期刊
BIOTECHNIC & HISTOCHEMISTRY
卷 95, 期 6, 页码 411-417出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10520295.2019.1708971
关键词
alpha smooth muscle; amelo-blastoma; color-deconvolution; image intensity; immunohistochemistry; myofibroblasts
资金
- Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province, China [ZR2012DM014]
- People's Livelihoods Science and Technology Project of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China [13-1-3-73-nsh]
Amelo-blastoma is an odontogenic tumor with a slow, locally aggressive growth pattern and multiple clinico-histologic types. The number of stromal myofibroblasts within amelo-blastoma often is correlated with growth and aggressiveness. Color-deconvolution to separate different colors of immunostained tissues is a promising approach to quantifying myofibroblasts in tumors such as amelo-blastoma. We investigated the reliability of the color-deconvolution method using cross-sectional design to evaluate alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA)-positive myofibroblasts in solid multicystic amelo-blastoma. Formalin fixed tissues of eight cases of solid multicystic amelo-blastoma were immunostained for alpha-SMA using the horseradish peroxidase-diaminobenzidine (HRP-DAB) method. Color-deconvolution using ImageJ software was used to quantify the staining intensity of brown DAB alpha-SMA stained myofibroblasts. Color-deconvoluted images of brown DAB stained tissues exhibited distinct morphological features of solid multicystic amelo-blastoma with alpha-SMA stained myofibroblasts distributed abundantly adjacent to the amelo-blastoma epithelial islands. The computed image intensity of alpha-SMA stained myofibroblasts was quantitatively similar among the different amelo-blastoma samples. A combination of color-deconvolution and alpha-SMA staining of myofibroblasts is a useful diagnostic tool for evaluating histologic differentiation and growth pattern of amelo-blastoma.
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