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A new fluorescence method for alkaline phosphatase histochemistry

GI Murray and SW Ewen

Department of Pathology, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

We have developed a new fluorescence method for the histochemical localization of alkaline phosphatase activity. Calcium phosphate deposited at the sites of alkaline phosphatase activity in a Gomori- type reaction are identified by calcium binding fluorochromes. The calcium binding fluorochromes calcein, calcein blue, and xylenol orange were investigated, with each fluorochrome being included in the alkaline phosphatase incubating medium and used in a single-step procedure. Alkaline phosphatase activity was studied in freeze- substituted, resin-embedded human liver and jejunal biopsies, and each fluorochrome produced intense fluorescence of different colors at sites of alkaline phosphatase activity. Calcein, calcein blue, and xylenol orange produced green, blue, and red fluorescence, respectively. Sites of enzyme activity were accurately localized without evidence of diffusion, and there was an absence of non-enzyme-catalyzed binding of any of the fluorochromes to tissue. This fluorescence method, which is particularly suited to investigating the localization and distribution of the activity of different enzymes in the same section, was used to investigate the distribution and co-localization of alkaline phosphatase and aminopeptidase M in human liver and jejunum.

Volume 40, Issue 12, pp. 1971-1974, 12/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society


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