Optimal antigen retrieval for ethanol-fixed cytologic smears

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-176

  Denda, Tamami ^a   Kamoshida, Shingo ^b   Kawamura, Jumpei ^a   Harada, Kunihiko ^a   Kawai, Kenji ^c   Kuwao, Sadahito ^a,d  

^a Higashiyamato Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethanol fixed smear; Formalin vapor fixed smear; Heat induced antigen retrieval; Immunocytochemistry; Protease induced antigen retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CELL ANTIBODY; CELL ANTIGEN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CITRIC ACID; CYTOPLASM ANTIBODY; CYTOPLASM ANTIGEN; EDETIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PRONASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN; FIXATIVE; PARAFFIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; ETHANOL FIXED CYTOLOGIC SMEAR; HEATING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING;

ANTIGENS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84865151174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.21192     Document Type: Article

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