Influence of storage temperature and high-temperature antigen retrieval buffers on results of immunohistochemical staining in sections stored for long periods

Applied Immunohistochemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 209-213

  Grabau, Dorthe A ^a,b   Nielsen, Ole ^a   Hansen, Steinbjørn ^a   Nielsen, Mette M ^a   Lænkholm, Anne Vibeke ^a   Knoop, Ann ^a   Pfeiffer, Per ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Oncological Research Centre   (Denmark)

Author keywords

High temperature antigen retrieval; Immunohistochemistry; Paraffin embedding; Storage time

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0031786330     PISSN: 10623345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00022744-199812000-00006     Document Type: Article

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