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peroblems with chemiluminescent detection on films - (Apr/17/2008 )

Hello,
I have problem with chemiluminescent detection on X-ray films. I can't get signal on the film but I can see it on the membrane. We use nitrocelulose membrane for transfer, AGFA blue films and universal developer and fixer, also we use Roche Lumi-Light substrate and I never had any problems with detection till now. I don' know what to do, I tried differnt exposition time from 2 min till over night. Also I tried longer incubation in luminol and it doesn't help.
Has anyone got the clue what could be wrong?

Thanks

-lidek-

Hi there,
I had the same problem with those AGFA films. With some proteins they seem to be really insensitive.
Do you have a positive control on your membrane so you can exclude that that the problem might be the film?

-HerrvonBoedefeld-

QUOTE (lidek @ Apr 17 2008, 03:57 AM)
Hello,
I have problem with chemiluminescent detection on X-ray films. I can't get signal on the film but I can see it on the membrane. We use nitrocelulose membrane for transfer, AGFA blue films and universal developer and fixer, also we use Roche Lumi-Light substrate and I never had any problems with detection till now. I don' know what to do, I tried differnt exposition time from 2 min till over night. Also I tried longer incubation in luminol and it doesn't help.
Has anyone got the clue what could be wrong?

Thanks


you may sensitize your films by flash lightning, or use more sensitive film material, f.i. from Amersham/GE (Hyperfilm)

-The Bearer-