Method to make paraffin-embedded breast and lymph tissue mimic fresh tissue in DNA analysis

Communications in Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 166-171

  Overton, W Roy ^a,c   Catalano, Edison ^b   McCoy Jr , J Philip ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

^c Flow Cytometry Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Flow cytometry; Formalin fixation; Paraffin; Propidium iodide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

ANEUPLOIDY; BREAST; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DNA; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TRYPSIN;

EID: 0029977695     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19960615)26:2<166::AID-CYTO11>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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