Hello everyone,

I am working on elastin autofluorescence and I am using rat aorta to optimise a protocol. I have read from literature that elastin fluoresces by itself which makes difficult to recognise elastin labelled with specific antibodies anti elastin. I did some immunolabelling using different negative controls (primary antibodies only, secondary antibodies only, no antibodies at all, PBS only....) but still elastic fibres fluoresce without any antibodies. 

How can I overcome this problem? how can I make my immunolabelling such as I'd be able to distinguish when elastin has been labelled and when has not? I'd like to know where elastin is exactly placed in the rat aorta and I've told that using the intrinsic fluorescence is not enough, I need an immunolabelling to be sure.

Does anyone any suggestions/ideas?

Thank you

Any ideas are very much appreciated

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