Improvement of nonradioactive DNA in situ hybridization

Biotechnic and Histochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 228-232

  Haas, Christian J ^a,c   Hirschmann, Astrid ^a   Sendelhofert, Andrea ^a   Diebold, Joachim ^a   Arnholdt, Hans ^b   Löhrs, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KZV   (Germany)

^c Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formalin fixed tissue; Microwave pretreatment; Nonradioactive in situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION;

EID: 0031721886     PISSN: 10520295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10520299809141114     Document Type: Article

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