Impact of formalin-fixation and paraffin-embedding on the ratio between mRNA copy numbers of differently expressed genes

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-188

  Von Smolinski, Dorthe ^a   Leverkoehne, Ina ^a   Von Samson Himmelstjerna, Georg ^a   Gruber, Achim D ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formalin fixation; Paraffin embedding; Quantitative gene expression; Real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; PARAFFIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; HEART; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE FIXATION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 26444511083     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0013-0     Document Type: Article

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