Abstract
Nitroso-naphthol reacts with tyrosine residues of peptides (and probably also proteins) to yield intensely fluorescent condensation products. This reaction forms the basis of a fluorescence histochemical procedure designed to demonstrate cells that are rich in tyrosine-containing peptides or proteins. In models the method was found to be specific for p-hydroxylated phenolic compounds. Fluorescence was induced also following formaldehyde vapour fixation. With the nitroso-naphthol technique the zymogen granules of gastric chief cells, intestinal Paneth cells, pancreatic acinar cells and certain peptide hormone-secreting cells such as the GH cells in the adenohypophysis, the insulin cells of the pancreatic islets and the calcitonin cells of the thyroid gave intense fluorescence with spectral characteristics indistinguishable from those ofthe fluorophores of tyrosine-containing peptides. In addition, a population of endocrine-like cells in the antral and intestinal mucosa of certain mammals displayed fluorescence.
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