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Mark Haynes mark.haynes at mail.tju.edu
Wed Feb 27 10:41:23 EST 2002


what species areyou using?
what do you mean all the blood cells stain--in vasculature, red cells,
lymphocytes?
have you done a titration of the secondary Abs?

""Dr. Douglas Darling"" <douglas.darling at louisville.edu> wrote in message
news:3C7CDA5A.445823A3 at louisville.edu...
> I am using an FITC-conjugated secondary antibody on histological
> sections of mouse embryos.  We get great labeling with our primary
> antiserum.  However, all the blood cells also label.  The blood cells
> fluoresce brightly even when no primary antibody is used.  I use 10%
> serum-0.1% triton to block.  There is obviously some non-specific
> binding of the secondary Ab-FITC to the blood cells.  I tried 4
> different secondary Ab conjugated to either FITC or TRITC.  HOW CAN I
> BLOCK THIS???
>
> ---





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