PolyA PCR amplification of cDNA from RNA extracted from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 144-150

  Byers, Richard ^a   Roebuck, Jamie ^a   Sakhinia, Ebrahim ^a   Hoyland, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formalin fixation; mRNA; Paraffin embedded; PolyA RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CD33 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN; POLYADENYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ONCOGENE C MYB; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA EXTRACTION;

ADENOSINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

EID: 4344681147     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pdm.0000133154.73846.66     Document Type: Article

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