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  • Title: Ultrastructural localization of cholesterol by enzyme histochemistry.
    Author: Jones HM, Miyai K.
    Journal: Histochem J; 1981 Nov; 13(6):1017-28. PubMed ID: 7338479.
    Abstract:
    The histochemical localization of cholesterol using oxidized diaminobenzidine as the final reaction product was studied at the electron microscopical level and compared with the digitonin method of cholesterol localization based on cholesterol digitonide as the final reaction product. Tissue chopper sections of fixed rat adrenal glands were incubated at 37 degrees C in a medium consisting of 0.8 units/ml cholesterol oxidase, 1.4 units/ml cholesterol ester hydrolase, 50 units/ml horseradish peroxidase, 0.5 mg/ml diaminobenzidine, 0.1% v/v Triton X-100 (or Surfal) and an endogenous peroxidase inhibitor in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. An electron-dense osmiophilic reaction product was observed in many lipid droplets, intracellular vesicles and focally around mitochondria. Appropriate control experiments indicated that deposition of reaction product depended on the presence of cholesterol and the necessary enzymes. Comparison studies using digitonin confirmed the presence of cholesterol in the lipid droplets, but ultrastructural distortion limited the resolution of the more discrete deposits of cholesterol than the digitonin method because it does not cause distortion of cellular ultrastructure attributed to the formation of cholesterol digitonide. The enzyme method or a combination of enzyme and digitonin enable localization of free, esterified or total cholesterol.
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