Formalin removal from archival tissue by critical point drying

BioTechniques

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 604-611

  Fang, Sheng Guo ^a   Wan, Qiu Hong ^a   Fujihara, Noboru ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; DEHYDRATION; DNA; DRYING; EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

FINGERPRINTING ANALYSIS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

DNA FRAGMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; ALCOHOL; DNA; PRESERVATION SOLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA TEMPLATE; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION; ANIMAL; BEAR; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; FISH; FREEZE DRYING; FROG; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; RAT; REPTILE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FISHES; FORMALDEHYDE; FREEZE DRYING; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLES; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANIDAE; RATS; REPTILES; TISSUE PRESERVATION; URSIDAE;

EID: 0036752146     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/02333rr03     Document Type: Article

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