Re: [Histonet] CD 4/CD 8 staining of frozen stomach sections of mice
From:
antje.marcantonio@pharma.novartis.com
Hello Manuelle
may I ask you to check your secondary antibody? How does the control look like without applying the primary ?
We use both for CD4 and for CD8a on mouse frozens antibodies( host rat) from Pharmigen. As secondary I use a rabbit anti-rat biotinylated one, mouse adsorbed from Vector.
For the blocking of endogenous peroxidase don't use methanol (!) , it weakens the signal in most cases. For the unspecific binding block we use 10% normal rabbit serum (-> secondary host species).
I hope this helps.
Good luck,
Antje Marcantonio
Novartis Pharma AG
BU Transplantation Research
Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 324 6730