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Table 1 Immunohistochemistry panel: specificity, positive control, dilution and result for each antibody used for analyses

From: Fatal haemorrhage and neoplastic thrombosis in a captive African lion (Panthera leo) with metastatic testicular sex cord–stromal tumour

Primary antibody

Antibody specificity

Positive control

Dilution

Result

Vimentin

Clone V9 (Invitrogen®)

Internal (mesenchymal cells; fibroblasts lion)

1:2000/1500

(+)

S100

Polyclonal (Dako®)

Human intestine and tiger intestine (neural plexus)

1:5000

(+)

PLAP

Clone 8A9 (Dako®)

Human and tiger testicle (placental alkaline phosphatase in germ cells)

1:200

(−)

Inhibin

Clone Bc/R1 (Biocare®)

Human and tiger testicle (stromal and sex cord cells)

1:200

NI

Cytokeratin AE1 + AE3

Clone Isotyp IgG1 (Biocare®)

Human intestine and tiger intestine (epithelium)

1:1000

(−)

cKit/CD117

Clone YR145 (Cell Marque®)

Skin metastasis of human gastrointestinal stromal tumour and lion skin (cutaneous mastocytes)

1:500

(−)

Ki67

Clone MIB-1 (Dako®)

Human tonsil (tonsillar epithelium) and tiger intestine (epithelium)

1:100

NI

  1. NI no-immunoreactivity