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The retrograde fluorescence tracer, True Blue (TB), was injected into the forebrain septal area of neonatal rats. After 3 to 6 days the brains of these animals were carefully removed and placed in ice-cold sterilized physiological saline containing 1% glucose. Under the surgical microscope, one or two pairs of mesencephalic tissue samples, each containing a dorsal raphe nucleus, were punched out and transplanted into the third ventricle of a 5,6-DHT-pretreated adult rat. One month after transplantation, all animals were perfused and their brains sectioned using a cryostat. The sections were examined using a fluorescence microscope, and then processed for serotonin immunohistochemistry. The grafts were found to be successfully implanted and connected with the middle portion of the third ventricle. Four types of neurons, i.e., TB-labeled, serotonin-labeled, both TB-and serotonin-labeled, and non-labeled neurons, were detected in the grafts. This double-labeling method is considered to be a useful technique in characterizing the neurons in grafts which consist of a heterogeneous cell population.
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Tanabe, T., Ueda, S. & Sano, Y. Combined method of fluorescence tracer technique and PAP immunohistochemistry for discrimination of the transplanted cells. Histochemistry 91, 191–194 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00490131
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