Part I: Vital Histochemistry
1. Single Cell Cytochemistry Illustrated by the Demonstration of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Erythrocytes
Anna L. Peters and Cornelis J.F. van Noorden
2. Autofluorescence Spectroscopy for Monitoring Metabolism in Animal Cells and Tissues
Anna C. Croce and Giovanni Bottiroli
3. Enzyme-Histochemistry Technique for Visualizing the Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV (DPP-IV) Activity in the Liver Biliary Tree
Vittorio Bertone, Eleonora Tarantola, and Isabel Freitas
4. Histochemical Demonstration of Tripeptidyl Aminopeptidase I
Mashenka B. Dimitrova, Dimitrinka Y. Atanasova, and Nikolai E. Lazarov
5. Enzyme Histochemistry for Functional Histology in Invertebrates
Francesca Cima
Part II: Lectin Histochemistry
6. Lectin Histochemistry: Historical Perspectives, State of the Art, and the Future
Susan A. Brooks
7. Isolation of Viable Glycosylation-Specific Cell Populations for Further In Vitro or In Vivo Analysis Using Lectin-Coated Magnetic Beads
Ellie-May Beaman, David R.F. Carter, and Susan A. Brooks
8. Lectin Histochemistry for Metastasizing and Non-Metastasizing Cancer Cells
Gerrit Wolters-Eisfeld and Udo Schumacher
9. The Use of Lectin Histochemistry for Detecting Apoptotic Cells in the Seminiferous Epithelium
Vicente Seco-Rovira, Ester Beltrán-Frutos, Jesús Hernández-Martínez, Concepción Ferrer, and Luis Miguel Pastor
Part III: Protein Histochemistry
10. Heat-Induced Antigen Retrieval in Immunohistochemistry: Mechanisms and Applications
Shuji Yamashita and Osamu Katsumata
11. Detecting Neuronal Differentiation Markers in Newborn Cells of the Adult Brain
Sara Bonzano and Silvia De Marchis
12. Characterizing Satellite Cells and Myogenic Progenitors During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Nicolas A. Dumont and Michael A. Rudnicki
13. Immunohistochemical Detection of the Autophagy Markers LC3 and p62/SQSTM1 in Formalin Fixed and Paraffin Embedded Tissue
Sabina Berezowska and José A. Galván
Part IV: Lipid Histochemistry
14. Tissue Fixation and Processing for the Histological Identification of Lipids
Víctor Carriel, Fernando Campos, José Aneiros-Fernández, and John A. Kiernan
15. Staining Methods for Normal and Regenerative Myelin in the Nervous System
Víctor Carriel, Antonio Campos, Miguel Alaminos, Ste