The SHIELD kit provides optimal tissue preservation by stabilizing molecular features & tissue architecture with flexible epoxide bonds.
Published by Park et al. in Nature Biotechnology 2018, our SHIELD reagent (AKA GE38) safeguards endogenous fluorescence, protein antigenicity, nucleic acids, and overall tissue architecture against physical and chemical stressors. The SHIELD tissue preservation method also protects tissue during fluorescent protein imaging and antibody labeling across multiple rounds.
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Our streamlined protocol takes just 4-6 days, without the variability of tissue embedding via hydrogel or paraffin. Reagents are non-toxic and can be easily disposed of after use.
250 mL: Preserves 25 whole mouse brains or comparably sized samples.
500 mL: Preserves 50 whole mouse brains or comparably sized samples.
Wenqiang Chen, Qian Huang, Ekaterina Katie Lazdon, Antonio Gomes, Marisa Wong, Emily Stephens, Tabitha Grace Royal, Dan Frenkel, Weikang Cai, C. Ronald Kahn
Claire N. Bedbrook, Ravi D. Nath, Rahul Nagvekar, Karl Deisseroth, Anne Brunet
Mehwish Anwer, Jeffrey LeDue, Zefang Wang, Sarah Wang, Wai Hang Cheng, Mariia Burdyniuk, Honor Cheung, Jianjia Fan, Carlos Barron, Peter A. Cripton, Mark S. Cembrowski, Fabio Rossi, Timothy H. Murphy, Cheryl L. Wellington
The SHIELD kit provides optimal tissue preservation by stabilizing molecular features & tissue architecture with flexible epoxide bonds.
Without SHIELD preservation, many tissue clearing techniques can lead to significant sample degradation and loss of biomolecular information.
Immunohistochemistry methods are laborious, error-prone, and expensive – intact tissue processing technologies resolve many of these issues.