Mitochondria in tissue culture
Mitochondria in tissue culture
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DOI:
10.1126/science.39.1000.330
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发表时间:
1914-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
Lewis, WH
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作者:
Lewis, MR;Lewis, WH
Janus green in strengths of. 00001 and. 000005 of 1 per cent. stains the mitochondria in the living cells a brilliant blue green. The color fades, however, in from 15 minutes to 3 hours, and we have been unable to restain. The janus green is also slightly toxic and kills the cells in a few hours. We are indebted to Dr. E. V. Cowdry for this particular janus green (di ethyl saffranin azo di methyl aniline) which was obtained by him from Dr. Bensley of Chicago. Attempts to stain with another make were unsuccessful. Nilblew B. extra, for which we are indebted to Dr. Herbert Evans, was used in very dilute solution of. 000005 to. 0000025 of 1 per cent. for the detection of lipoids in con-nection with the mitochondria. It stains the lipoids pink, but is unfortunately somewhat toxic and, like the janus green, kills the cells in a few hours.The preparations are fixed by placing the coverslip in a chamber of osmic acid vapor from two to five minutes and since the growth is very thin, the fixation is almost instantane-ous and the mitochondria remainspractically the same as in the living cells. The blackening caused by the osmic is bleached during the hardening processes by means of a few drops of hydrogen peroxide in the 70 per cent. alcohol and the preparations are then stained with Heidenhain's iron hematoxylin. Since in places the cells are flattened out on the under surface of the coverslip into a single layer much thinner than the usual thickness of a single cell, one can study the entire living cell and its contents with a minimal amount of focusing. Also at any moment during the observations the culture can be fixed and later the same cells studied in a stained prep-aration.