The present disclosure relates to novel bis-maleic anhydrides and to the surprising discovery that bis-maleic anhydride cross-linking agents can be used for preservation/fixation of a cell or tissue sample. Various bis-maleic anhydride cross-linking agent scan be used in methods requiring fixation of a cell or tissue sample. These reagents and methods are especially useful in procedures that require that the fixation agent be removed in order to facilitate analysis with other reagents. The inventive reagents and methods make it easier to reliably assay for various proteins, a nucleic acid and the like using analytical methods such as like immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization, RT-PCR, and the like.
本公开涉及新型的双
马来酸酐以及令人惊讶的发现,即双
马来酸酐交联剂可用于细胞或组织样本的保护/固定。各种双
马来酸酐交联剂可用于需要固定细胞或组织样本的方法中。这些试剂和方法在需要去除固定剂以便使用其他试剂进行分析的程序中特别有用。创新的试剂和方法使得使用诸如免疫组织
化学、原位荧光杂交、RT-PCR等分析方法更容易可靠地检测各种蛋白质、核酸等。