Real-time PCR analysis of RNA extracted from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embeded tissues: Effects of the fixation on outcome reliability

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 338-342

  Castiglione, Francesca ^a   Degl'Innocenti, Duccio Rossi ^a   Taddei, Antonio ^a   Garbini, Francesca ^a   Buccoliero, Anna Maria ^a   Raspollini, Maria Rosaria ^a   Pepi, Monica ^a   Paglierani, Milena ^a   Asirelli, Grazia ^a   Freschi, Giancarlo ^a   Bechi, Paolo ^a   Taddei, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extracted; Formalin fixed; Real time PCR; RNA

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE;

FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 34548285981     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pai.0000213119.81343.7b     Document Type: Article

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