Micrograph of a GFAP immunostained section of a brain tumour. In biochemistry,<unk>  is any use of an antibody-based method to detect a specific protein in a sample. The term<unk> " was originally used to refer to the immunohistochemical staining of tissue sections, as first described by Albert Coons in 1941. However,<unk>  now encompasses a broad range of techniques used in histology, cell biology, and molecular biology that use antibody-based staining methods.
Immunostaining
Immunohistochemistry
Immunofluorescence
Immunolabeling
Tissue typing
Immunophenotyping
Immunopathology
HPS stain