Effects of formalin fixation, paraffin embedding, and time of storage on DNA preservation in brain tissue: A brainnet Europe study

Brain Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-303

  Ferrer, Isidre ^a   Armstrong, Judith ^a   Capellari, Sabina ^b   Parchi, Piero ^b   Arzberger, Thomas ^c   Bell, Jeanne ^d   Budka, Herbert ^e   Ströbel, Thomas ^e   Giaccone, Giorgio ^f   Rossi, Giacomina ^f   Bogdanovic, Nenad ^g   Fakai, Peter ^h   Schmitt, Andrea ^h   Riederers, Peter ⁱ   Al Sarraj, Safa ^j   Ravid, Rivka ^k   Kretzschmar, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^j KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k NETHERLANDS BRAIN BANK   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FROZEN SECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POINT MUTATION; PRION DISEASE; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

BRAIN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; EUROPE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 34347249613     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2007.00073.x     Document Type: Article

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