Nucleic acid quality preservation by an alcohol-based fixative: Comparison with frozen tumors in a routine pathology setting

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-62

  Hostein, Isabelle ^a   Stock, Nathalie ^a   Soubeyran, Isabelle ^a   Marty, Marion ^a   De Mascarel, Isabelle ^a   Bui, Mathieu ^a   Geneste, Gaëlle ^a   Petersen, Marie Claude ^a   Coindre, Jean Michel ^a   MacGrogan, Gaëtan ^a  

^a INSTITUT BERGONIÉ   (France)

Author keywords

alcohol based fixative; nucleic acid preservation; paraffin embedded tissue; tissue fixation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ALCOHOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FREEZING; HUMANS; RNA, NEOPLASM; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 79952120614     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PDM.0b013e3181e71ba5     Document Type: Article

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