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ArticleEuropean journal of histochemistry : EJH2018

From fix to fit into the autoptic human brains.

Beatrice Paradiso, Michele Simonato, Gaetano Thiene, Anna Lavezzi

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Article in European journal of histochemistry : EJH, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Beatrice ParadisoUniversity of Milan, "Lino Rossi" Research Center for the study and prevention of unexpected perinatal death and SIDS Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences; Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua; Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Pharmacology and National Institute of Neuroscience, University of Ferrara. beatrice.paradiso@unipd.it.
Michele Simonato
Gaetano Thiene
Anna Lavezzi
University of Padua · ITUniversity of Milan · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formalin-fixed, paraffinembedded (FFPE) human brain tissues are very often stored in formalin for long time. Formalin fixation reduces immunostaining, and the DNA/RNA extraction from FFPE brain tissue becomes suboptimal. At present, there are different protocols of fixation and several procedures and kits to extract DNA/RNA from paraffin embedding tissue, but a gold standard protocol remains distant. In this study, we analyzed four types of fixation systems and compared histo and immuno-staining. Based on our results, we propose a modified method of combined fixation in formalin and formic acid for the autoptic adult brain to obtain easy, fast, safe and efficient immunolabelling of long-stored FFPE tissue. In particular, we have achieved an improved preservation of cellular morphology and obtained success in postmortem immunostaining for NeuN. This nuclear antigen is an important marker for mapping neurons, for example, to evaluate the histopathology of temporal lobe epilepsy or to draw the topography of cardiorespiratory brainstem nuclei in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However, NeuN staining is frequently faint or lost in postmortem human brain tissues. In addition, we attained Fluoro Jade C staining, a marker of neurodegeneration, and immunofluorescent staining for stem cell antigens in the postnatal human brain, utilizing custom fit fixation procedures.

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BrainDNAFormaldehydeHumansParaffin EmbeddingRNAStaining and LabelingTissue FixationDNAFormaldehydeRNA

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PMID30173504
PMCPMC6151333
OpenAlexW2889075456

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