An agarose matrix facilitates sectioning of tissue microarray blocks

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-24

  Yan, Pu ^a   Seelentag, Walter ^a   Bachmann, Astrid ^a   Bosman, Fred T ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agarose paraffin block; Immunohistochemistry; Tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PARAFFIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE SECTION;

HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KERATIN-6; KERATIN-7; MICROTOMY; PARAFFIN; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SEPHAROSE; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 33845920937     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.6A6987.2006     Document Type: Article

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