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. 1950 Jan 1;91(1):1–13. doi: 10.1084/jem.91.1.1

LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN IN TISSUE CELLS

II. IMPROVEMENTS IN A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF ANTIGEN BY MEANS OF FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY

Albert H Coons 1, Melvin H Kaplan 1
PMCID: PMC2135948  PMID: 15395569

Abstract

Improvements in a method for the specific microscopic localization of antigen in tissue cells are described. This method employs antibody labelled with fluorescein isocyanate as a histochemical stain, the specific antigen-antibody precipitate being made visible under the fluorescence microscope. Two isomeric series derived from nitrofluorescein are described.

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