[Histonet] Citrate Buffer pH

[Patsy Ruegg]

Has anybody tried the AR reagents that deparaffinzed such as BioCare
Decloaker in a steamer in place of the pressure cooker?  PC is too harsh for
some of my stuff but I like using these retrieval/deparaffination reagents.
Patsy

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I've been using a product from Biocare, a Universal Decloaker (6.0 citrate
buffer) , which deparaffinizes during HIER in their pressure cooker
(Decloaking Chamber) - they are a very Trekkie oriented company.  It works
great - saves a bunch o' steps.  You might try contacting them for the
specifics.  I don't think about the nature of these things if they work - I
just follow along blindly . . . . . . . . .sometimes.

Jacqueline M. O'Connor HT(ASCP)
Abbott Laboratories
Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Discovery Chemotheraputics




Pat Flannery <pjfnefro <@t> duke.edu>
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I have a procedure for deparaffinizing (their word, not mine) tissue
sections in order to do immunostaining using the Vector MOM kit.  It
calls for heating the section (briefly) in a microwave in 0.1M Citrate
Buffer.  The procedure  does not specify the pH of the buffer, just to
make it by mixing 0.1M NaCitrate and 0.1M citric acid.  Does this sound
familiar to anyone out there?

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