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Preembedding colloidal gold immunostaining of hypothalamic neurons: light and electron microscopic localization of beta-endorphin- immunoreactive perikarya

R Lamberts and PC Goldsmith

A preembedding immunogold staining (IGS) procedure was developed to identify beta-endorphin/adrenocorticotropic hormone immunoreactive neurons at the light and electron microscopic levels. Colchicine- treated rats were perfused with Nakane's periodate-lysine- paraformaldehyde fixative. Vibratome sections were incubated in primary antisera followed by goat anti-rabbit immunoglobulin G coupled to 16 nm colloidal gold, and, in some cases, rabbit immunoglobulin G coupled to gold. The appearance to pink to light red perikarya, corresponding to colloidal gold deposition at antigenic sites, was monitored under the light microscope. Positive cell bodies in the arcuate region sometimes extended lateral to the nucleus. Only proximal portions of neuronal processes were stained. At the ultrastructural level, colloidal gold labeled the periphery of 90-110 nm dense neurosecretory granules in the perikaryal cytoplasm and a few proximal axons. Clusters of gold particles, appearing free in the neuroplasm, actually labeled secretory granules in adjacent thin sections. Granules associated with the Golgi apparatus were not stained. Colloidal gold labeling of mature beta- endorphin granules, but not progranules, in rat hypothalamic neurons was confirmed using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique. The results correlate well with data on the intracellular processing of pro- opiomelanocortin in pituitary cells and prepropressophysin in the paraventricular nucleus. These data demonstrate the first application of the preembedding colloidal gold staining method for the identification of intracellular antigens within the central nervous system. The IGS method provides a definitive marker for single or double labeling of nervous tissue at both the light and electron microscopic levels.

Volume 33, Issue 6, pp. 499-507, 06/01/1985
Copyright © 1985 by The Histochemical Society


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