Practical aspects of planning, building, and interpreting tissue microarrays: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource experience

Journal of Molecular Histology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-121

  Kajdacsy Balla, A ^a   Geynisman, J M ^a   Macias, V ^a   Setty, S ^a   Nanaji, N M ^a   Berman, J J ^b   Dobbin, K ^b   Melamed, J ^c   Kong, X ^c   Bosland, M ^c   Orenstein, J ^d   Bayerl, J ^d   Becich, M J ^e   Dhir, R ^e   Datta, M W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Immunohistochemistry; Prostate cancer; Tissue microarrays

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PARAFFIN;

CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; THICKNESS; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR BIOPSY; X RAY FILM;

ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 34247482686     PISSN: 15672379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10735-006-9054-5     Document Type: Review

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