Multispectral Staining and Analysis of Extracellular Matrix.

Methods Mol Biol

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

Published: January 2022


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Multiplexed immunofluorescent (IF) techniques enable the detection of multiple antigens within the same sample and are therefore useful in situations where samples are rare or small in size. Similar to standard IF, multiplexed IF yields information on both the location and relative amount of detected antigens. While this method has been used primarily to detail cell phenotypes, we have recently adapted it to profile the extracellular matrix (ECM), which provides technical challenges due to autofluorescence and spatial overlap. This chapter details the planning, execution, optimization, and troubleshooting to use multiplexed IF to profile the ECM of human fallopian tube tissue.

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