Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Systemic Administration of Abeta mAb Reduces Retinal Deposition of Abeta and Activated Complement C3 in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Mouse Model
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065518
Figure Lengend Snippet: Log scored means +/− SE for Amyloid β (4G8+, blue) and complement C3 (C3+, red, detected with rabbit anti-rat polyclonal Ab to total C3, Hycult, HP80222, ), deposition in retinal sections after 3 months of dosing with: (i) 6F6, [solid bars]; (ii) IgG, IgG2A isotype specific negative control Ab, [open bars], at 600 µg weekly doses. Group sizes, n = numbers of eyes treated, are marked at the base of the bars in parentheses. Differences of **p = 0.0232, for Amyloid β deposition and of *p = 0.0414 for C3 deposition were noted comparing 6F6 treated with IgG2A control. See SI .
Article Snippet: Although the same primary antibody was used for the detection of Aβ deposition as in the remainder of the study, (4G8, ), this was biotin-labelled and detected with Alexa Fluor 488 streptavidin, and a different primary antibody was used to detect total C3, (Hycult biotech, cat# HP8022) a rabbit polyclonal anti-Rat C3 antibody which gave low background for IHC staining, (data from this study is described solely in the final part of the Results section and was the only occasion that the antibody combination described above was used in this work).
Techniques: Negative Control