What Can Immunohistochemistry Do
Immunohistochemistry is a fabulous technique, which has numerous advantages and applications:
High sensitivity, high specificity, can be used on routinely processed tissue as well as with previously stained material, decalcified material can be used, all fixatives with the exception of a few can be used with immunohistochemistry, immunohistochemistry can be adapted to electron miscroscopy, andit can remove and replace the need for many stains.
The quick labeling method, which is approximately less than 10 minutes, was developed to assit pathologists in assessing sentinel lymph nodes during intraoperative assessment.
The sausage tissue block antibody testing method allows one to evaluate hundreds of tissue samples on a single slide with a drop of antibody. This method subsequently was used to form tissue microarrays. It was developed by Battifora.