Immunocytochemical methods and protocols /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Javois, Lorette C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1994]
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 34.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Antibody preparation
  • Overview of antibody use in immunocytochemistry
  • Purification of antibodies using ammonium sulfate fractionation or gel filtration
  • Purification of antibodies using ion-exchange chromatography
  • Purification of antibodies using affinity chromatography
  • Purification of antibodies using protein A-sepharose and FPLC
  • Conjugation of fluorochromes to antibodies
  • Biotinylation of antibodies
  • Tissue preparation for light microscopic analyses
  • Overview of cell fixation and permeabilization.
  • Preparation of frozen sections for analysis
  • Processing of cell-touch preparations
  • Processing of cytological specimens
  • Processing of tissue-culture cells
  • Processing of tissue specimens
  • Light microscopic detection systems
  • Overview of fluorophores
  • Direct immunofluorescent labeling of cells
  • Fluorescence labeling of surface antigens of attached or suspended tissue-culture cells
  • Fluorescence labeling of intracellular antigens of attached or suspended tissue-culture cells.
  • Fluorescent labeling of surface or intracellular antigens in whole-amounts
  • Overview of antigen detection through enzymatic activity
  • Peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method
  • Avidin-biotin complex (ABC) method
  • Labeled avidin binding (LAB) method
  • Avidin-biotin labeling of cellular antigens in cryostat-sectioned tissue
  • ELISA on attachment-dependent or suspension grown cells
  • Use of immunogold with silver enhancement
  • Fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) analyses
  • Overview of flow cytometry and fluorescent probes for cytometry.
  • Tissue disaggregation
  • Indirect immunofluorescent labeling of viable cells
  • Indirect immunofluorescent labeling of fixed cells
  • Fluorescent labeling of DNA
  • Deparaffinization and processing of pathologic material
  • Assay for phagocytosis
  • Assay for filamentous actin
  • Assay for chemoattractant binding
  • Assay for oxidative metabolism
  • Colloidal gold detection systems for electron microscopic analyses
  • Fixation and embedding
  • Preparation of colloidal gold
  • Conjugation of colloidal gold to proteins.
  • Colloidal gold/streptavidin methods
  • Pre-embedding labeling methods
  • Postembedding labeling methods
  • Photography
  • Overview of fluorescence photomicrography
  • Special applications
  • Overview of fluorescence analysis with the confocal microscope
  • Overview of laser microbeam applications as related to antibody targeting
  • Nucleic acid immunocytochemistry: in situ hybridization to human chromosomes of an alkaline phosphatase-labeled centromeric probe
  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization using whole chromosome library probes.
  • Overview of automated immunostainers
  • Overview of immunocytochemical approaches to the differential diagnosis of tumors: diagnostic applications in the clinical laboratory.