Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Carnoy's fixative improves the immunohistochemistry of the proteinase K-resistant prion protein

Brain Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-37

  Giaccone, Giorgio ^a   Canciani, Barbara ^a   Puoti, Gianfranco ^a   Rossi, Giacomina ^a   Goffredo, Donato ^a   Iussich, Selina ^a   Fociani, Paolo ^b   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^a   Bugiani, Orso ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CHLOROFORM; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACID; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; TISSUE PREPARATION;

EID: 0033972393     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2000.tb00240.x     Document Type: Article

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