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Selective visualisation of neuroepithelial bodies in vibratome slices of living lung by 4-Di-2-ASP in various animal species.

Abstract：

:Pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies (NEBs) are extensively innervated organoid groups of neuroendocrine cells that lie in the epithelium of intrapulmonary airways. Our present understanding of the morphology of NEBs is comprehensive, but direct physiological studies have so far been challenging because the extremely diffuse distribution of NEBs makes them inaccessible in vivo and because a reliable in vitro model is lacking. Our aim has been to optimise an in vitro method based on vibratome slices of living lungs, a model that includes NEBs, the surrounding tissues and at least part of their complex innervation. This in vitro model offers satisfactory access to pulmonary NEBs, provided that they can be differentiated from other tissue elements. The model was first optimised for living rat lung slices. Neutral red staining, reported to stain rabbit NEBs, proved unsuccessful in rat slices. On the other hand, the styryl pyridinium dye, 4-(4-diethylaminostyryl)-N-methylpyridinium iodide (4-Di-2-ASP), showed brightly fluorescent cell groups, reminiscent of NEBs, in the airway epithelium of living lung slices from rat. In addition, nerve fibres innervating the NEBs were labelled. The reliable and specific labelling of pulmonary NEBs by 4-Di-2-ASP was corroborated by immunostaining for protein gene-product 9.5. Live cell imaging and propidium iodide staining further established the acceptable viability of 4-Di-2-ASP-labelled NEB cells in lung slices, even over long periods. Importantly, the in vitro model and 4-Di-2-ASP staining procedure for pulmonary NEBs appeared to be equally reproducible in mouse, hamster and rabbit lungs. Diverse immunocytochemical procedures could be applied to the lung slices providing an opportunity to combine physiological and functional morphological studies. Such an integrated approach offers additional possibilities for elucidating the function(s) of pulmonary NEBs in health and disease.

journal_name

Cell Tissue Res

journal_title

Cell and tissue research

authors

Pintelon I,De Proost I,Brouns I,Van Herck H,Van Genechten J,Van Meir F,Timmermans JP,Adriaensen D

doi

10.1007/s00441-005-1111-y

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pub_date

2005-07-01 00:00:00

pages

21-33

issue

eissn

0302-766X

issn

1432-0878

journal_volume

321

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Selective visualisation of neuroepithelial bodies in vibratome slices of living lung by 4-Di-2-ASP in various animal species.