The use of heat-induced hydrolysis in immunohistochemistry on angiotensin II (AT1) receptors enhances the immunoreactivity in paraformaldehyde-fixed brain tissue of normotensive Sprague-Dawley rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 150-164

  Thomas, Martin Alexander ^a   Lemmer, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II (AT1) receptor; Microwave oven heating; Organum vasculosum lamina terminalis; Paraventricular nucleus; Supraoptic nucleus; Triton X 100

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; HEAT; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MICROWAVE OVEN; NONHUMAN; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DETERGENTS; FORMALDEHYDE; HEAT; HYDROLYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; OCTOXYNOL; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; STAINING AND LABELING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE FIXATION; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 33750456196     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.056     Document Type: Article

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