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Péchoux C, Antigny F, Perros F. A correlated light and electron microscopy approach to study the subcellular localization of phosphorylated vimentin in human lung tissue. Methods Cell Biol 2024; 187:117-137. [PMID: 38705622 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.02.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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Correlative microscopy is an important approach for bridging the resolution gap between fluorescence light and electron microscopy. Here, we describe a fast and simple method for correlative immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling on the same section to elucidate the localization of phosphorylated vimentin (P-Vim), a robust feature of pulmonary vascular remodeling in cells of human lung small arteries. The lung is a complex, soft and difficult tissue to prepare for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Detailing the molecular composition of small pulmonary arteries (<500μm) would be of great significance for research and diagnostics. Using the classical methods of immunochemistry (either hydrophilic resin or thin cryosections), is difficult to locate small arteries for analysis by TEM. To address this problem and to observe the same structures by both light and electron microscopy, correlative microscopy is a reliable approach. Immunofluorescence enables us to know the distribution of P-Vim in cells but does not provide ultrastructural detail on its localization. Labeled structures selected by fluorescence microscope can be identified and further analyzed by TEM at high resolution. With our method, the morphology of the arteries is well preserved, enabling the localization of P-Vim inside pulmonary endothelial cells. By applying this approach, fluorescent signals can be directly correlated to the corresponding subcellular structures in areas of interest.
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- Christine Péchoux
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroparisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas, France; MIMA2 Imaging Core Facility, Microscopie et Imagerie des Microorganismes, Animaux et Aliments, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France; INSERM UMR_S 999 "Hypertension Pulmonaire: Physiopathologie et Innovation Thérapeutique," Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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- Laboratoire CarMeN, UMR INSERM U1060/INRA U1397, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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Libard S, Hodik M, Cesarini KG, Dragomir A, Alafuzoff I. The Compartmentalization of Amyloid-β in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Brain Biopsies. J Alzheimers Dis 2024; 99:729-737. [PMID: 38669551 PMCID: PMC11191527 DOI: 10.3233/jad-240167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Background Amyloid-β (Aβ) is one of the hallmark lesions of Alzheimer's disease (AD). During the disease process, Aβ undergoes biochemical changes, producing toxic Aβ variants, proposed to be detected within the neurons. Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) causes cognitive impairment, gait, and urinary symptoms in elderly, that can be reversed by a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. Majority of iNPH subjects display different Aβ variants in their brain biopsies, obtained during shunting. Objective To study the cellular compartmentalization of different Aβ variants in brain biopsies from iNPH subjects. Methods We studied the cellular localization of different proteoforms of Aβ using antibodies towards different amino acid sequences or post-translational modifications of Aβ, including clones 4G8, 6F/3D, unmodified- (7H3D6), pyroglutamylated- (N3pE), phosphorylated-(1E4E11) Aβ and Aβ protein precursor (AβPP), in brain biopsies from 3 iNPH subjects, using immunohistochemistry and light microscopy (LM), light microscopy on semi-thin sections (LMst), and electron microscopy (EM). Results In LM all Aβ variants were detected. In LMst and EM, the Aβ 4G8, 6F/3D, and the pyroglutamylated Aβ were detected. The AβPP was visualized by all methods. The Aβ labelling was located extracellularly with no specific signal within the intracellular compartment, whereas the AβPP was seen both intra- and extracellularly. Conclusions The Aβ markers displayed extracellular localization when visualized by three assessment techniques, reflecting the pathological extracellular accumulation of Aβ in the human brain. No intracellular Aβ pathology was seen. AβPP was visualized in intra- and extracellularly, which corresponds to the localization of the protein in the membranes of cells and organelles.
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- Sylwia Libard
- Department of Pathology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- BioVis Platform, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Pathology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Pathology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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Howell DN, Herrera GA. Electron microscopy in renal pathology: overall applications and guidelines for tissue, collection, preparation, and stains. Ultrastruct Pathol 2020; 45:1-18. [PMID: 33320036 DOI: 10.1080/01913123.2020.1854407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Electron microscopy is a mainstay in the analysis of renal biopsies, where it is typically employed in a correlative fashion along with light and immunofluorescence microscopy. Despite the development of a growing armamentarium of molecular and biochemical analytic methods as well as new immunostains with a widening panel of immunoreactants, electron microscopy remains crucial to the diagnosis of a number of disorders involving the renal glomerulus, vasculature, and tubulointerstitial compartment. The number of renal biopsies continues to grow and the indications for these biopsies continue expanding together with our understanding of disease processes. Proper collection of biopsies and careful analysis of data emanating from diagnostic modalities, clinical information, imaging, gross and microscopic tissue analysis, including a wide range of ancillary studies, represent the essential paradigm for generating detailed diagnoses with clinical significance. This communication offers a guide to the pre-analytic and analytic process for renal biopsy examination, discusses diagnostic keys and pitfalls for an important category of renal diseases (immune complex disorders), and provides an introduction to a useful adjunct diagnostic method (ultrastructural immunolabeling). Renal pathologists should render expert diagnoses that guide patient management, provide prognostic information and lead to targeted new therapeutic interventions that are currently available.
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- David N Howell
- Department of Pathology, Duke University and Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, Durham, NC, USA
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Shibata S, Murota Y, Nishimoto Y, Yoshimura M, Nagai T, Okano H, Siomi MC. Immuno-Electron Microscopy and Electron Microscopic In Situ Hybridization for Visualizing piRNA Biogenesis Bodies in Drosophila Ovaries. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1328:163-78. [PMID: 26324437 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2851-4_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Immuno-electron microscopy and electron microscopic in situ hybridization are powerful tools to identify the precise subcellular localization of specific proteins and RNAs at the ultramicroscopic level. Here we describe detailed procedures for how to detect the precise location of a specific target labeled with both fluorescence and gold particles. Although they have been developed for the analysis of Drosophila ovarian somatic cells, these techniques are suitable for a wide range of biological applications including human, primate, and rodent analysis.
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- Shinsuke Shibata
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan,
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Gunning WT, Calomeni EP. A Brief Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Applications in Pathology. J Histotechnol 2013. [DOI: 10.1179/his.2000.23.3.237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Liu Y, Wu H, Wu J, Wang S, Liu Y, Zhao Z, Zhang X, Li R, Guo M, Zhang Z. Detection of UCH-L1 Expression by Pre-embedding Immunoelectron Microscopy with Colloidal Gold Labeling in Diseased Glomeruli. Ultrastruct Pathol 2009; 32:5-9. [DOI: 10.1080/01913120701829285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Canron MH, Bouillot S, Favereaux A, Petry KG, Vital A. Ultrastructural identification of peripheral myelin proteins by a pre-embedding immunogold labeling method. J Peripher Nerv Syst 2003; 8:1-7. [PMID: 12678547 DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2003.03001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ultrastructural immunolabeling of peripheral nervous system components is an important tool to study the relation between structure and function. Owing to the scarcity of certain antigens and the dense structure of the peripheral nerve, a pre-embedding technique is likely appropriate. After several investigations on procedures for pre-embedding immunolabeling, we propose a method that offers a good compromise between detection of antigenic sites and preservation of morphology at the ultrastructural level, and that is easy to use and suitable for investigations on peripheral nerve biopsies from humans. Pre-fixation by immersion in paraformaldehyde/glutaraldehyde is necessary to stabilize the ultrastructure. Then, ultrasmall gold particles with silver enhancement are advised. Antibodies against myelin protein zero and myelin basic protein were chosen for demonstration. The same technique was applied to localize a 35 kDa myelin protein.
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- Marie-Hélène Canron
- Neuropathology Department, and Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Affections de la Myéline, Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
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Herrera GA, Lowery MC, Turbat-Herrera EA. Immunoelectron microscopy in the age of molecular pathology. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2000; 8:87-97. [PMID: 10937055 DOI: 10.1097/00129039-200006000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The introduction of molecular biology-based diagnostic procedures in pathology has created substantial expectations in regard to screening, characterization, monitoring, and detection of predisposition to a variety of diseases, most notably malignant neoplasms. It should be emphasized, however, that molecular studies are only one component of the diagnostic process and that more traditional methods are still required in the evaluation of tumors and management of patients. The data obtained from the molecular biology-based studies must be always interpreted in conjunction with the clinical history, immunomorphologic findings, and other pertinent ancillary data. Routine evaluation of tissues using traditional light microscopy remains the backbone of pathologic evaluation. The additive role of molecular diagnostics often depends on how accurate the initial evaluation has been. Ancillary techniques such as immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy remain essential in properly characterizing diseased tissues and in speciation of tumors. Ultrastructural immunolabeling capitalizes on combining these two techniques and providing exquisite immunomorphologic evaluation. The extra time and effort required are more than compensated by the degree of sophistication that can be achieved when this diagnostic technique is utilized and the added expense is rather reasonable. The value of molecular biology-based diagnostics is potentially questionable if the tissue samples are not initially accurately characterized. The question that molecular diagnostics may be trying to answer may be the wrong one or the answer obtained may be interpreted incorrectly if the context of the clinicopathologic situation has not been clearly defined using traditional diagnostic techniques.
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- G A Herrera
- Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport 71130, USA.
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The power of electron microscopy as a diagnostic tool can be amplified considerably by the application of ancillary preparative and analytic methods. Subcellular chemistry and structure can be examined by various forms of microprobe analysis and by special staining methods, including cytochemical, immunocytochemical, and negative staining. Qualitative ultrastructural examination can be augmented by morphometric analysis. Correlative microscopic survey methods can be used as a means of targeting ultrastructural investigations. This article provides an overview of the use of these special techniques in the diagnosis and classification of tumors and other selected pathologic processes.
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- D N Howell
- Department of Pathology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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Adams D, Said G. Ultrastructural immunolabelling of amyloid fibrils in acquired and hereditary amyloid neuropathies. J Neurol 1996; 243:63-7. [PMID: 8869389 DOI: 10.1007/bf00878533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Both acquired and familial amyloid neuropathies carry a poor prognosis. In addition, amyloid is sometimes difficult to visualise in nerve biopsy specimens, and the pathogenesis of nerve lesions is still a matter of controversy. In order to learn more on the subject, we studied nerve specimens from seven patients with proven amyloid neuropathy by ultrastructural immunocytochemistry in order to better understand their pathogeny and to evaluate the reliability of the method for detection of amyloid antigens in the endoneurium. An indirect immunolabelling technique using protein A-gold complex (pA-g) was applied. Polyclonal antisera against human IgG, IgM, lambda and kappa light chains and prealbumin were assayed. Amyloid fibrils were labelled in six of seven cases: in four cases with anti-transthyretin (TTR) antibodies and in two with anti-lambda light chain antibodies. The type of immunolabelling correlated with the biochemical type of the amyloidosis as defined by TTR gene analysis and serum immunoelectrophoresis. The amyloid fibrils and gold labelling were always located in the endoneurial space. No intracellular deposit or labelling was found. The immunolabelling was highly specific, gold particles being detected only near to amyloid fibrils with no background gold labelling. Ultrastructural immunolabelling with pA-g could be used for detection of amyloid in progressive axonal neuropathy of unknown origin, with important therapeutic implications.
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- D Adams
- Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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Delaigue O, Arbeille B, Rossazza C, Lemesle M, Roingeard P. Quantitative analysis of immunogold labellings of collagen types I, III, IV and VI in healthy and pathological human corneas. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1995; 233:331-8. [PMID: 7672619 DOI: 10.1007/bf00200481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND We studied the distribution of collagen types I, III, IV and VI in one healthy human cornea and in seven pathological human corneas, in which the disorders were three cases of pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (two severe, one moderate) and one case each of stage IV keratoconus, chronic ulcer, vascularized cornea and disciform keratitis. METHODS Transmission electron microscopy examinations were performed on post-embedding immunogold-labelled sections. The staining was evaluated by gold particle count in the different tissues. The presence or absence of a given antigen was determined by statistical analysis, using a d-value test. RESULTS Our results on healthy corneal tissues corroborate the data available from previous studies, except for collagen type VI, which we found to be absent in Bowman's layer. In pathological corneas with a collagenous layer posterior to Descemet's membrane, collagen types I, III and especially IV were detected in this collagenous layer. Collagen types I, III and VI were detected in the anterior healed stroma of other pathological corneas, except for the keratoconus cornea, in which intense collagen III staining was observed. CONCLUSION The presence of collagen types I and III in the posterior collagenous layer of our pseudophakic bullous keratopathy corneas suggests that this layer corresponds to scar tissue secreted by stimulated endothelial cells.
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- O Delaigue
- Laboratoire de Microscopie électronique, Faculté de Médecine de TOURS, France
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Eppell SJ, Simmons SR, Albrecht RM, Marchant RE. Cell-surface receptors and proteins on platelet membranes imaged by scanning force microscopy using immunogold contrast enhancement. Biophys J 1995; 68:671-80. [PMID: 7696518 PMCID: PMC1281731 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(95)80228-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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High resolution scanning force microscope (SFM) images of fibrinogen-exposed platelet membranes are presented. Using ultrasharp carbon tips, we are able to obtain submolecular scale resolution of membrane surface features. Corroboration of SFM results is achieved using low voltage, high resolution scanning electron microscopy (LVHRSEM) to image the same protein molecule that is seen in the SFM. We obtain accurate height dimensions by SFM complemented by accurate lateral dimensions obtained by LVHRSEM. The use of 14- and 5-nm gold labels to identify specific membrane-bound biomolecules and to provide contrast enhancement with the SFM is explored as a useful adjunct to observation of unlabeled material. It is shown that the labels are useful for locating specific protein molecules on platelet membrane surfaces and for assessing the distribution of these molecules using the SFM. Fourteen nm labels are shown to be visible over the membrane corrugation, whereas 5-nm labels appear difficult to resolve using the present SFM instrumental configuration. When using the 5-nm labels, collateral use of LVHRSEM allows one to examine SFM images at submolecular resolution and associate function with the structures imaged after the SFM experiment is completed.
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- S J Eppell
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7207
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Heinzmann U, Höfler H. Detection of epidermal growth factor receptor by scanning electron microscopy. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1994; 101:127-34. [PMID: 8071085 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A method of immunocytochemistry and low-voltage scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is described for visualization of the epidermal growth factor membrane receptor (EGFR). The specific labelling is achieved of antigenic sites on the surface of prefixed cells. The advantage of this approach over existing techniques is the capability for unlimited high-resolution surface examination at the single cell level. This is achieved by using low acceleration voltage (V0) and either very thin or no coating of the specimens to prevent the label from being masked. Furthermore, by using conventional field emission SEM and a highly sensitive detector for backscattered electrons, detection of the gold-conjugate (< 10 nm in diameter) becomes possible even at low V0. A431 cells (human epidermoid carcinoma) show intercellular variability in their EGFR area density. Highest density was recorded upon cells in the mitotic stage of the cell cycle due to a decrease in the relative surface of rounded versus flattened cells. At the ultrastructural level a marked heterogeneity was also seen on the surface of contracted cells, where enhanced labelling could be observed only at the tips of microvilli. In contrast, spread cells displayed a homogeneous receptor distribution due to their smooth surface.
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- U Heinzmann
- GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, GmbH, Institut für Pathologie, Postfach, Germany
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For the sake of discussion, the markedly diversified tumors of the endocrine/neuroendocrine system are classified as those originating in classic epithelial endocrine organs (eg, adrenal cortical adenomas), from the diffuse endocrine cells (eg, jejunal carcinoid tumors), or from clusters of these cells (eg, islet cell tumors); and those arising from neurosecretory neurons (eg, neuroblastoma) or paraganglia (eg, carotid body tumor). Although traditional transmission electron microscopy is useful for identifying neurosecretory or endosecretory granules as such, with few exceptions (eg, insulin-containing granules with a complex paracrystalline core) it is not possible to ascribe a granule type (size, shape, or ultrastructure) to a distinct nosologic entity or secretory product because of their overlapping fine structures in different cell types. Immunoelectron microscopy methods utilizing colloidal gold-labeled secondary antibodies can be used to localize virtually any antigen (peptide or neuroamine) to a specific neurosecretory or endosecretory granule or other cell structure. General endocrine/neuroendocrine cell markers such as neuron-specific enolase, the chromogranins, and synaptophysin are useful in identifying neuroendocrine differentiation in a neoplasm using routine immunohistochemical procedures. The current relevance of the APUD concept of Pearse as well as the biologic importance of endocrine/neuroendocrine secretory products such as bombesin and insulinlike growth factors also are discussed.
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- R A Erlandson
- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021
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