Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA using ligation-dependent polymerase chain reaction in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded liver tissues

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1485-1491

  Park, Young Nyun ^a   Abe, Kenji ^b   Li, Hongbo ^a   Hsuih, Terence ^a   Thung, Swan N ^a   Zhang, David Y ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; LIGASE; PARAFFIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FIXATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0345434243     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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