I am recently observing DAB staining fail-regions (red circles or red arrows on pictures) on my DAB stained slides. Does anyone have ideas why I am getting this?

I can see only hematoxylin stained cells even in DAB positive area. But sometimes both DAB and hexatoxylin stainings were not stained in the fail-regions.

I used Leica BOND RX automated machine plus DAB staining kit for the DAB staining.

I baked the slides at 65 °C for 3 hours, so I don't think the fail-regions are because of not melted paraffin.

Moreover, the fail-regions are not seemed bubbles, because the shape is different from that of typical round bubbles(blue arrows in DAB-fail 3).

Does anyone experienced like this result? or has seen or solved the issue?

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