Optimisation of postmortem tissue preservation and alternative protocol for serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms amplification in SIDS and SIUD cases

Experimental and Molecular Pathology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 202-205

  Casale, Valentina ^a   Oneda, Roberta ^a   Lavezzi, Anna Maria ^a   Matturri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Postmortem tissues preservation; Serotonin transporter gene promoter; SIDS; SIUD

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; FORMALDEHYDE; NUCLEIC ACID; PARAFFIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMBEDDING; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA EXTRACTION; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

AUTOPSY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FETAL DEATH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 74749108556     PISSN: 00144800     EISSN: 10960945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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