Great for Free-Floating Immunofluorescence of Rat Brain Tissue

Neurosciences
ICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Minho
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Company:

BD Biosciences

Product Name:

Purified Mouse Anti-Rat CD11b/c

Catalog Number:

550299

Clone Number:

N/A

Currently we are making an assessment of the microglial response in several areas of the basal ganglia following the induction of a pharmacological model of Parkinson´s Disease.We employed this antibody, to perform both characterization of the cell densities as well as fluorescence intensity and morphometrical analysis.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Applications

Immunofluorescence

Sample

Brain Tissue, PFA fixed, Vibratome processed

Primary Incubation

1:50 dilution with 12 hours incubation at 4ºC under agitation.

Blocking Agent

10%NGS in PBS-Triton 0.5% for 1,5 hours

Secondary Incubation

Alexa Fluor 488, 1:1000 for 2 hours

Tertiary Incubation

not required

Detection

Confocal Microscopy

Results Summary

We were able to evidence, intense microglial morphological change in the ipsilateral side (drug-treated) animals.In addition, cell number increased significantly and focally at substantia nigra pars compacta and reticulata.Our treatment paradigms reduced such microglial responses.

DOI or PMID #

N/A

Additional Notes

Study not yet published

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Summary

The Good

Good signal with relative low requirement for optimization

The Bad

Signal to noise ratio could be better

The Bottom Line

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