COMBINED USE OF MICROINCINERATION + PRUSSIAN BLUE REACTION FOR MORE SENSITIVE HISTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF IRON
COMBINED USE OF MICROINCINERATION + PRUSSIAN BLUE REACTION FOR MORE SENSITIVE HISTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF IRON
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DOI:
10.1177/12.3.153
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发表时间:
1964-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
ZIMMERMAN, LE
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作者:
FENTON, RH;JOHNSON, FB;ZIMMERMAN, LE
A glass slide supporting an uncovered, unstained paraffin section of a tissue is placed on a sheet of asbestos and cautiously heated, using the oxidizing cone from the flame of a Fisher or Meker burner. When the specimen has been completely incinerated it is covered with a metal pan and allowed to cool gradually. The ash may be examined directly in darkfield illumination for iron oxide. If the incinerated specimen is first dipped into a celloidin solution, air dried, passed rapidly through 95% ethyl alcohol, and then placed in distilled water, it may be stained for iron by the usual Prussian blue reaction. This method not only reveals the presence of ferric iron in tissues but also indicates the presence of protein-bound, ordinarily nonstainable, iron. By use of this technique the presence of iron in tissues (particularly if present in small amounts) can be demonstrated when all other simple histochemical methods have failed.