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Optimized Golgi-Cox Staining Validated in the Hippocampus of Spared Nerve Injury Mouse Model.


ABSTRACT: Golgi-Cox staining has been used extensively in neuroscience. Despite its unique ability to identify neuronal interconnections and neural processes, its lack of consistency and time-consuming nature reduces its appeal to researchers. Here, using a spared nerve injury (SNI) mouse model and control mice, we present a modified Golgi-Cox staining protocol that can stain mouse hippocampal neurons within 8 days. In this improved procedure, the mouse brain was fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and then stored in a modified Golgi-Cox solution at 37 ± 2°C. The impregnation period was reduced from 5-14 days to 36-48 h. Brain slices prepared in this way could be preserved long-term at -80°C for up to 8 weeks. In addition to minimizing frequently encountered problems and reducing the time required to conduct the method, our modified protocol maintained, and even improved, the quality of traditional Golgi-Cox staining as applied to hippocampal neuronal morphology in SNI mice.

SUBMITTER: Zhang JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7680754 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optimized Golgi-Cox Staining Validated in the Hippocampus of Spared Nerve Injury Mouse Model.

Zhang Jia-Wei JW   Tabassum Sidra S   Jiang Jin-Xiang JX   Long Cheng C  

Frontiers in neuroanatomy 20201109


Golgi-Cox staining has been used extensively in neuroscience. Despite its unique ability to identify neuronal interconnections and neural processes, its lack of consistency and time-consuming nature reduces its appeal to researchers. Here, using a spared nerve injury (SNI) mouse model and control mice, we present a modified Golgi-Cox staining protocol that can stain mouse hippocampal neurons within 8 days. In this improved procedure, the mouse brain was fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and then st  ...[more]

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