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Reversing the effect of formalin on the binding of propidium iodide to DNA

✍ Scribed by W. Roy Overton; J. Philip McCoy Jr.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
575 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0196-4763

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✦ Synopsis

Formalin, an excellent preservative of cellular morphology, is a commonly used fixative for tissue specimens in hospital pathology laboratories. This preserved material is a potential source of tissue for diagnostic and retrospective research studies on DNA using flow cytometry. Unfortunately, formalin interferes with the binding of propidium iodide (PI) and other fluorescent dyes to DNA, thus altering the measurement of DNA content by flow cytometry or image analysis. This interference has been attributed to the cross-linking of histones by formalin. Since formalin alters the measurement of DNA content in formalin-fixed and for-malin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues, this study was designed to explore the use of various physicochemical methods to reverse the effect of the formalin on the binding of PI to DNA. This study demonstrates that resuspending formalin-fixed cells in PBS and heating them at 75Β°C for at least 1 h prior to staining with PI restores the staining of the DNA to approximately the same fluorescence intensity as that of fresh tissue.

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