Adhesion of tissue sections from eleven organs on glass slides with amino group coatings

Hironori Shindo1, Masanori Kuwamori, Makoto Taniguchi

  • 1Graduate School of Human Life Sciences, Mimasaka University, 50 Kitazono-cho, Tsuyama-shi, Okayama 708-8511, Japan.

The adhesion of immunohistochemically stained tissue sections from eleven different organs on microscope slides was compared. Skin, trachea and mammary gland tissue sections heat-treated for antigen retrieval exhibited strong adhesive retention on glass slides coated with self-assembled monolayers containing amino groups at high density.