Transcriptional profiling and genotyping of degraded nucleic acids from autopsy tissue samples after prolonged formalin fixation times

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-161

  Ferruelo, Antonio ^a,b   El Assar, Mariam ^a,b   Lorente, José A ^a,b   Nin, Nicolás ^a,b   Peñuelas, Oscar ^a,b   Fernández Segoviano, Pilar ^a,b   Gonzalez, Constancio ^b,c   Esteban, Andrés ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Critical illness; Formalin; Gene expression; Polymorphism; Pre amplification

Indexed keywords

ACE PROTEIN, HUMAN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DNA; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOPSY; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RNA STABILITY; TIME; TISSUE FIXATION;

ARTIFACTS; AUTOPSY; DNA; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIVER; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA STABILITY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79958708491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19362625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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