Immunostaining - Applications of Immunostaining

Applications of Immunostaining

The applications of immunostaining are numerous, but are most typically used in clinical diagnostics and laboratory research.

Clinically, IHC is used in histopathology for the diagnosis of specific types of cancers based on molecular markers.

In laboratory science, immunostaining can be used for a variety of applications based on investigating the presence or absence of a protein, its tissue distribution, its sub-cellular localisation, and or changes in protein expression or degradation.

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