An Overview of Western Blotting for Determining Antibody Specificities for Immunohistochemistry

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 717, Issue , 2011, Pages 55-67

  Kurien, Biji T ^a,b   Dorri, Yaser ^a,b   Dillon, Skyler ^a,b   Dsouza, Anil ^a,b   Scofield, R Hal ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrocellulose; SDS PAGE; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84855500163     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-024-9_3     Document Type: Chapter

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