[Histonet] antibodies for human and bovine collagen type 1

chau0056 chau0056 <@t> umn.edu
Tue Aug 17 13:19:05 CDT 2004


I'm working with collagen matrixes, made of bovine type I dermal collagen.
I am seeding the matrix with Human stromal fibroblast that secrete type I
human collagen in to the matrix. My question is: are there primary
antibodies specific to human and bovine collagen type 1? I have asked a few
companies, and they are not sure about the cross reactivity between the
two.  I suspect that human and bovine collagen are too similar in structure
for me to distinguish between the two with immunofluoresence confocal
microscopy. 

Eric Chau
Dept Mechanical Enginnering 
University of Minnesota





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