Newly formed skeletal muscle fibers are prone to false positive immunostaining by rabbit antibodies

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-71

  Andersen, Ditte C ^a,b   Kliem, Anette ^a   Schrøder, Henrik Daa ^b   Jensen, Charlotte H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

False positive staining; Immunochemistry; Rabbit polyclonals; Skeletal muscle regeneration

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RABBIT ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOBLASTS; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 78649844479     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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