Long-term preservation of antigenicity on tissue microarrays

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1071-1078

  DiVito, Kyle A ^a   Charette, Lori A ^a   Rimm, David L ^a   Camp, Robert L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen preservation; Biomarkers; Breast cancer; Immunohistochemistry; Tissue microarray; Tumor markers

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKERATIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NITROGEN; PARAFFIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BREAST CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCORING SYSTEM; STAINING; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SLICE;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; NITROGEN; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 3543141103     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700131     Document Type: Article

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