Abstract
Aptamers are proving to be exceedingly effective in a number of applications. Given the disadvantages of antibodies, such as batch-to-batch variation and cross-reactivity, aptamers have the potential to revolutionize the field of histopathology due to their high specificity and the ease of their synthesis and modification. Here, we describe a chromogenic staining method for paraffin-embedded tissue sections with FITC-labeled aptamers.
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Shigdar, S., Lv, L., Wang, L., Duan, W. (2016). Application of Aptamers in Histopathology. In: Mayer, G. (eds) Nucleic Acid Aptamers. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1380. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3197-2_16
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