Effect of microwave oven heating times on androgen receptor antigen retrieval from paraffin-embedded prostatic adenocarcinoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5 A, 1996, Pages 2931-2936

  Magi Galluzzi, Cristina ^a   Montironi, Rodolfo ^b   Preter, Elisabetta ^b   Kwan, Paul W L ^a   Delellis, Ronald A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Antigen retrieval; Citrate buffer; Immunohistochemistry; Microwave; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029862479     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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