TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of glutaraldehyde or osmium tetroxide fixation on the osmotic properties of lung cells
AU - Wangensteen, Douglas
AU - Bachofen, Hans
AU - Weibel, Ewald R.
PY - 1981/11
Y1 - 1981/11
N2 - The osmotic properties of lung cells have been tested before and after perfusion fixation of isolated, perfused lungs with either glutaraldehyde or osmium tetroxide. The testing procedure was to add hypertonic sucrose to the perfusate for several minutes and monitor the lung weight response (an ‘osmotic transient’). Each lung was perfused with one or the other fixative solutions for 10 min, then the perfusate was changed back to Ringer‐lactate before the post‐fixation test was conducted. The results indicate that osmium tetroxide makes the cell membranes as permeable to sucrose as to water, and that sucrose thus causes no osmotic volume change. Glutaraldehyde, on the other hand, apparently preserves the impermeability of the cell membranes to sucrose, but the osmotic volume response is attenuated, indicating that significant changes in the cells have occurred. 1981 Blackwell Science Ltd
AB - The osmotic properties of lung cells have been tested before and after perfusion fixation of isolated, perfused lungs with either glutaraldehyde or osmium tetroxide. The testing procedure was to add hypertonic sucrose to the perfusate for several minutes and monitor the lung weight response (an ‘osmotic transient’). Each lung was perfused with one or the other fixative solutions for 10 min, then the perfusate was changed back to Ringer‐lactate before the post‐fixation test was conducted. The results indicate that osmium tetroxide makes the cell membranes as permeable to sucrose as to water, and that sucrose thus causes no osmotic volume change. Glutaraldehyde, on the other hand, apparently preserves the impermeability of the cell membranes to sucrose, but the osmotic volume response is attenuated, indicating that significant changes in the cells have occurred. 1981 Blackwell Science Ltd
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1981.tb00313.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1981.tb00313.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 6798217
AN - SCOPUS:0019769477
VL - 124
SP - 189
EP - 196
JO - The Microscopic Journal and Structural Record
JF - The Microscopic Journal and Structural Record
SN - 0022-2720
IS - 2
ER -