Three commercial antibodies against α1-adrenergic receptor subtypes lack specificity in paraffin-embedded sections of murine tissues

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 387, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 703-706

  Böhmer, Tobias ^a   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a   Gericke, Adrian ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Immunohistochemistry; Knockout mice; Paraffin embedded sections; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PARAFFIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; ADRA1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; ADRA1B PROTEIN, MOUSE; ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CORONARY VESSELS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1;

EID: 84904125175     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: 14321912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-014-0992-2     Document Type: Article

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