Re: [Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue

2010-03-18 Thread Merced M Leiker
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Re: [Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Shivers
Y MATHIS" To: "histonet" Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:15 PM Subject: [Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue I work with some porcine tissues and it is sometimes difficult to find antibodies specific to pig. A doctor I work with asked some one he knew in Europe about

Re: [Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue

2010-03-18 Thread Alexandra Meinl
I work on porcine tissue regularly and I can't confirm the 10%. Maybe I accidentially used only the highly conserved proteins, I didn't check on that. But I usually try anti-human antibodies and most of the time they work really well! Alexandra Dr

Re: [Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue

2010-03-17 Thread Adam .
I routine use anti-human antibodies to stain mouse tissue, so it can be done. It completely depends on the antigen they used to immunize. If the human and pig proteins are highly homologous or identical, then it has a good chance of working. If they're not, you're in uncharted territories. If you a

[Histonet] Anti-human abs work on porcine tissue

2010-03-17 Thread RICKY MATHIS
I work with some porcine tissues and it is sometimes difficult to find antibodies specific to pig.  A doctor I work with asked some one he knew in Europe about using antibodies that are listed as working in human being used on porcine tissue.  This person stated that there would be about a 10% c