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  • Title: The use of a sodium tungstate developer markedly improves the electron microscopic localization of zinc by the Timm method.
    Author: Seress L, Gallyas F.
    Journal: J Neurosci Methods; 2000 Jul 31; 100(1-2):33-9. PubMed ID: 11040364.
    Abstract:
    The Timm's sulfide-silver method is frequently used for the demonstration of the mossy fiber bundle or sprouted mossy fibers in the normal or epileptic hippocampal dentate gyrus. Under the light microscope the results are excellent, but the ultrastructure is considerably impaired and the silver grains produced are too large as compared to the sizes of intra-synaptic structures. The present study was meant to test a series of physical developers containing, instead of gum arabic, sodium tungstate as protective colloid. One of them left the ultrastructure fairly intact and produced small, round silver grains, making it possible to precisely locate zinc in mossy terminals. With this method, it could be demonstrated that zinc is contained inside synaptic vesicles in the resting axon terminals of granule cells. As a consequence of prolonged sodium sulfide perfusion, zinc is released from synaptic vesicles and enters the synaptic cleft.
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