Electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. Silver enhancement of colloidal gold marker allows double labeling with the same primary antibody.

Abstract

Electron microscopic sections, immunocytochemically labeled with colloidal gold, can be prepared for double labeling by applying the "EM-silver enhancement" procedure. This method, a photographic, so-called physical, development, increases the size of the gold marker to a predeterminable value and thereby inactivates the anti-species antibody present on the gold grain, thus allowing the labeling of a second antigen with antibody raised in the same species.