Systematic comparison of tissue fixation with alternative fixatives to conventional tissue fixation with buffered formalin in a xenograft-based model

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 461, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-269

  Nietner, Thorben ^a   Jarutat, Tiantom ^b   Mertens, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFA; Formalin fixation; HOPE ; Immunohistochemistry; PAXgene ; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFIED FORMAL ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL; BUFFER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; HOPE FIXATIVE; PARAFFIN; PAXGENE FIXATIVE; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DEVICE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ULTRASOUND; VALIDITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BUFFERS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ETHANOL; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TISSUE FIXATION; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84867401968     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: 14322307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-012-1248-5     Document Type: Article

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