Quantitative infrared spectroscopy of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens: Paraffin wax removal with organic solvents

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 547-552

  Meuse, Curtis W ^a   Barker, Peter E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; FFPE; Formalin fixed paraffin embedded; FTIR; Infrared spectroscopy; Organic extraction; Paraffin removal; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; HEXANE; LIMONENE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PARAFFIN; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXTRACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SPECTRUM; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE SECTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENES;

EID: 74249113389     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e3181a9300e     Document Type: Article

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