Mouse spleen tissue as a staining intensity reference for immunohistochemistry

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-220

  Moon, Yeonsook ^a   Park, Gyeongsin ^b   Han, Kyungja ^b   Kang, Chang Suk ^b   Lee, Wonbae ^b  

^a Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

B cells; Immunohistochemistry (IHC); Mouse spleen; Plasma cells; Reference tissue for IHC

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL MEMBRANE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLEEN; STAINING; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPLEEN; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 49749152045     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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