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Localization of rat tryptase to a subset of the connective tissue type of mast cell
Z Chen, AA Irani, TR Bradford, SS Craig, G Newlands, H Miller, T Huff, WH Simmons and LB Schwartz
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
We examined the cellular distribution of rat tryptase in rat skin, lung, small intestine, and peritoneal lavage cells by immunohistochemical techniques. Tryptase purified to apparent homogeneity from rat skin was used to generate a goat polyclonal anti- rat tryptase antibody. Tryptase-containing cells were detected in lung, skin, and peritoneal lavage cells. Small intestine mucosa, on the other hand, showed few if any tryptase-positive cells. Sequential staining with Alcian blue and anti-tryptase antibody showed that tryptase is located only in mast cells. Sequential staining with safranin to identify the connective tissue type of mast cell and anti-tryptase antibody showed that tryptase resides only in this mast cell type. However, only a subpopulation of the safranin-stained mast cells contained tryptase. In lung, 53% of the mast cells stained with safranin; 94% contained tryptase. In skin, 80% stained with safranin; only 6% contained tryptase. In peritoneal cells, more than 95% of the mast cells were stained with safranin; 20% contained tryptase. In the bowel mucosa, where few cells are stained by safranin, no cells with tryptase were detected. The percentages of cells with chymase I that also contained tryptase were 80% and 84% for lung, 4% and 7% for skin, and 15% and 13% for peritoneal cells by respective simultaneous and sequential double labeling with anti-tryptase and anti-chymase I antibodies. This study suggests that the rat connective tissue type of mast cell is subdivided into two forms on the basis of the presence or absence of tryptase, whereas rat mucosal mast cells lack this enzyme. These results contrast with those in humans, in which tryptase is present in all mast cells, but are similar to mice, in which tryptase mRNA has been detected only in the connective tissue type.
Volume 41,
Issue 7,
pp. 961-969,
07/01/1993
Copyright © 1993 by The Histochemical Society
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