Microwave-assisted antigen retrieval and incubation with cox-2 antibody of archival paraffin-embedded human oligodendroglioma and astrocytomas

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 154-160

  Temel, Sehime G ^a   Minbay, F Zehra ^a   Kahveci, Zeynep ^a   Jennes, Lothar ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Cox 2; Microwave; Oligodendroglioma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 ANTIBODY; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVES; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING;

EID: 33747167661     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.02.025     Document Type: Article

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