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BIOMARKERS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 480-484Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13547500600742169
Keywords
chemiluminescence; concanavalin A (Con A); human mammary tissues; histochemistry
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Cell differentiation/dedifferentiation includes changes in oligosaccharide composition and distribution in the cell surface glycoconjugates. Lectins have been used as auxiliary tools in histopathological diagnosis of mammary, uterus and brain pathologies. Acridinium ester (AE) conjugated to biomolecules has been employed in chemiluminescent analytical applications. This work aimed to use a lectin, concanavalin A (Con A), conjugated to AE as a chemiluminescent histochemistry tool. Biopsies of normal and infiltrating duct carcinoma (IDC) of mammary tissues were treated by a Con A-AE derivative. Photon emission, observed during the breakage of the chemical bound between Con A and AE, was quantified, expressed in relative light units (RLU) and correlated to the labelling of the normal and transformed tissues. The results demonstrated that RLU presented a linear relationship with the labelled tissue area in the range 0.125-1.0 cm(2) (r = 0.98). Furthermore, RLU was much higher for the IDC (1283.920 x 10(3) +/- 220.621 10(3)) than the normal tissue (2.565 x 10(3) +/- 0.247 x 10(3)), namely, about 500 times higher. The Con A-AE conjugation efficiency, differential staining of normal and IDC tissues, and quantification of results contribute to a decrease in the subjectivity in routine histopathological diagnoses and indicate that acrydinum ester can join other lectin marker to be used in histochemistry.
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