Detection of tyrosinase mRNA in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded archival sections of melanoma, using the reverse transcriptase in situ polymerase chain reaction

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-15

  Guo, Jing ^a   Cheng, Lorna ^a   Wen, Duan Ren ^a   Huang, Rong Rong ^a   Cochran, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Formalin fixed; In situ polymerase chain reaction; Melanoma; Paraffin embedded; Reverse transcriptase; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN CANCER; THYROID ADENOMA; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0031832506     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199802000-00003     Document Type: Article

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