Unmasking antigens for immunohistochemistry

British Journal of Biomedical Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 190-196

  MacIntyre, Neil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Whincroft   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigens; Heating; Immunohistochemistry; Microwaves; Peptide hydrolases

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; HEATING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASKING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANTIGENS; FORMALDEHYDE; HEAT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0034813047     PISSN: 09674845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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