Effects of Long-Term Storage on the Detection of Proteins, DNA, and mRNA in Tissue Microarray Slides

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1113-1121

  Karlsson, Christina ^a   Karlsson, Mats G ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

antigenicity; CISH; FISH; formalin fixed paraffin embedded; heat induced antigen retrieval; immunohistochemistry; tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 7; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FORMALDEHYDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 1; PROTEIN P53; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PARAFFIN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TIME; TIME; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE PRESERVATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; TEMPERATURE;

DNA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KERATIN-7; KI-67 ANTIGEN; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84856012999     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155411423779     Document Type: Article

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