Abstract
The extraction of lipids and phospholipids during dehydration and plastic embedding steps results in poor preservation of the phospholipid rich lamellar bodies (LB) in alveolar type II epithelial cells. To achieve better retention of phospholipids, we combined inflation fixation and an en bloc staining protocol using 4% aqueous uranyl acetate (UA), thereby improving the preservation of the LBs for both the wild type and transgenic mice expressing modified pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B; Akinbi et al., 1997).Lungs of 6-8 week-old mice were inflation fixed (Bunkingham and Weyder, 1981) with ice cold 2% paraformaldehye and 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer (SCB), pH 7.3, postfixed in fresh fixative at 4 °C overnight, incubated with 1% osmium tetroxide in 0.1 M SCB at room temperature for 2 hours, and stained en bloc with 4% aqueous UA overnight.
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