Table 1.
List of Monoclonal Antibodies and Their Target Antigens Used for Immunostaining and Immunofluorescence
Antibody | Supplier | Conditions | Target antigen |
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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.