Theory and practice of combining coagulant fixation and microwave histoprocessing

Biotechnic and Histochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 261-277

  Boon, Mathilde E ^a   Kok, L P ^b  

^a LEIDEN CYTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Coagulant fixatives; DNA; Formalin; Immunostaining; Molecular techniques; Preservation

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; EOSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; MACROGOL; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN;

ACIDITY; ANTIBODY LABELING; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CROSS LINKING; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBEDDING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FROZEN SECTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; SKIN BIOPSY; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; RNA; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 58049103314     PISSN: 10520295     EISSN: 14737760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10520290802553476     Document Type: Article

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