Pepsin pretreatment allows collagen IV immunostaining of blood vessels in adult mouse brain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-82

  Franciosi, Sonia ^a,b   De Gasperi, Rita ^a,b   Dickstein, Dara L ^a   English, Daniel F ^a   Rocher, Anne B ^a   Janssen, William G M ^a   Christoffel, Daniel ^a   Sosa, Miguel A Gama ^a,b   Hof, Patrick R ^a   Buxbaum, Joseph D ^a   Elder, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Antigen retrieval; Blood vessels; Brain; Collagen IV; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse; Pepsin

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; CD146 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; PEPSIN A; PERLECAN; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDOLES; LAMININ; LECTINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PEPSIN A;

EID: 34247468880     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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