Alcohol based fixatives provide excellent tissue morphology, protein immunoreactivity and RNA integrity in paraffin embedded tissue specimens

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 279-289

  Milcheva, Rositsa ^a,b   Janega, Pavol ^a   Celec, Peter ^a   Russev, Russy ^b   Babál, Pavel ^a  

^a Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Ab; Bp; C(g)DNA; DNTP; E(n)NOS; EtAc A(M); FFPE; Fixation technique; HE; Histomorphology; Immunoreactivity; MetAc A(M); Methacarn; NBF; OD; PCNA; PCR; PPIA; RNA expression; RT

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CASPASE 3; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYCLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; METHANOL; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HINDLIMB; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; PEPTIDYL PROLYL ISOMERASE A GENE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84875380147     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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