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Investigating the influence of standard staining procedures on the copper distribution and concentration in Wilson's disease liver samples by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
J. Trace Elem. Med. Biol. 44, 71-75 (2017)
The influence of rhodanine and haematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining on the copper distribution and concentration in liver needle biopsy samples originating from patients with Wilson's disease (WD), a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder of the copper metabolism, is investigated. In contemporary diagnostic of WD, rhodanine staining is used for histopathology, since rhodanine and copper are forming a red to orange-red complex, which can be recognized in the liver tissue using a microscope. In this paper, a laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) method is applied for the analysis of eight different WD liver samples. Apart from a spatially resolved elemental detection as qualitative information, this LA-ICP-MS method offers also quantitative information by external calibration with matrix-matched gelatine standards. The sample set of this work included an unstained and a rhodanine stained section of each WD liver sample. While unstained sections of WD liver samples showed very distinct structures of the copper distribution with high copper concentrations, rhodanine stained sections revealed a blurred copper distribution with significant decreased concentrations in a range from 20 to more than 90%. This implies a copper removal from the liver tissue by complexation during the rhodanine staining. In contrast to this, a further HE stained sample of one WD liver sample did not show a significant decrease in the copper concentration and influence on the copper distribution in comparison to the unstained section. Therefore, HE staining can be combined with the analysis by means of LA-ICP-MS in two successive steps from one thin section of a biopsy specimen. This allows further information to be gained on the elemental distribution by LA-ICP-MS additional to results obtained by histological staining.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Copper ; Elemental Bioimaging ; Haematoxylin And Eosin Staining ; Laser Ablation-inductively Coupled Plasma-mass Spectrometry (la-icp-ms) ; Rhodanine Staining ; Wilson's Disease; Diagnosis; Tissue
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0946-672X
e-ISSN
1878-3252
Quellenangaben
Volume: 44,
Pages: 71-75
Publisher
Urban & Fischer
Publishing Place
Jena
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Research Unit Analytical Pathology (AAP)