Quality Control of RNA Preservation and Extraction from Paraffin-Embedded Tissue: Implications for RT-PCR and Microarray Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kashofer, Karl ^a   Viertler, Christian ^a   Pichler, Martin ^a   Zatloukal, Kurt ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRESERVATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA PRESERVATION; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA STABILITY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84881140138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070714     Document Type: Article

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