I am doing frozen section IHC and HE staining. But after all I found my tissue shrinkage. I have several problems.
1. The main problem is on the hematoxylin staining after IHC. When I finished all the work, I found some tissue cells shrinkage. This problem appears in a lot of slides which are done at the same time, even the same tissue. I have attached the photos of the same tissue.
2. When I stained with H&E after fixation of 4% PA, the eosin signal cannot be detected or very weak. If I directly stained with Eosin without fixation, it works well. And ammonium water treatment also inhibit the staining of Eosin.
The brief protocol is following:
1. fresh sample in OCT and store in -80
2. frozen section
3. air dry for 10 min and fix in 4% PA for 15 min
4. PBS 5min X2
5. 0.3% H2O2 10min
6. PBS 5min X2
7. Blocking 1h at RT
8. Primary antibody overnight at 4
9. PBS 5min X2
10. Secondary antibody for 1h at RT
11.PBS 5min X2
12. DAB
13. Rinse water
14. Harris Hematoxylin for 30s
15. rinse water
16. ammonium water 1dig
17. rinse water
18. 70% 95% 100% 100% Ethanol for 30s respectively
19. Xylene 1min X2
If stain with Eosin, stain for 1 min.
I have been stuck here for a long time. Can anyone give some advices?