Quantitative histochemical determination of Na+ and K+ in microscopic samples using carbon furnace atomic absorption spectrometryIP Sussman, LC MacGregor, BR Masters and FM Matschinsky University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Philadelphia 19104. Carbon furnace atomic absorption spectrometry was used to measure the Na and K content of freeze-dried microscopic tissue samples. This method was sufficiently sensitive to measure pmol amounts of Na and K from tissue weighing 10-60 ng. Within the spatial resolution of the microdissection procedure, ion diffusion that might occur during cryosectioning, freeze-drying, and dissection of the tissue did not seem to be a problem. Data obtained with this methodology were in agreement with previously reported values of the Na and K content of various tissues, thus supporting the usefulness of this quantitative histochemical technique.
Volume 36,
Issue 3,
pp. 237-244,
03/01/1988
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