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We are trying to achieve better results in our immunohistochemistry assays (paraffin-embedded tissue sections) for antigen retrieval of surface markers such as CD3. Our current protocol of sodium...
09 June 2017 7,110 6 View
I'm looking for an immunohistochemistry protocol for Substance P (SP) in the Ventral Pallidum. I would appreciate any help.
01 June 2017 3,000 1 View
Hey everybody, does anyone have experience with kidney stainings (podocin) in embryos at 72 hpf? Wen want to image preferably the whole embryo without cutting afterwards. I'm really new to this...
22 May 2017 7,004 1 View
Hey team, hoping for some help here.The images look great, but I'm running into a roadblock for quantification of neurites in hippocampus, any suggestions?Details: I have several coronal rat brain...
17 May 2017 2,927 3 View
Hi, I want to do immunohistochemistry of GFAP in brain tissue (coronal sections). And this the first time I am doing IHC of mouse brain tissue. Normally for histopathology we take 5 micron...
11 May 2017 10,087 11 View
I've been seeing ring structures in mouse cortices for various different primaries (see ppt attached with GFAP, vWF, and Iba1). DAPI often appears in the center of these holes. The rings haven't...
08 May 2017 5,586 3 View
I would like to do some "proof of concept" immunofluorescence stainings on brain tissues and lymph nodes.
04 May 2017 6,423 3 View
We would like to analyze neurodegeneration by immunohistochemistry (or other tools such as FACS if they would be appropriate). Several techniques that are available including TUNEL, caspase3...
01 May 2017 1,594 11 View
Is there such a case that certain antibodies have limited access to the intra-cellular domain of its receptor and this results in a negative staining? I have been struggling trying to detect...
07 March 2017 2,786 4 View
I'm currently slicing mouse brains that have been fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (and embedded in agar) on the leica VT1200S. I've been having some issues with evenness of tissue in the slices and...
02 March 2017 6,158 2 View
Hi all I am having a trouble with my immunohistochemistry. I am trying to detect a secreted protein in FFPE mouse tissue sections, and I use concentration-matched goat IgG as my negative control....
01 March 2017 3,256 5 View
I've previously done multi labelling immunofluorescence experiments using 405 conjugated secondary antibodies, which worked well. This was in non perfused mice, where the brain was sliced in...
01 March 2017 5,078 2 View
I want to do a double immunofluorescence staining, and I am wondering how to choose the secondary antibody, if both of the primary antibodies are from the same host; rabbit. In other words, I...
21 February 2017 6,161 7 View
Hi everyone! I am trying to perform IHC for F4/80 (ab6640 abcam) on pfa fixed LUNG samples, but i'm not able to obtain a good staining. Do you know a good protocol? I usually use a concentration...
21 February 2017 2,754 2 View
I am looking at the expression of a particular protein in the skin by immunofluorescence and I would like to know which cells express this protein. For that, I stained both cryosections and...
21 February 2017 7,248 1 View
We have been using the anti-Human CD16 clone H27 antibody for immunohistochemistry of sections from formalin-fixed paraffin blocks. We need to re-order it but Biorad apparently no longer make...
15 February 2017 4,819 2 View
Hello, everybody. I want to perform IHC with my tissue sample. I have the antibodies for the markers that I want to see, but all of them are conjugated with the dye such as FITC, PE or APC. Can...
07 February 2017 4,780 10 View
We store our brain tissue at -20°C (usually in 50% phosphate buffer, 30% ethylene glycol, and 20% glycerol). Would NaCl in the solution interfere with cryoprotection (i.e., would it allow freezing...
24 January 2017 8,375 1 View
We have raised a rabbit antiserum against a protein coupled peptide. This peptide has been reported to be antigenic and some papers have been published with a commercial preparation raised in the...
23 January 2017 5,768 4 View
Hi there, I am doing immunohisto-staining and all my results came negative.. I washed the sections with 200 microliter of PBS. and now I am thinking that I should have immerse them in PBS rather...
18 January 2017 7,326 8 View
Hello, I am trying to optimize our Olig2 immunohistochemistry staining protocol for PFA fixed mouse brain. I found a very helpful website that reviewed several recent publications and found...
12 January 2017 4,412 6 View
After doing an alpha-MSH DAB staining in mouse PVN sections, some of them show some 'projections' thicker than normal, and also cell bodies stained. Since it is an alpha-MSH staining, I didn't...
11 January 2017 6,705 3 View
I am performing IHC using mouse brain slices. I am performing double labeling and the blocking buffer I am using is normal goat serum. One target remains constant in my experiments, and the second...
05 January 2017 5,042 3 View
Hello everyone, In order to cut 10 µm slices of mammospheres with cryostat, I had to colour them with eosin to be able to follow them while cutting.What a bad idea you'll tell me, because eosin...
20 December 2016 5,363 5 View