title: Alteration of immunoglobulin-bearing lymphoma cells by fixation.
abstract: Four large cell lymphomas known to be monoclonal B-cell proliferations were studied with immunofluorescent and immunohistochemical methods for the detection of kappa- and lambda-light chains. Frozen sections of lymphoma tissues as well as formalin and B-5-fixed tissues embedded in paraffin were studied. Both immunofluorescent and immunohistochemical methods gave similar results on frozen sections; however, a number of discrepancies were noted between the results obtained on fixed tissues and those obtained on frozen tissues. In an effort to identify a fixative which did not alter immunoglobulin (Ig), mouse lymph nodes were fixed in different fixatives before Ig detection; but all of the fixatives tested destroyed the Ig present on normal cortical B lymphocytes. Immunoglobulin-bearing normal and neoplastic lymphocytes are better detected on frozen sections than on paraffin sections after routine fixation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005404:Fixatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005629:Frozen Sections; D006801:Humans; D007147:Immunoglobulin Light Chains / Q000032:analysis*; D007145:Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains / Q000032:analysis*; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / Q000032:analysis*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D005404:Fixatives; D007147:Immunoglobulin Light Chains; D007145:Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains