Immuno staining

Tissue microarray (TMA) TMA technology permits to arrange hundreds or thousands of tissue cores (probes), such as clinical biopsies or tumor samples, on a single slide, and then to analyze by a single immuno-staining or in situ hybridization reaction. 

Figure 1-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a dividing cell of Escherichia coli 0157 H7 attached to the intestinal epithelium of a neonatal calf. These bacteria, which are able to efface the intestinal microvilli, form characteristic attachments, and secrete shiga toxins, are responsible for -73,000 illnesses and 60 deaths per year in the U. S.10a After embedding, the glutaraldehyde-fixed tissue section was immuno-stained with goat anti-0157 IgG followed by protein A conjugated to 10-nm gold particles. These are seen around the periphery of the cell bound to the O-antigen (see Fig. 8-28). Notice the two microvilli of the epithelium. Courtesy of Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom, National Animal Disease Center, USD A, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA.

Cryostat sections and cytocentrifuge preparations should be air-dried for at least 1 h but preferably overnight before immuno-staining. Before immunolabeling, cryostat sections should be fixed in cold acetone for 10 min and cytospin slides should be fixed for 90 s in a 1 1 mixture of acetone and methanol at room temperature. After fixation, follow the IGSS method for paraffin sections from step 3. Cytospin preparations are usually adequately covered by standard... 

Standard immuno staining techniques involving application of the cocktail of primary antibodies followed by washes, then application of a cocktail of the secondary antibody and a-bungarotoxin followed by washes, work well provide patience is used (for instance, primary antibodies should be applied overnight followed by several hours of washing the next day). 

Appropriate controls should always be run with any immunocytochemical procedure. Controls may include omitting the primary antibody, substituting preimmune serum, normal serum, or normal IgG for the primary antibody, adsorbing the primary antibody against the antigen, or immuno-staining with an unrelated antibody. 

In the 1980s, studies with EAE, an animal model mimicking MS, indicated that interferon y (IFN y) was effective in treating that disease and a trial was initiated to evaluate its potential benefit in human MS. Rather than showing efficacy, in 1987, use of IFNy as a therapy in MS patients caused an increase in clinical exacerbations and forced the clinical trial to terminate early (Panitch et al., 1987). Associated study of IFNy in 20 MS patients indicates increased concentrations of IFNy and TNFa precede the observation of clinical defects (Beck et al., 1988). An evaluation of primary RR-MS patient lymphocytes using flow cytometry supports a correlation between EDSS scores and IFNy secretion (Petereit et al, 2000). Intracellular cytokine immuno-staining of anti CD8-I- T cells reveals a correlation with IFNy and disease phase but not disease activity (Becher et al., 1999). What initially seemed efficacious in the EAE animal model, not only did not decrease MS symptoms but is now felt to be a marker of active inflammatory disease. 

Mohammad, K. and Esen, A. (1989) A blocking agent and a blocking step are not needed in ELISA, immuno staining dot-blots and western blots. J. Immunol. Methods 117, 141-145. 

The test battery serves as a rapid screening approach to identify an optimal protocol for each antibody-antigen to be tested. The goal is to establish the maximal retrieval level for formalin-masked antigens after undefined fixation times in order to standardize immuno-staining results. In addition, the use of a test battery may identify false-negative or false-positive AR-IHC staining results. 

The specificity of TTF-1 for pulmonary lesions was confirmed by Chang and colleagues. TTF-1 demonstrates cytoplasmic immunostaining of hepatocellular carcinomas in 71% of cases, but no nuclear immuno-staining.2 0... 

Abbona GC, Papotti M, Gasparri G, Bussolati G. Proliferative activity in parathyroid tumors as detected by Ki-67 immuno-staining. Hum Pathol. 1995 26 135-138. 

As known by most surgical pathologists, malignant melanomas may show significant variability in differentiation. Nearly all show immunostaining for S-100 protein and vimentin. Approximately 50% immuno-stain for human melanoma black-45 (HMB-45) antigen. Most stain for pan melanoma antibody. Rare melanomas immunostain for keratin, " which can cause diagnostic confusion. 

Ordonez NG. Value of thyroid transcription factor-1 immuno-staining in distinguishing small cell lung carcinomas from other small cell carcinomas. Am J Surg Pathol. 2000 24 1217-1223. 

Papillary proliferations can be especially challenging. Fortunately, the same cytokeratin patterns of immuno-staining hold up for the differential diagnosis of in situ papillary carcinoma versus florid hyperplasia. ... 

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