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Morphological and chemical studies of pathological human and mice brain at the subcellular level: correlation between light, electron, and nanosims microscopies.

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dc.creator Quintana Rodríguez, Carmen
dc.creator Wu, T. D.
dc.creator Delatour, B.
dc.creator Dhenain, M.
dc.creator Guerquin-Kern, J. L.
dc.creator Croisy, A.
dc.date 2008-02-04T13:34:21Z
dc.date 2008-02-04T13:34:21Z
dc.date 2008-02-04T13:34:21Z
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:59:55Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:59:55Z
dc.identifier PMID: 17465396
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2830
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2830
dc.description Microsc Res Tech. 2007 Apr;70(4):281-95
dc.description Neurodegenerative diseases induce morphological and chemical alterations in well-characterized regions of the brain. Understanding their pathological processes requires the use of methods that assess both morphological and chemical alterations in the tissues. In the past, microprobe approaches such as scanning electron microscopy combined with an X-ray spectrometer, Proton induced X-ray emission, secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), and laser microprobe mass analysis have been used for the study of pathological human brain with limited success. At the present, new SIMS instruments have been developed, such as the NanoSIMS-50 ion microprobe, that allow the simultaneous identification of five elements with high sensitivity, at subcellular spatial resolution (about 50-100 nm with the Cs(+) source and about 150-200 nm with O(-) source). Working in scanning mode, 2D distribution of five elements (elemental maps) can be obtained, thus providing their exact colocalization. The analysis can be performed on semithin or ultrathin embedded sections. The possibility of using transmission electron microscopy and SIMS on the same ultrathin sections allows the correlation between structural and analytical observations at subcellular and ultrastructural level to be established. Our observations on pathological brain areas allow us to establish that the NanoSIMS-50 ion microprobe is a highly useful instrument for the imaging of the morphological and chemical alterations that take place in these brain areas. In the human brain our results put forward the subcellular distribution of iron-ferritin-hemosiderin in the hippocampus of Alzheimer disease patients. In the thalamus of transgenic mice, our results have shown the presence of Ca-Fe mineralized amyloid deposits.
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dc.language eng
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dc.title Morphological and chemical studies of pathological human and mice brain at the subcellular level: correlation between light, electron, and nanosims microscopies.
dc.type Artículo


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