[Histonet] CD31 on rat brain

[TF]

Just wonder anyone has a suggestion of antibody that works on rat brain? Frozen section and parafin sections?
It would be great if this also works on mice.


2009-03-06 



TF 



发件人： Colleen Forster 
发送时间： 2009-03-06  00:57:29 
收件人： tifei 
抄送： iskaliora; histonet; ΕΛΕΝΗ ΚΟΝΣΟΛΑΚΗ 
主题： Re: [Histonet] staining brain vessels 
 
You have to have a specific CD31 to work on mouse brain. Very few of 
them do.
Colleen Forster
TF wrote:
> hi, CD31 works great
> in my section alpha-SMA also works
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> another way is to perfuse the brain with BSA-rhodamine.
> you will get the fluorescence without the need of staining.
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> 2009-03-05 
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> TF 
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> 发件人： iskaliora 
> 发送时间： 2009-03-05  18:49:11 
> 收件人： histonet 
> 抄送： ΕΛΕΝΗ ΚΟΝΣΟΛΑΚΗ 
> 主题： [Histonet] staining brain vessels 
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> I was wondering if anybody might have an idea with the following  
> problem we are experiencing:  we want to stain for blood vessels in  
> sections of mouse brain.  Our experimental tissues have been fixed  
> overnight in 4% paraformaldehyde and have been sitting in PBS since.   
> We have tried staining with antibodies against desmin, SMA, and  
> collagen but we get NO specific signal.  We recently tried a non-fixed  
> mouse brain and got desmin to work immediately.  The problem is that  
> we need to use the fixed brains because they are our experimental  
> model and it would take too long (2 years to be exact) to generate the  
> same samples.  If anybody has come across such a problem before, or  
> has a specific protocol for vessels that works on PFA fixed brain, we  
> would appreciate the suggestions!
> thanks in advance!
> Irini
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