can now be localized by using
immuno-histochemistry.
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5- Carbohydrates:
Complex carbohydrates, ie, polysaccharides and
oligosaccharides, can be localized by many histochemical
techniques.
In addition, some carbohydrates are immunogenic owing
to their large size or their presence as covalently linked
components (proteoglycans, glycoproteins, glycolipids);
these can be analyzed by immuno-histochemical
methods.
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PAS reaction: The periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reaction is a
common technique for demonstrating polysaccharides,
particularly glycogen.
Because the PAS reaction stains many complex carbohydrates,
the specific localization of glycogen requires enzymatic
subtraction of glycogen from an adjacent section with amylase.
This method is used to distinguish among types of glycogen
storage diseases.
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Alcian blue: Alcian blue is a non-specific basic stain at
neutral pH, but it is specific for sulfate groups at acidic
pH.
It is used to demonstrate sulfated glycosaminoglycans
(eg, chondroitin sulfate) that are abundant in the
extracellular matrix of cartilage.
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Ruthenium red: Ruthenium red useful in EM
demonstration of polysaccharides.
Lectins: Lectins are highly specific sugar-binding
proteins found in plants and animals.
Fluorescently labeled lectins can show the distribution of
specific terminal sugar residues on oligosaccharides, such
as those in the glycocalyx of cell membranes.
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6- Catecholamines:
The catecholamines, including epinephrine and
norepinephrine, fluoresce in the presence of dry
formaldehyde vapor at 60-80 "C.
This reaction is used in studies of catecholamine
distribution in nervous tissue.
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Enzyme Histochemistry
The techniques of enzyme histochemistry, which relate structure
and function, can be used to locate many enzymes, including acid
phosphatase, dehydrogenases, and peroxidases.
Because fixation and clearing typically inactivate enzymes, frozen
sections are commonly used.
The sections are incubated in solutions containing substrates for the
enzymes of interest and reagents that yield insoluble colored or
electron-dense precipitates at the sites of enzyme activity.
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Acid Phosphatase: Owing to their characteristic
content of acid phosphatase in lysosomes.
lysosomes can be distinguished from other cytoplasmic
granules and organelles through the use of enzyme
histochemistry.
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Dehydrogenases: Dehydrogenases can be localized
by incubating tissue sections with an appropriate
substrate and tetrazole.
Specific dehydrogenases can be targeted by
choosing specific substrates.
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Peroxidases: Peroxidases are most often
demonstrated by incubating tissue with 3,3'
diaminobenzidine (DAB) and hydrogen peroxide.
This reaction is useful for both light and electron
microscopy.
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Example of some enzymatic
reactions
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Skeletal muscle biopsySkeletal muscle biopsy
Cryostat sections of unfixed skeletal muscle show the
presence of different fiber types.
Muscle biopsy samples are of two types:
Open biopsy specimens: removed from the thigh under
general anesthesia.
Needle biopsy sample: from any site.
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Biopsies placed in a gauze damped by saline and
transferred to the lab. as quickly as possible.
Under dissecting microscope, biopsies are gently
manipulated and trimmed so that the fibers in each are
running in the same direction and a composite block is
made of all samples.
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)i (ATPase )i (ATPase
Used at different pH to distinguish between different
types of fibers.
This test is diagnostically important since muscle
diseases have characteristics patterns of loss of specific
fiber types or sub-types
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)ii (NAD diaphorase )ii (NAD diaphorase
Demonstrates mitochondria and the fiber sarcoplasmic
reticulum of the fiber.
)iii (Phosphorylase )iii (Phosphorylase
Distinguish between type 1 and 2 muscle fibers, but fade
quickly.
It is used to exclude McArdle’s disease (phosphorylase
deficiency).
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)iv (Phosphatase or non-specific esterase )iv (Phosphatase or non-specific esterase
Identify macrophages in necrotic fibers and abnormal lysosomal activity in muscle
fibers
)v (Cholinesterase
To demonstrate intramascular nerve twigs.