Uranyl-Free Staining as a Suitable Contrasting Technique for Nuclear Structures at Transmission Electron Microscopy.

Methods Mol Biol

Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Published: September 2022


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Uranyl acetate solution has widely been used as staining reagent for samples processed for ultrastructural morphology, cytochemistry, and immunocytochemistry. Although uranyl acetate guarantees high performance as a staining reagent, the radioactive uranyl salts make its use and purchase severely restricted. In this view, we used a non-radioactive lanthanide mix solution as contrasting dye for both nucleoplasmic and nucleolar ribonucleoprotein-containing components. This method guarantees a good contrast without masking the probe-antigen immunoreaction, thus proving to be a suitable tool for high-resolution studies of both cyto- and immunocytochemistry on acrylic resin-embedded samples.

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