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Walters DK, Jelinek DF. Multiplex Immunofluorescence of Bone Marrow Core Biopsies: Visualizing the Bone Marrow Immune Contexture. J Histochem Cytochem 2019; 68:99-112. [PMID: 31855110 DOI: 10.1369/0022155419896802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The ability to visualize and quantify the spatial arrangement and geographic proximity of immune cells with tumor cells provides valuable insight into the complex mechanisms underlying cancer biology and progression. Multiplexing, which involves immunofluorescence labeling and the visualization of multiple epitopes within formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue sections, is a methodology that is being increasingly employed. Despite the power of immunofluorescence multiplex analysis, application of this technology to bone marrow core biopsies has not yet been realized. Given our specific long term goal to identify immune cells in proximity to bone marrow malignant plasma cells in multiple myeloma patients, we describe in this study adaptation of multiplex immunofluorescence analysis to this tissue. We first identified a blocking strategy that quenched autofluorescence. We next employed a multiplex strategy that uses a simple stripping solution to remove primary and secondary antibodies prior to subsequent rounds of staining. This method was found to be highly efficient and did not significantly alter antigenicity or tissue integrity. Our studies illustrate for the first time that immunofluorescence multiplexing is achievable in bone marrow core biopsies and will provide a novel opportunity to analyze the role of the immune contexture in disease progression of the monoclonal gammopathies.
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- Denise K Walters
- Department of Immunology, College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Department of Immunology, College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and Scottsdale, Arizona
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Zaglia T, Di Bona A, Chioato T, Basso C, Ausoni S, Mongillo M. Optimized protocol for immunostaining of experimental GFP-expressing and human hearts. Histochem Cell Biol 2016; 146:407-19. [PMID: 27311322 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-016-1456-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Morphological and histochemical analysis of the heart is fundamental for the understanding of cardiac physiology and pathology. The accurate detection of different myocardial cell populations, as well as the high-resolution imaging of protein expression and distribution, within the diverse intracellular compartments, is essential for basic research on disease mechanisms and for the translatability of the results to human pathophysiology. While enormous progress has been made on the imaging hardware and methods and on biotechnological tools [e.g., use of green fluorescent protein (GFP), viral-mediated gene transduction] to investigate heart cell structure and function, most of the protocols to prepare heart tissue samples for analysis have remained almost identical for decades. We here provide a detailed description of a novel protocol of heart processing, tailored to the simultaneous detection of tissue morphology, immunofluorescence markers and native emission of fluorescent proteins (i.e., GFP). We compared a variety of procedures of fixation, antigen unmasking and tissue permeabilization, to identify the best combination for preservation of myocardial morphology and native GFP fluorescence, while simultaneously allowing detection of antibody staining toward sarcomeric, membrane, cytosolic and nuclear markers. Furthermore, with minimal variations, we implemented such protocol for the study of human heart samples, including those already fixed and stored with conventional procedures, in tissue archives or bio-banks. In conclusion, a procedure is here presented for the laboratory investigation of the heart, in both rodents and humans, which accrues from the same tissue section information that would normally require the time-consuming and tissue-wasting observation of multiple serial sections.
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- Tania Zaglia
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58/b, 35133, Padua, Italy. .,Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Via Orus 2, 35129, Padua, Italy.
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- Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Via Orus 2, 35129, Padua, Italy.,Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Via A. Gabelli, 61, 35121, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Via A. Gabelli, 61, 35121, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58/b, 35133, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58/b, 35133, Padua, Italy.,Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Via Orus 2, 35129, Padua, Italy.,CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Viale G. Colombo 3, 35121, Padua, Italy
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Sun Y, Yu H, Zheng D, Cao Q, Wang Y, Harris D, Wang Y. Sudan black B reduces autofluorescence in murine renal tissue. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2011; 135:1335-42. [PMID: 21970489 DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2010-0549-oa] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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CONTEXT Renal tissue emits intense autofluorescence, making it difficult to differentiate specific immunofluorescence signals and thus limiting its application to clinical biopsy material. OBJECTIVE To identify and minimize autofluorescence of renal tissue and demonstrate a simple, efficient method to reduce autofluorescence using Sudan black B. DESIGN In this study, the sources and features of autofluorescence emitted from kidney tissue were examined. Broad autofluorescence was visualized in both frozen and paraffin kidney sections of normal mice and mice with Adriamycin-induced nephropathy using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Autofluorescence appeared in commonly used 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, fluorescein isothiocyanate, and Texas Red channels but not in far-red channel, and emitted extensively from red cells, injured tubulointersitial cells, and protein casts in diseased kidney. To eliminate autofluorescence, Sudan black B was used on formaldehyde-fixed paraffin sections and frozen sections of mouse kidney. The effects of Sudan black B in various concentrations were tested on kidney tissue. RESULTS The 0.1% Sudan black B effectively blocked autofluorescence from both paraffin and frozen sections without adversely affecting specific fluorescence signals. Interestingly, the solvent for Sudan black B, 70% ethanol, was also shown to reduce autofluorescence on frozen sections, but not on paraffin sections. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates a simple, efficient, and cost-effective method to reduce autofluorescence using Sudan black B, and also provides a comprehensive approach to identify and minimize autofluorescence of renal tissue.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Pediatrics, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Baschong W, Suetterlin R, Laeng RH. Control of autofluorescence of archival formaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue in confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). J Histochem Cytochem 2001; 49:1565-72. [PMID: 11724904 DOI: 10.1177/002215540104901210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) offers the advantage of quasi-theoretical resolution due to absence of interference with out-of-focus light. Prerequisites include minimal tissue autofluorescence, either intrinsic or induced by fixation and tissue processing, and minimal background fluorescence due to nonspecific binding of the fluorescent label. To eliminate or reduce autofluorescence, three different reagents, ammonia-ethanol, sodium borohydride, and Sudan Black B were tested on paraffin sections of archival formaldehyde-fixed tissue. Paraffin sections of biopsy specimens of human bone marrow, myocardium, and of bovine cartilage were compared by CLSM at 488-nm, 568-nm and 647-nm wavelengths with bone marrow frozen sections fixed either with formaldehyde or with glutaraldehyde. Autofluorescence of untreated sections related to both the specific type of tissue and to the tissue processing technique, including fixation. The reagents' effects also depended on the type of tissue and technique of tissue processing, including fixation, and so did the efficiency of the reagents tested. Therefore, no general recipe for the control of autofluorescence could be delineated. Ammonia-ethanol proved most efficient in archival bone marrow sections. Sudan Black B performed best on myocardium, and the combination of all three reagents proved most efficient on paraffin sections of cartilage and on frozen sections fixed in formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde. Sodium borohydride was required for the reduction of unwanted fluorescence in glutaraldehyde-fixed tissue. In formaldehyde-fixed tissue, however, sodium borohydride induced brilliant autofluorescence in erythrocytes that otherwise remained inconspicuous. Ammonia-ethanol is believed to reduce autofluorescence by improving the extraction of fluorescent molecules and by inactivating pH-sensitive fluorochromes. The efficiency of borohydride is related to its capacity of reducing aldehyde and keto-groups, thus changing the fluorescence of tissue constituents and especially of glutaraldehyde-derived condensates. Sudan Black B is suggested to mask fluorescent tissue components.
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- W Baschong
- M. E. Muller Institute at the Biozentrum, Aarau, Switzerland.
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Widengren J, Schwille P. Characterization of Photoinduced Isomerization and Back-Isomerization of the Cyanine Dye Cy5 by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp000059s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jerker Widengren
- Department of Spectroscopy and Photochemical Kinetics, and Department of Experimental Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 370 77 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Spectroscopy and Photochemical Kinetics, and Department of Experimental Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 370 77 Göttingen, Germany
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Noonberg SB, Garovoy MR, Hunt CA. Characteristics of oligonucleotide uptake in human keratinocyte cultures. J Invest Dermatol 1993; 101:727-31. [PMID: 8228335 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12371683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotides have the potential to interfere selectively with cellular protein synthesis by sequence-specific hybridization to DNA or RNA molecules. We have investigated the properties of uptake and intracellular localization of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotides in cultured human keratinocytes using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Unlike many other cell types studied, keratinocytes can internalize oligonucleotides without apparent sequestration in endosomes or cell surface accumulation. Uptake is primarily nuclear and unaltered by sodium azide, monensin, or chloroquine pretreatment. We have verified our results with two different fluorophores, fluorescein and Bodipy, and found similar uptake and distribution patterns in both live and fixed cell populations. Surprisingly, we have found uptake to be heterogeneous within a population, with 15-30% of cells internalizing the oligonucleotides. This percentage is drastically increased to roughly 80% at cell population margins, and after release from M phase arrest. These results on uptake and intracellular localization suggest that keratinocytes may have increased sensitivity as target cells for oligonucleotide based gene regulation strategies.
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