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Simplifying Multiplex IHC Panel Design for Spatial Biology

In spatial biology, multiplexing in immunohistochemistry (IHC) enables the simultaneous detection of multiple biomarkers within a single tissue section. This unravels insights into how cellular interactions influence the tissue microenvironment, deepening our understanding of disease progression and therapeutic responses.

SignalStar™ Multiplex IHC is a technology that uses antibodies, oligonucleotides, and fluorophores to interrogate cellular presence, location, function, and biomarker co-expression patterns. Multiple biomarkers can be amplified simultaneously in FFPE tissue with high sensitivity and specificity, providing results for up to eight biomarkers in two days.

You Don’t Need to Be a Spatial Expert

SignalStar mIHC panels combine CST scientific expertise, our high-quality antibodies, and rigorous validation into an easy-to-use solution that enables you to generate multiplex spatial images and deepen your understanding of biology, even when you’re not a spatial expert. So you can easily design experiments and get answers to your most pressing scientific questions—fast.

  • Our automated SignalStar Multiplex IHC Panel Builder eliminates all the guesswork with panel design, letting you focus on results instead.
  • CST validates and optimizes all panels for mIHC—so you don’t have to.
  • Panels work out of the box, and on your existing fluorescent imaging instrumentation.
  • Detect multiple up to 8 human or mouse biomarkers in 2 days—even those with low levels of expression.
  • If your research needs change, it’s easy to redesign panels.

You can design a SignalStar mIHC panel specific to your needs, or reference human-reactive and mouse-reactive multiplex IHC panel designs curated by CST scientists.

Click on the panels below to learn more.

Human-Reactive Panels

Mouse-Reactive Panels

Human Reactive Panels

Human Tumor Immune Microenvironment Panel

Detect immune cell types in a human tumor microenvironment (TME).

Biomarker

Relevance

Pan-Keratin

Epithelium (identifies tumor cells)

CD3

All T cells

CD4

Helper T cells

CD8

Cytotoxic T cells

FoxP3

Regulatory T cells

CD68

Macrophages

CD11c

Dendritic cells

CD20

B cells

Human T Cell Exhaustion Panel

Gain a comprehensive understanding of T cell dynamics within the TME.

Biomarker

Relevance

Granzyme B

Cytotoxic potential of T cells

CD3

All T cells

CD8

Cytotoxic T cells

CD4

Helper T cells

PD-1

Stem-like T cells, exhausted T cells

TIM3

Exhausted T cells

LAG3

Exhausted T cells

TCF1

Stem-like T cells

Learn More & View Key Features

Human Myeloid Cell Function Panel

Observe myeloid cells and relevant functional markers.

Biomarker

Relevance

CD11b

Myeloid cells

CD11c

M1-polarized macrophage

CD68

Macrophages

CD206

M2-polarized macrophage

CD163

M2-polarized macrophage

HLA-DRA

M1-polarized macrophage

XCR1

Conventional DC1 (CD8 T cell antigen)

CD86

M1-polarized macrophage

Mouse Reactive Panels

Mouse Tumor Immune Microenvironment Panel

Gain detailed insights into immune cell infiltration versus immune exclusion within the TME.

Biomarker

Relevance

Pan-Keratin

Epithelium (identifies tumor cells)

CD3

All T cells

CD8

Cytotoxic T cells

FoxP3

Regulatory T cells

F4/80

Macrophages

CD11b

Myeloid cells

Ly6G

Neutrophils and MDSCs (myeloid-derived suppressor cells)

CD19

B cells

Learn More & View Key Features

Mouse Myeloid Cell Function Panel

Observe myeloid cells and relevant functional markers.

Biomarker

Relevance

CD11b

Myeloid cells

F4/80

Macrophages

CD206

M2-polarized macrophage

CD86

M1-polarized macrophage

Arginase

M2-polarized macrophage

Ly6G

Neutrophils and polymorphonuclear MDSCs

SIRPɑ

Macrophage inhibitory receptor

Technical Support

Visit the Technical Support page to search for troubleshooting information and answers to technical questions.

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U.S. Patent No. 10,781,477, foreign equivalents, and child patents deriving therefrom.