Falconi M., Pelotti S*, Bini C., Galanzi A.C., Ferri G.M, Teti G., Breschi L., Ceccardi S., Mazzotti G.
Dipartimento di Scienze Anatomiche Umane e Fisiopatologia dell'Apparato Locomotore and *Dipartimento di Medicina e Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina Legale, University of Bologna, Italy The PCR technology and the microdissection based methods are usefull tools in diagnostic and research fields where correlation between morphology and genotype is crucial. Our previous study described at nanometric resolution level the nuclear morphology of cryosectioned cells of about 100 nm thickness using a field emission in lens scanning electron microscopy (FEISEM) which permits the detection of secondary electron without any coating allowing in situ hybridization or immunocytochemical localization. Cryosectioned cells collected on silicon chips were submitted to molecular analysis via direct amplification of amelogenin locus and hypervariable regions II (HVII) of mitochondrial DNA. The protocol was developed utilizing cryosectiones of cells fixed in formalin and methanol- acetic acid collected on silicon chips in order to couple morphological and molecular informations. The FEISEM analysis of ultrathin cryosections revealed morphological differences on citoplasmic and nuclear organization related to the different fixatives while no substantial morphological differences were observed after the DNA amplification. All the samples were successfully amplified. For amelogenin a product of 103 bp corrisponding to X chromosome locus was identified in all the samples, HVII mtDNA was sequenced; the results were compared in fixed and unfixed cells. The possibility to identify specific cell regions at nanometric resolution coupled with molecular analysis on samples that can be utilized for further investigations represents a useful approach for the complete understanding of genetic mechanism.
AUTHOR INDEX
& ADDRESSES
NAME
ADDRESS
E-MAIL
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Abbro L.
Department. of Biological and Environmental Science and Technology, University of Lecce, Italy.
Istituto di Istologia e Analisi di Laboratorio, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy
35
Bazett-Jones D.P
The Hospital For Sick Cbildren, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
22
Beaujean N.
Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA Jouy-en-Josas, France
Nathalie.Beaujean@jouy.inra.fr
16,29
Becker A.
DAAD Laboratory, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China
29
Belmont A. S.
Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US.
18
Benassarou A.
LERI, Reims, France.
18
Benavente, R.
Biocenter, University of Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
benavente@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
33
Berezney R.
1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Albertov 4, 128 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic, Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.