Immunohistochemical detection of meconium in the fetal lung: report of autopsied cases.
Immunohistochemical detection of meconium in the fetal lung: report of autopsied cases.
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胎肺胎便的免疫组织化学检测:尸检病例报告。
DOI:
10.1007/s00404-013-2862-4
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2013
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Kanayama N et al.
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Furuta N;Kanayama N et al.
Meconium is a bile-stained material present in the small bowel of fetuses long before mid-gestation, which moves in the intestinal lumen with contractions of the intestinal wall [1]. Although meconium aspiration syndrome could deteriorate neonatal mortality and morbidity, the pathophysiological involvement of meconium is still contentious [2], because autopsy studies suggested prenatal origins of intrauterine infection and/or chronic hypoxia [2–4]. The lack of universal diagnostic criteria for meconium staining is one of the reasons for the confusion. We previously reported the specific presence of zinc coproporphyrin I (ZnCP-I) in human meconium [5], recently developed a specific monoclonal antibody for ZnCP-I [6], and successfully applied it to the immunostaining of meconium in the human placenta, fetal membrane, and umbilical cord [6].In the present study, we applied the antibody for ZnCP-1 to immunohistochemical examination of the autopsied lung following one early neonatal death and eight intrauterine fetal deaths between 28 and 38 weeks of gestation at Hamamatsu University Hospital between 1996 and 2003. Paraffin blocks, after fixation in 10% formaldehyde, were cut into 3 μm sections. After the application of a mouse monoclonal anti-ZnCP-I antibody (120 ng/ml) or anti-CD 68 antibody (fourfold dilution from initial liquid; Dako Japan, Tokyo, Japan) to the sections (1 h, room temperature), detection was performed with a polymer detection kit (ChemMate EnVisionTM; Dako Japan, Tokyo, Japan),