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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
卷 78, 期 8, 页码 723-730出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22530
关键词
polarized microscopy; multiphoton microscopy; connective tissue; histological staining; collagen; Mueller polarimetry
资金
- INCa (French Institute of Cancer) via the PAIR-Gyneco project
Polarized microscopy provides unique information on anisotropic samples. In its most complete implementation, namely Mueller microscopy, this technique is well suited for the visualization of fibrillar proteins orientations, with collagen in the first place. However, the intrinsic optical anisotropy of unstained tissues has to be enhanced by Picrosirius Red (PR) staining to enable Mueller measurements. In this work, we compared the orientation mapping provided by Mueller and second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopies on PR stained samples of vaginal and uterine cervix tissues. SHG is a multiphoton technique that is highly specific to fibrillar collagen, and was taken as the gold standard for its visualization. We showed that Mueller microscopy can be safely used to determine collagen orientation in PR stained cervical tissue. In contrast, in vaginal samples, Mueller microscopy revealed orientations not only of collagen but also of other anisotropic structures. Thus PR is not fully specific to collagen, which necessitates comparison to SHG microscopy in every type of tissue. In addition to this study of PR specificity, we determined the optimal values of the staining parameters. We found that staining times of 5min, and sample thicknesses of 5 mu m were sufficient in cervical and vaginal tissues. Microsc. Res. Tech. 78:723-730, 2015. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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