pH-dependent antigen unmasking in paraformaldehyde-fixed tissue cryosections

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 503-506

  Pavlakis, Evangelos ^a   Chalepakis, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antigen unmasking; Cryosections; Frem2; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

FRAS 1 PROTEIN; FREM 2 PROTEIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN; FORMALDEHYDE; FRAS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FREM2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; POLYMER; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DEPLETION; EMBRYO; FRASER SYNDROME; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKIN; TISSUE FIXATION; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYMERS; SKIN; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 55949137207     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e3181632bee     Document Type: Article

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