A rapid method for staining large chylomicrons.

In this report, we present a rapid method for producing high-quality micrographs suitable for determining the size distributions of particles in concentrated samples of postprandial chylomicrons and chylomicron remnants. The procedure consists of mixing particles with osmium tetroxide in water to stabilize the lipids of the particles. These fixed and positively stained particles are then negatively stained with phosphotungstate in the presence of dilute sucrose. This dual staining procedure prevents the fusion and clustering of chylomicrons during processing for electron microscopy and is effective with particles of different lipid compositions. In addition, this procedure is simple and rapid, adding only one mixing step and 5 min to the preparation time required for conventional negative stains.

• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Journal of Lipid Research

• Publication date

  1989-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0022-2275(20)38212-2PMID 2482323
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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