Igor. A few years back I used Dako V9 mouse anti human vimentin to label human grafts in a mouse background. Tested it first on several mouse tissues and got no reactivity, compared to very strong reactivity in a variety of cell types in human tissue, and so am sure that it is human specific cf mouse. I used the Dako ARK to get around the mouse-on-mouse background issues and was happy with the staining obtained (although not quite as sensitive perhaps as a standard, LSAB method). I am actually about to try this again myself very soon. I used citrate AR and primary at 1:800 for my staining.
Cheers, Jason Palmer Histology Laboratory Coordinator Bernard O'Brien Institute 42 Fitzroy St, Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia tel +61 3 9288 4018 fax +61 3 9416 0926 email: jason.pal...@svhm.org.au ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:03:47 -0400 From: Igor Deyneko <igor.deyn...@gmail.com> Subject: [Histonet] Human VIMENTIN and SMA IHC To: Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: <35e16a770907141203h14ccc18bt2e3123d11c478...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Histonetters! I am wondering if anyone can possibly advise good antibodies for HUMAN anti alpha SMA and Vimentin. I'm working with xenografts, human tumors with mouse stroma and in the past had a lot of cross reactivity and background issues. Does anyone know good antibodies or a clone, or has a good protocol for either??? All would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Igor Deyneko Infinity Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA Disclaimer : The contents of this e-mail including any attachments are intended only for the person or entity to which this e-mail is addressed and may contain confidential, privileged and/or commercially sensitive material. If you are not, or believe you may not be, the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet