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Rapid-freezing and malachite green-acrolein-osmium tetroxide freeze- substitution fixation improve visualization of extracellular lipids in rat incisor pre-dentin and dentin

M Goldberg and F Escaig

Rat incisor tissue sections were fixed by a modified version of the malachite green-aldehyde method (MGA) composed of rapid-freezing, malachite green-acrolein staining, and osmium tetroxide freeze- substitution (Fr.MGAO). In the pre-dentin, a thick, dense network of branched fibrous structures was observed. Cryotechniques allowed visualization of complexes about twice as thick and dense as the aggregates visualized on MGA-treated sections. Pretreatment of rapid- frozen samples with methanol before freeze-substitution fixation and staining prevented staining of the complexes otherwise revealed by the Fr.MGAO method. Electron-dense material stained by this procedure resisted de-mineralization with EDTA, while intramitochondrial granules and dentin crystallites were dissolved. EDTA treatment demonstrated unequal distribution of Fr.MGAO staining in dentin in the form of tiny dots underlining the collagen fibers. These results support the concept that rapid-freezing, followed by staining and freeze-substitution fixation, improves preservation of the phospholipids visualized as extracellular matrix components in pre-dentin and dentin of rat incisors.

Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 427-433, 04/01/1987
Copyright © 1987 by The Histochemical Society


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