You could do that or you could use DAB for one antibody ("brownish" color), followed by DAB + Nickel for the other ("bluish" color) and they are both permanent and alcohol resistant. René J.
--- On Tue, 4/12/11, Eva Permaul <e...@georgetown.edu> wrote: From: Eva Permaul <e...@georgetown.edu> Subject: [Histonet] Counterstain for dual chromogenic To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 11:37 AM Good morning, I have been attempting to do some dual chromogenic staining. I am using a mouse and a rabbit antibody. For the mouse antibody I am using an HRP-mouse secondary followed by AEC for visualization. For the rabbit antibody I am using a biotinylated rabbit secondary, followed by ABC-AP and vector blue. My problem is what to use as a counterstain. From everything I have read so far there isn't one that would work without having some problems. I was thinking of trying a very light Hematoxylin and see if it doesn't disrupt the vector blue visualization too much. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks, Eva _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet