We developed a method of reducing the background fluorescence of samples made from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded blocks of the brain of the second-trimester human fetuses. For reducing excess background fluorescence, the samples were subjected to photobleaching using an LED lamp with blue and red emission peaks in the range of visible spectrum in a construction of an original design. The decrease in the background autofluorescence was checked by measuring the intensity of the emitted background fluorescence of the samples and relative abundance of immunopositive structures after immunohistochemical staining. It was found that the proposed method reliably reduced the background fluorescence of the samples, which improved the quality of multicolor immunofluorescence images of the cerebral cortex.

Translated title of the contributionМетодика понижения аутофлюоресценции ткани фетального мозга человека и количественная оценка эффекта фотовыцветания
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)100-104
Number of pages5
JournalBulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
Volume171
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2021

    Research areas

  • background fluorescence, photobleaching, FETAL BRAIN INJURY, layer-specific markers of neurons

    Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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