Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
... permeabilize a sample. But you can also use organic solvents after fixing your sample with a cross-linker...the point?
Fixation allows you to freeze your samples in a given state or point in time. You want to ...processes while maintaining the structure of your samples, the relationships between cellular components,... molecules and it is great for preserving your samples and maintaining cellular and tissue morphology....formaldehyde solutions.
Along with preserving your sample, cross-linking can block the epitope of some targets...sensitive to cross-linking, but it doesn’t preserve sample structure quite as well as a cross-linker. This...during fixation with these chemicals, which impacts sample structure and could also cause your target to be...