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. 2009 Apr 30;15(10):2875–2887. doi: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0494

Table 1.

List of Monoclonal Antibodies and Their Target Antigens Used for Immunostaining and Immunofluorescence

Antibody Supplier Conditions Target antigen
UEA-1 lectin Vector Laboratories (Burlingame, CA) Heat induced temperature retrieval, 1:300 dilution for 1 h Human EC (does not stain rat EC)
ED1 (MCA341) and ED2 (MCA342) AbD Serotec (Raleigh, NC) 1% pepsin pretreatment, 1:600 for 1 h Rat macrophages and monocytes (does not stain human cells)
vWf (CL20176A-R) Cedarlane (Burlington, Canada) After UEA-1 application, 1:5000 overnight Rat EC and platelets (does not stain human cells)
SMA (AB5694) Abcam (Cambridge, MA) After UEA-1 application, 1:1000 overnight Rat smooth muscle cells (does not stain rat EC)
TUNEL assay (DNA polymerase 1 large [Klenow] fragment, dATP, dCTP, dGTP, and Bio-11-dUTP) Promega (Nepean, Canada) 1% pepsin pretreatment, cocktail applied for 1 h at 37°C Apoptotic cells (stains fragmented DNA of both rat and human cells)

UEA-1, Ulex Europaeus Agglutinin I; vWF, von Willebrand factor; SMA, smooth muscle α-actin.