ASSESSMENT OF SPECIFICITY OF ANTISERA FOR IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY (<Symposium II>Immuno-Histochemistry and Cytochemistry)

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The problem of specificity of antisera is one of the most important points in immunohistochemistry as well as in radioimmunoassay (RIA). However, the evaluatilon about specificity required in these two methods are quite different. In immunohistochemical staining, antisera which can never be used in RIA have been successefully employed. For example, anti-hCG was used for staining rat pituitary LH cells, and anti-mammalian LHRH was used for staining avian hypothalamus. On the other hand, very useful antisera for RIA are often eliminated in immunohistochemistry because of poor specificity. Such different evaluation is understandable if we compare the principles of these methods. The principle of RIA is the competitive binding, while inmunohistochemistry based on the non-competitive binding where substances with very low affinities to the antibody can be bound if the concentration of antibody is satisfactorily high. In immunohistochemistry, the coexistence of antibodies to substances other than target antigen is very significant, while in RIA only the crossreactivity is inportant, and the competitive binding test gives no information about that. So, the evaluation of the antiserum in inmunohistochemistry should be carried out using the non-competitive binding test which is based on the same principle to that of immunohistochemistry, and the results shonld be compared with those obtained with the competitive binding test which gives important information about the differencc of the affinity constants of crossreacting substanccs.
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ASSESSMENT OF SPECIFICITY OF ANTISERA FOR IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY (<Symposium II>Immuno-Histochemistry and Cytochemistry)

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