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The use of unfixed cryostat sections for electron microscopic study of D-amino acid oxidase activity in rat liver

JP Schellens, WM Frederiks, CJ Van Noorden, H Vreeling-Sindelarova, F Marx and PJ McMillan

Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Unfixed cryostat sections of rat liver were incubated to demonstrate D- amino acid oxidase activity at the ultrastructural level. Incubation was performed by mounting the sections on a semipermeable membrane which was stretched over a gelled incubation medium containing D- proline as substrate and cerium ions as capture reagent for hydrogen peroxide. After an incubation period of 30 min, ultrastructural morphology was retained to such an extent that the final reaction product could be localized in peroxisomes, whereas the crystalline core remained unstained. Control incubations were performed in the absence of substrate; the lack of final reaction product in peroxisomes indicated the specificity of the reaction. We conclude that the semipermeable membrane technique opens new perspectives for localization of enzyme activities at the ultrastructural level without prior tissue fixation, thus enabling localization of the activity of soluble and/or labile enzymes.

Volume 40, Issue 12, pp. 1975-1979, 12/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society


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