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Conditions are described by which cells and fresh frozen tissues, following fixation with ethanol-ether, and after staining with the amidoblack (AB)-TCA-staining method, show a modified dye/protein ratio of 0.9 moles AB/105 g protein compared to 8.5 moles AB/105 g protein (Schauenstein et al. 1980) as in a previously used method. In contrast to the AB-TCA-method, which leads to extremly high and unmeasurable extinctions in tissue sections, staining with the modified AB-TCA-23st-method with 10 μm tissue sections produces easily measurable extinction values.
A correlation of the microspectrometrically determined mean total extinction values of different cell types and nuclei after staining with the tetrazonium method (Nöhammer 1978; Nöhammer and Desoye 1981) and on the other hand with the AB-TCA 23st-method has been found. The microspectrometrically determined extinctions after AB-TCA 23st-staining can be calculated; an extinction of 0.04248 corresponds to 1 pgm protein.
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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. E. Schauenstein on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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Nöhammer, G. A modification of the amidoblack-TCA-staining for quantitative microspectrometrical determination of proteins in tissue sections. Histochemistry 80, 395–400 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00495424
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