IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL DETECTION OF DNA REPLICATING CELLS IN THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM: USE OF BROMODEOXYURIDINE AND ITS MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TO RAT FETUSES
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL DETECTION OF DNA REPLICATING CELLS IN THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM: USE OF BROMODEOXYURIDINE AND ITS MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TO RAT FETUSES
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发育中神经系统DNA复制细胞的免疫组织化学检测:溴脱氧尿嘧啶及其大鼠胎儿单克隆抗体的应用
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1987
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F. Ikuta
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Y. Yoshida;M. Yamada;K. Wakabayashi;F. Ikuta
The effects of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), an analogue of thymidine, on the DNA synthesizing cells of the rat fetal brain were examined at the stage of neuroblast formation. BrdU in the cell nuclei was clearly detected by avidin-biotin complex peroxidase method using an anti-BrdU monoclonal antibody in paraformaldehydefixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections 27 min after the intravenous administration ofBrdU. The sufficient dose ofBrdU required for immunohistochemistry was 20 mg/kg of body weight. By this method, the elevator movement of matrix cell nuclei and the migration profiles of the neuroblasts in the migrating zone and cortical plate were demonstrated. The labeling indices of the matrix cells in the cerebral neopallium during the neuroblast formation gave essentially equal or even higher values than those previously reported by tritiated thymidine autoradiography. BrdU incorporated at the embryonic stage was also detectable in 3-month-old rats. Rats that received 20-60 mg/kg BrdU on the embryonic day 16 revealed no significant abnormalities in behaviors and morphology. The results suggest that the BrdU immunohistochemical method is a useful tool in cell kinetic studies of the developing nervous system in vivo. Since the establishment of immunohistochemical detection method of DNA synthesizing cells using a monoclonal antibody to bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), an analogue of thymidine, by Gratzner (9) in 1982, several analytic studies on cell kinetics of neoplastic cells in vitro or in various tissues of humans and experimental animals in adulthood have been reported (20, 22, 23). This method is of greater advantage than thymidine autoradiography in visualizing the DNA-synthesizing cells in viva. The method is much less timeconsuming, does not require precaution in working with radioisotopes (ll, 25), and its reaction products are visualized clearly "at a high resolution (37). Although this method seems very useful in diverse fields of cell kinetic study in developing animals, little information is available concerning the immunohistochemical applicability of BrdU to animals during the fetal development. Before 1982, it has been pointed out that BrdU incorporated into the nuclear DNA causes cytotoxicity in cells in vitr0i(16), or teratogenicity in embryos (27-29). These works attempted to evaluate the halogenated nucleoside, BrdU, as a teratogen to mammalian embryos (5, 28,34) and to estimate it as a radiosensitizing chemical in X-ray irradiation to neoplastic tissues (18, 30, 36). Accordingly, i i } i