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Surface Staining and Methanol Fixation - (Mar/24/2010 )

Is it feasible to stain for a surface antigen, then fix the cells with methanol and subsequently stain for an intracellular antigen?
I have done with commercial fix & perm solutions, but never with methanol and in the datasheet of the intracellular antibody they say cells should be fixed with this

-canotto-

Ethanol and methanol fixation (for DNA content?) is not compartible with surface staining.

-Denis Baev-