Extended Application of Antigen Retrieval Technique in Immunohistochemistry and in SITU Hybridization

Antigen Retrieval Immunohistochemistry Based Research and Diagnostics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 25-45

  Shi, Shan Rong ^a   Taylor, Clive R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopting AR pretreated frozen tissue for IHC micrometastasis detection in sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer; AR utility for IHC detection of cell marker proliferation; Extended application of antigen retrieval (AR) technique in immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650814896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470875612.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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