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Calcitonin and chromogranin A localization in medullary carcinoma of the thyroid by immunoelectron microscopy

MM Silver, SA Hearn, LD Lines and M Troster

Department of Pathology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We used a post-embedding immunoelectron microscopy method, using protein A-gold, to detect calcitonin and chromogranin A immunoreactivity in three cases of human medullary thyroid carcinoma. Because the epoxy-embedded tissue had been fixed (glutaraldehyde or formaldehyde) and osmicated before embedment, the proteins were identified in optimally preserved tissue. Uranyl and lead staining was used after immunolabeling, so that the tissue was also optimally contrasted. The morphological advantage provided by osmication was tested by labeling rat thyroid gland C-cells for calcitonin. The protein A-gold technique allowed localization of both antigens to the contents of membrane-bound secretory granules in the tumor cells. In one case, labeling density for each antigen was measured over several intercellular compartments and the interstitium. Calcitonin, but not chromogranin A, reactivity was also identified in intracellular amyloid fibrils in two cases, showing that the constant region of calcitonin is preserved in amyloid deposits related to the tumor cells.

Volume 36, Issue 8, pp. 1031-1036, 08/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The Histochemical Society


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