Antigen Masking During Fixation and Embedding
Formalin fixation and embedding in paraffin is still the best and most widely accepted method for preserving tissue samples. The reason...
Antigen Retrieval in Brain Tissue
IHC on CNS tissues is obviously best done on fixed tissue, with fixation preserving proper cell morphology, and other important...
Human CMV infections and fetus growth restrictions: detecting the virus
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the major cause of virus-related birth defects in newborns: between 0.5 to 2.5% of all newborns infected...
Gentle epitope recovery in weakly fixed or fragile tissues
Sometimes the recovery of epitopes on tissue section may be non-successful due to: -Temperature sensitivity of an epitope (heating over...
Immunofluorescense on Formalin-fixed/PF embedded sections
Multicolour immunofluorescence on tissue sections is very informative, when it comes to the expression of various tissue and...
Epitope recovery on Tissue Arrays
To study the expression of a marker in a series of tissues or tumours, IHC using microarrays is convenient and allows to process large...