RE: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-04 Thread Tony Henwood
ocked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, AUSTRALIA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Hooper Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 3:12 AM To: FU,DONGTAO; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen Try fixing for

Re: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-04 Thread Andrea Hooper
Try fixing for 5-10 min in PFA. At 10:16 AM -0500 12/3/08, FU,DONGTAO wrote: Hi, all Recently I did some IHC(chromagen methods) on mouse fresh frozen tissues, mainly using insulin antibody on pancreas. The image is much fuzzier compare to paraffin embedding tissue. And the staining also sm

Re: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-04 Thread Kim Merriam
e, MA From: Patti Loykasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FU,DONGTAO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:38:07 AM Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen After hearing a presentation by Sharon Lear descr

Re: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-03 Thread Patti Loykasek
After hearing a presentation by Sharon Lear describing some low temp antigen retrieval that she did, we changed our method for frozen sections. We fix the frozen sections in 10% nuetral buffered formalin for 30'-60', rinse, then do a gentle pretreatment. The gentle pretreatment is usually 10mM citr

RE: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-03 Thread Sebree Linda A
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FU,DONGTAO Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:17 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen Hi, all Recently I did some IHC(chromagen methods) on mouse fresh frozen tissues, mainly using insulin antibody on pancreas.

[Histonet] IHC on fresh frozen

2008-12-03 Thread FU,DONGTAO
Hi, all Recently I did some IHC(chromagen methods) on mouse fresh frozen tissues, mainly using insulin antibody on pancreas. The image is much fuzzier compare to paraffin embedding tissue. And the staining also smeared to acinar cells which surround the islet. I airdried slide(>30min) and