Quantitative histochemical study of acid phosphatase activity in rat liver using a semipermeable membrane technique.
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- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
- Vol. 35 (2), 175-180
- https://doi.org/10.1177/35.2.3794312
Abstract
Acid phosphatase activity has been demonstrated in rat liver with the semipermeable membrane technique using naphthol AS-BI phosphate as substrate and hexazotized pararosaniline (HPRA) as simultaneous coupling agent. With this method the final reaction product (FRP) appeared in rat liver as intensely colored red granules in liver parenchymal cells and in Küpffer cells. The absorbance spectrum of the FRP peaks between 510 and 550 nm. A nonspecific reaction product, as has been found in skeletal muscle, did not occur in rat liver. A substrate concentration of 5 mM and a HPRA concentration of 10 mM result in optimum localization and activity. We concluded from the results with different enzyme inhibitors that lysosomal acid phosphatase was demonstrated. The mean absorbance of the FRP increased linearly with incubation time (15-60 min). Furthermore, we found a linear increase of the FRP with increasing section thickness (4-10 micron). When the simultaneous coupling method was replaced by a post-coupling technique, the colored reaction product was diffusely located throughout the cytoplasm. In conclusion, the simultaneous coupling technique in combination with the semipermeable membrane method is a valuable tool for detecting and quantifying lysosomal acid phosphatase activity in rat liver. We demonstrated that acid phosphatase activity is 1.2 times higher periportally than pericentrally in rat liver, and that 24 hr fasting before the experiments did not change the acid phosphatase activity.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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