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Turk Lab Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Immunohistochemical Staining for transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFß1)

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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. Primary antibody = rabbit polyclonal carboxy terminus of human transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFß1)
(source: Santa Cruz, SC-146), 1:200 to 400 dilution. The antibody can be used on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue using normal adult pig testis or high-fat diet pig kidney as positive control.

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.

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

8. Primary antibody, rabbit polyclonal carboxy terminus of human transforming growth factor beta 1

10. Dako, LSAB+ Kit, K0690

12. Streptavadin, Dako , LSAB+ Kit K0690

14. DAB Dako, K3466

Literature (top)

Early glomerular changes in rats with dietary-induced hypercholesterolemia.

Cellular distribution of transforming growth factor betas 1, 2, and 3 and their types I and II receptors during postnatal development and spermatogenesis in the boar testis.

Overexpression of transforming growth factor-beta1 and insulin-like growth factor-I in patients with idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Studies of renal injury III: lipid-induced nephropathy in type II diabetes.

Progression from compensated hypertrophy to failure in the pressure-overloaded human heart: structural deterioration and compensatory mechanisms.

Mechanisms of renal structural alterations in combined hypercholesterolemia and renal artery stenosis.

ERK and p38 mediate high-glucose-induced hypertrophy and TGF-beta expression in renal tubular cells.

Increased expression of transforming growth factor-beta1 as a stabilizing factor in human atherosclerotic plaques.