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Lab: Standard Immunohistochemistry Staining Procedure for Alpha
Smooth Muscle Actin
Materials
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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 withTween 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. Apply Alpha Smooth Muscle Actin from Dako, Product #
M 0851, mouse monoclonal antibody, formalin-fixed paraffin embedded,
1:200 dilution. A positive control is porcine gastrointestinal tract
(Figure 1) and muscular arteries.
9. Next day place slides in Tris with Tween buffer and rinse once.
10. Wipe around tissue and apply secondary antibody for 30 min.
incubation at RT. (Dako, LSAB+ Kit, K0690)
11. Tris with Tween buffer rinse.
12. Apply label (Streptavadin, Dako , LSAB+ Kit K0690) for 30 min.
at RT
13. Rinse with distilled water several times.
14. 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.
15. Rinse several times with distilled water.
16. Apply DAB enhancer (Dako, S1961) for 5 min. at RT.
17. Rinse several times with distilled water.
18. Give a 1 min. hematoxylin counterstain followed by 10 seconds
in 1% acid alcohol and 1 min. in ammonia water to blue.
19. Run through graded alcohols to xylene and coverslip with permanent
mounting media.
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GLP modification 7/1/04:
Jennifer
Casati
James R. Turk
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