Table 1.
Antibody (clone) | Specificity | Source |
AE5 | Cytokeratin 3 | Serotec, Oxford, UK |
K4.62 | Cytokeratin 19 | Sigma Immunochemicals |
V9 | Vimentin | Sigma Immunochemicals |
Polyclonal | Connexin 43 | Zymed Laboratories, SanFrancisco, USA |
MIB1 | Ki67 | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
7JUL | p63 | Novocastra laboratories, Newcastle, UK |
ICR10 | Epidermal growth factor receptor | Serotec, Oxford, UK |
NA1/34 | CD 1a (Langerhans cells) | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
Q BEND/10 | CD 34 | Novocastra laboratories, Newcastle, UK |
DAK A3 | Chromogranin | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
Polyclonal | Synaptophysin | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
HMB 45 | Melanocytes | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
2BH PD7/26 | Leucocyte common antigen | Dako, Cambridge, UK |
*Antibodies to chromogranin, synaptophysin, melanocytes, and the leucocyte common antigen were employed to detect any unexpected expansion of other indigenous cells at the limbus.
(α Enolase was a kind gift from Professor J D Zieske, Schepens Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA.)