Construction of high-density tissue microarrays at low cost by using self-made manual microarray kits and recipient paraffin blocks

Korean Journal of Pathology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 562-568

  Choi, Chang Hwan ^a   Kim, Kyu Ho ^a   Song, Ju Young ^a   Choi, Suk Jin ^a   Kim, Lucia ^a   Park, In Suh ^a   Han, Jee Young ^a   Kim, Joon Mee ^a   Chu, Young Chae ^a  

^a Inha University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Paraffin; Pathology; Research; Tissue array analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874084621     PISSN: 17381843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2012.46.6.562     Document Type: Article

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