SGLT2, Abcam, ab37296

We share a literature review of commercially available SGLT2 antibodies evaluated by immunohistochemistry and western blotting using kidneys and hearts from WT and SGLT2 deficient mice and rats. Antibody specificity was also evaluated in human kidney (Hirose et al., Hypertension, 2026). The authors perform a head-to-head screen of a panel of eight commercial SGLT2 antibodies.
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The antibody ab37296 showed unspecific immunostaining in kidney sections from WT mice and rats (Figure 1) with similar staining observed in WT compared to Sglt2-/- sections from mouse and rat. Furthermore, western blotting with this antibody resulted in several unspecific bands using mouse and rat kidney homogenates as samples. These bands were also present in Sglt2-/- samples (Figure 4).