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Ultrastructural non-radioactive in situ hybridization of GH mRNA in rat pituitary gland: pre-embedding vs ultra-thin frozen sections vs post-embedding.

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In situ hybridization at the ultrastructural level can be carried out using three different methods: on vibratome sections before embedding in epoxy resin, on ultra-thin frozen sections, or on ultra-thin sections of tissues embedded in hydrophilic resin such as Lowicryl. With the purpose of comparing the sensitivity, resolution, and ultrastructural preservation of these three methods, we examined the expression of the growth hormone (GH) gene in anterior pituitary cells by in situ hybridization at the ultrastructural level, using a synthetic oligonucleotide complementary to the codons of the mRNA from Gln 45 to Ser 54 labeled at the 3' end of biotin-21dUTP. All these methods gave similar results: mRNA was located on the lamellar endoplasmic reticulum of somatotrophs. The pre-embedding method gave the best ultrastructural preservation, with low resolution with the enzymatic detection system and an intermediate sensitivity. A probe concentration of 10 pmol/ml was sufficient to obtain a signal. With this method gold particles could not be used without pre-treatment. The frozen section method gave the best sensitivity (a signal was observed with 4 pmol/ml of probe) but the lowest ultrastructural preservation. On ultra-thin Lowicryl sections, resolution was as high as with the frozen-section method, ultrastructural conservation was intermediate, and sensitivity was low. These results indicate that the last method seems to be a good compromise between sensitivity and ultrastructural preservation.In situ hybridization at the ultrastructural level can be carried out using three different methods: on vibratome sections before embedding in epoxy resin, on ultra-thin frozen sections, or on ultra-thin sections of tissues embedded in hydrophilic resin such as Lowicryl. With the purpose of comparing the sensitivity, resolution, and ultrastructural preservation of these three methods, we examined the expression of the growth hormone (GH) gene in anterior pituitary cells by in situ hybridization at the ultrastructural level, using a synthetic oligonucleotide complementary to the codons of the mRNA from Gln 45 to Ser 54 labeled at the 3' end of biotin-21dUTP. All these methods gave similar results: mRNA was located on the lamellar endoplasmic reticulum of somatotrophs. The pre-embedding method gave the best ultrastructural preservation, with low resolution with the enzymatic detection system and an intermediate sensitivity. A probe concentration of 10 pmol/ml was sufficient to obtain a signal. With this method gold particles could not be used without pre-treatment. The frozen section method gave the best sensitivity (a signal was observed with 4 pmol/ml of probe) but the lowest ultrastructural preservation. On ultra-thin Lowicryl sections, resolution was as high as with the frozen-section method, ultrastructural conservation was intermediate, and sensitivity was low. These results indicate that the last method seems to be a good compromise between sensitivity and ultrastructural preservation.
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D. Leguellec, A. Trembleau, Christine Péchoux, F. Gossard, G. Morel. Ultrastructural non-radioactive in situ hybridization of GH mRNA in rat pituitary gland: pre-embedding vs ultra-thin frozen sections vs post-embedding.. J Histochem Cytochem, 1992, 40, pp.979-986. ⟨hal-00314239⟩
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