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Relationship between immunostaining intensity and antigen content in sections
J Watanabe, Y Asaka and S Kanamura
Department of Anatomy, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan.
We studied the relationship between staining intensity of immunohistochemical reaction and antigen content in sections. Alpha- fetoprotein (AFP) and albumin in sections cut from livers of newborn, 5- , 10-, 20-, and 60-day-old rats were examined as examples. First, we compared average immunostaining intensity (sum of specific absorbance in pixel/number of pixels) measured by image processing (IP), with antigen content measured by immunochemical assay to determine whether the intensity is proportional to antigen content. The intensity of AFP was proportional to the antigen content, whereas that of albumin was not. Subsequently, the antigen preservation test was carried out to determine whether the intensity was decreased by fixation and, if so, which type of decrease (proportional or disproportionate) occurred. Thereafter, antigen content in the same portion in the same immunostained section was measured by the microphotometric (MP) method followed by the IP method, because the MP method gives a low average antigen content when a decrease in antibody binding occurs in sections, whereas the average antigen content measured by the IP method is unchanged. The intensity of AFP decreased primarily by a proportional decrease in antigenicity during fixation. However, the intensity of albumin decreased not only by a proportional decrease during fixation but also by a disproportionate reduction in antibody binding during immunostaining or before fixation. The results indicate that AFP content in sections is measurable by quantitative immunohistochemical methods, whereas albumin content is not.
Volume 44,
Issue 12,
pp. 1451-1458,
12/01/1996
Copyright © 1996 by The Histochemical Society
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