Preliminary comparison of quantity, quality, and microarray performance of RNA extracted from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded, and unfixed frozen tissue samples

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1229-1237

  Scicchitano, Marshall S ^a   Dalmas, Deidre A ^a   Bertiaux, Melissa A ^a   Anderson, Shawn M ^a   Turner, Leah R ^b   Thomas, Roberta A ^a   Mirable, Rossana ^a   Boyce, Rogely W ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b NuGEN Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Affymetrix; Formalin fixed, paraffin embedded; Gene expression; RNA; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 33750310042     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.6A6999.2006     Document Type: Article

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