Abstract
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) enables the detection and distribution of proteins in cells of tissues. IHC has become an indispensable approach for studying oxygen sensing by the carotid body (CB). This chapter provides a detailed description of IHC of CB tissue and isolated CB cells.
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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant PO1-HL-90554.
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Nanduri, J., Prabhakar, N.R. (2018). Immunohistochemistry of the Carotid Body. In: Huang, L. (eds) Hypoxia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1742. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7665-2_14
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