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DOI: 10.1369/jhc.4R6460.2005
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Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Volume 53 (2): 141-153, 2005
Copyright ©The Histochemical Society, Inc.

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Zinc-specific Autometallographic In Vivo Selenium Methods : Tracing of Zinc-enriched (ZEN) Terminals, ZEN Pathways, and Pools of Zinc Ions in a Multitude of Other ZEN Cells

Gorm Danscher and Meredin Stoltenberg

Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark

Correspondence to: Dr. Gorm Danscher, Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. E-mail: gd{at}neuro.au.dk

In vivo–applied sodium selenide or sodium selenite causes the appearance of zinc–selenium nanocrystals in places where free or loosely bound zinc ions are present. These nanocrystals can in turn be silver enhanced by autometallographic (AMG) development. The selenium method was introduced in 1982 as a tool for zinc-ion tracing, e.g., in vesicular compartments such as synaptic vesicles of zinc-enriched (ZEN) terminals in the central nervous system, and for visualization of zinc ions in ZEN secretory vesicles of, e.g., somatotrophic cells in the pituitary, zymogene granules in pancreatic acinar cells, beta-cells of the islets of Langerhans, Paneth cells of the crypts of Lieberkühn, secretory cells of the tubuloacinar glands of prostate, epithelium of parts of ductus epididymidis, and osteoblasts. If sodium selenide/selenite is injected into brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves containing sympathetic axons, or intraperitoneally, retrograde axonal transport of zinc–selenium nanocrystals takes place in ZEN neurons, resulting in accumulation of zinc–selenium nanocrystals in lysosomes of the neuronal somata. The technique is, therefore, also a highly specific tool for tracing ZEN pathways. The present review includes an update of the 1982 paper and presents evidence that only zinc ions are traced with the AMG selenium techniques if the protocols are followed to the letter. (J Histochem Cytochem 53:141–153, 2005)

Key Words: selenium • autometallography • AMG • nanocrystals • zinc ions • vesicles • zinc-enriched • ZEN


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