Effect of prolonged formalin fixation on immunohistochemical staining for the proliferation marker Ki67

Histopathology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1261-1263

  Hitchman, Elizabeth ^a   Hodgkinson, Cassandra ^a   Roberts, Darren ^a   Ashton, Garry ^b   Yunus, Zaira ^a   Byers, Richard ^a   Ward, Tim ^a   Womack, Chris ^c   Dive, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FORMALDEHYDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROLONGED FORMALDEHYDE FIXATION; SOLID TUMOR; STAINING; TIME; TISSUE FIXATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICE; NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855965736     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2011.03974.x     Document Type: Letter

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