After de-paraffinization of sections, the slides were autoclaved in 0.1M sodium citrate pH 6 for antigen retrieval step (30 (link)). The slides were allowed to cool and washed with PBS twice times. Slides were incubated with 5% normal serum depending upon the source of secondary antibody used. The slides were incubated with primary antibodies at 4°C overnight (HSP70, 8-oxoguanine p-JNK, COX2, GFAP) from Santa Cruz Biotechnology at 1:100 dilution. Next morning, after washing with PBS, fluorescent labeled secondary antibodies (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) as 1:50 dilution were used for signal amplification in dark chamber, followed by mounted with UltraCruz mounting medium (Santa Cruz Biotechnology). The slides were pictured with confocal scanning microscopes (Flouview FV 1000, Olympus, Japan) and fluorescence intensity was quantitatively analyzed by ImageJ and expressed as the relative integrated density of the samples relative to the sham.
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