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Evaluation of the utility of air-dried whole mounts for quantitative electron microprobe studies of platelet dense bodies

JL Costa, Y Tanaka, K Pettigrew and RJ Cushing

A variety of electronmicroscope techniques have been used to examine how the air-drying process may affect the dense bodies in whole mounts of platelets. (a) Selected-area-diffraction and electron microprobe studies suggest that the air-drying process can result in the formation of crystalline precipitates of sodium chloride on grid films and platelets. However, no crystals were detected in the calcium-and- phosphorus-containing matrix of dense bodies. (b) Tilting studies show that dense bodies in human platelets are spherical or ellipsoidal in shape. Dense bodies in rabbit platelets, in contrast, appear flattened in a horizontal plane. (c) Human-platelet dense bodies probed with a small (20 nm diameter) spot vary widely in their peak/background ratios for calcium and phosphorus-a finding that suggests that the two elements may not be evenly distributed throughout the dense-body matrix. Nevertheless, when dense bodies are probed with a larger (200 nm diameter) spot, they do not appear to differ appreciably among themselves in their calcium or phosphorus content. The data suggest that with human platelets, air drying may be a preparative procedure which permits comparison by microprobe techniques of dense-body matrix content in platelet populations.

Volume 25, Issue 9, pp. 1079-1086, 09/01/1977
Copyright © 1977 by The Histochemical Society


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