Have you checked to see if patient treatment might be a factor? Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org
www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph’s Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Gudrun Lang Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:48 AM To: 'Richard Cartun' Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: AW: AW: [Histonet] Helicobacter pylori immunocytochemistry - cytoplasmatic staining It is polymer. No endogenous biotin-problem. The staining looks quiet specific. It is confined to cytoplasm. And there are clear negativ cells beside faintly stained "positiv" cells. I'm reading about the envading features of helicobacter into host cells and about the "injection" of VacA and CagA into the host-cell via pili. Therefore I think, the polyclonal antibody also detects those proteins. But this phenomenon should be a common thing? Also cases are described, where the authors see an infra-nuclear area in gastric mucosa cells, that's metachromatic with Touluidinblue. (I'm not through the whole literature) But in their figures of IHC the intracellular stainings are stronger. Perhaps the bugs change their shape and sit in the cells? Or the positiv cells mean something like: Helicobacter was here. This night I repeat Hp-IHC with longer incubation and amplification to see, if the cellular staining can be enhanced, while the surrounding stays clear. I work at a diploma-thesis with MALT-Lymphoma cases and Hp-detection. And now I came across this "funny" staining. I will also do a PCR on some of these cases. It will be interesting, if this staining is correlated with a positiv PCR. Bye Gudrun -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Richard Cartun [mailto:rcar...@harthosp.org] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Jänner 2013 16:03 An: gu.l...@gmx.at Betreff: Re: AW: [Histonet] Helicobacter pylori immunocytochemistry - cytoplasmatic staining Is that avidin-biotin based or polymer? Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 545-1596 (860) 545-2204 Fax >>> "Gudrun Lang" <gu.l...@gmx.at> 1/16/2013 12:54 AM >>> We work with ultraview-dab kit on ventana benchmark Ultra. Gudrun -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Richard Cartun [mailto:rcar...@harthosp.org] Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Jänner 2013 23:44 An: gu.l...@gmx.at Betreff: Re: [Histonet] Helicobacter pylori immunocytochemistry - cytoplasmatic staining Which Ventana detection system are you using? Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 545-1596 (860) 545-2204 Fax >>> "Gudrun Lang" <gu.l...@gmx.at> 1/15/2013 3:56 PM >>> Hi! I need some help with the interpretation of Hp-IHC. I stained several cases of FFPE gastric biopsies with polyclonal anti Hp from Cell Marque (1:200, ventana benchmark). Some cases showed the nice bacteria and had usually a clean overall background. But some cases showed no bacteria but slight cellular staining of epithelial cells. It was confined on the cells, and usually not all cells in the biopsy had this staining. >From literature I learned, that Hp brings its toxine and other proteins (CagA) into the hostcell. Is it possible, that the polyclonal antibody detects this stuff, although hardly an intact bacterium can be seen? Anybody with similar findings? Thanks in advance Gudrun Lang _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).
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