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Turk Lab Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Immunohistochemical Staining for Isolectin B4

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1. Cut paraffin sections @ 4 microns and place on positively-charged slides (Surgipath X-tra Slides® 00210)

2. Microwave slides briefly 1-2 min. on high power until paraffin is just melted or bake in 60 degree C oven for 1 hour.

3. Deparaffinize , run slides to water and perform steamer (Black and Decker HS2000 vegetable steamer) retrieval @ 90-100 C in Dako Target Retrieval solution (S1699) for 30 min. with 20 min. room temperature (RT) cooling time. Distilled water rinse several times.

4. Quench endogenous peroxidase with fresh 3% H202 for 5 min.

5. Rinse with distilled water several times and place in Tris with Tween buffer (Dako S3306)

6. Block tissue with A/B block (Vector) for 15 min. each with a Tris with Tween buffer rinse between and after.

7. Wipe around tissue and block with protein block (Dako X0909 ) for 10 min.

8. Drip protein block off slide and apply primary antibody for overnight incubation. Primary biotintylated antibody = anti-Isolectin B4 (source: Vector Laboratories, catalog # B1205), 1:400 dilution. The biotintylated antibody can be used on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue using positive control porcine endothelium in block 2 LAD with LV myocardium 9275-01 & 9276-01 were the 1st used.

9. Next day place slides in Tris with Tween buffer and rinse once.


10. Apply label (Streptavadin, Dako , LSAB+ Kit K0690) for 30 min. at RT

11. Rinse with distilled water several times.

12. Wipe around slides and apply diaminobenzidine (DAB Dako, K3466) for 5-10 min., monitor slides and place in water when desired intensity has been reached.

13. Rinse several times with distilled water.

14. Apply DAB enhancer (Dako, S1961) for 5 min. at RT.

15. Rinse several times with distilled water.

16. Give a 1 min. hematoxylin counterstain followed by 10 seconds in 1% acid alcohol and 1 min. in ammonia water to blue.

17. Run through graded alcohols to xylene and coverslip with permanent mounting media.

 

Last GLP modification 8/1/04:
Jennifer Casati
James R. Turk

 

Material List (top)

1. Surgipath X-tra Slides® 00210

3. Black and Decker HS2000 vegetable steamer

3. Dako Target Retrieval solution S1699

5. Dako S3306

6. A/B block Vector

8. Anti-Isolectin B4

10. Streptavadin, Dako , LSAB+ Kit K0690

12. DAB Dako, K3466