i would like to see the fibrin that is associated with metastatic cancer cells and i would like to know which is the best stain that could be used to stain fibrin
I looked at a lot f fibrin/fibrinogen in mouse tumour tissue sections some years ago. I used a commercially available primary anti-body and then linked it with a fluorescence labeled secondary antibody in a standard immuno-histochemistry protocol. That way you are flexible if fluorescence doesn't work for you and you might prefer the option of streptavidin/horseradish peroxidase, which also is more stable for archiving microscope slides.
MSB (Lendrum's) but it does have some limitations. Its cheaper and easier than IHC but not as specific.. It can fail to pick up very young fibrin and very old fibrin.. http://stainsfile.info/StainsFile/stain/fibrin/MSB-long.htm
Do not use Bouins solution at 56C use it at room temperature it will work fine at RT.. As it is explosive when it dries out..
>Since - as usual with stains - it depends...."most suitable"....this remains a good question:
Why not giving a try using
Weigert's Stain for Fibrin? (not knowing whether CARSTAIR's stain is "more specific" than Weigert's....
cf: (attached pdf: please respect copyrights)
or: try other RG-Q&A's using the RG-SearchFunction: (adding Fibrin stain into the form-field SEARCH QUESTIONS resulting in: https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=Fibrin%20%20%20stain&type=question