Article ; Online: Effects of short and long-term alcohol-based fixation on Sprague-Dawley rat tissue morphology, protein and nucleic acid preservation.
2019 Volume 121, Issue 6, Page(s) 750–760
Abstract: Safety concerns on the toxic and carcinogenic effects of formalin exposure have drawn increasing attention to the search for alternative low risk fixatives for processing tissue specimens in laboratories worldwide. Alcohol-based fixatives are considered ... ...
| Abstract | Safety concerns on the toxic and carcinogenic effects of formalin exposure have drawn increasing attention to the search for alternative low risk fixatives for processing tissue specimens in laboratories worldwide. Alcohol-based fixatives are considered some of the most promising alternatives. We evaluated the performance of alcohol-fixed paraffin-embedded (AFPE) samples from Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats analyzing tissue morphology, protein and nucleic acid preservation after short and extremely long fixation times (up to 7 years), using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples as a comparator fixative. Following short and long-term alcohol fixation, tissue morphology and cellular details in tissues, evaluated by scoring stained sections (Hematoxylin-Eosin and Mallory's trichrome), were optimally preserved if compared to formalin fixation. Immunoreactivity of proteins (Ki67, CD3, PAX5, CD68), evaluated by immunohistochemistry, showed satisfactory results when the fixation period did not exceed 1 year. Finally, we confirm the superiority of alcohol fixation compared to formalin, in terms of quantity of nucleic acid extracted from paraffin blocks, even after an extremely long time of alcohol fixation. Our results confirm that alcohol fixation is a suitable and safe alternative to formalin for pathological evaluations. There is a need for standardization of formalin-free methods and harmonization of diagnosis in pathology department worldwide. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Ethanol/chemistry ; Fixatives/chemistry ; Immunohistochemistry ; Organ Specificity ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Tissue Fixation | |||||
| Chemical Substances | Fixatives ; Ethanol (3K9958V90M) | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2019-07-03 | |||||
| Publishing country | Germany | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 77-2 | |||||
| ISSN | 1618-0372 ; 0065-1281 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1618-0372 | |||||
| ISSN | 0065-1281 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1016/j.acthis.2019.05.011 | |||||
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