The histochemical specificity of high iron diamine-alcian blue.

The Histochemical Journal
P E ReidC M Park

Abstract

The specificity of the High Iron Diamine-Alcian Blue pH 2.5 (HID-AB 2.5) procedure was examined in tissue sites containing sialogycoproteins alone or differing proportions of sialo- and sulphosialoglycoproteins. Studies with HID in differing final concentrations of hydrochloric acid or sodium chloride confirmed that staining is dependent upon both the pH and the ionic strength of the dye bath and demonstrated a marked heterogeneity in the pKa of the anionic groups of sialosulphoglycoproteins. Use of the sequence High Iron Diamine-Alcian Blue pH 1.0 demonstrated that complete or almost complete staining of O-sulphate esters occurred when HID was prepared in water (final pH 1.3). However, under these conditions HID-AB 2.5 was shown to be non-specific because only black HID staining was observed in sites containing large quantities of sialic acids. This non-specificity was due either to the masking of Alcian Blue staining by HID and/or the black HID staining of anionic groups other than sulphate. These results may account for some of the conflicting data obtained by different groups of investigators who have studied 'transitional mucosa' in human colonic diseases. Caution should be used in drawing conclusions from the use of HID-A...Continue Reading

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