Preservation of nucleic acids and tissue morphology in paraffin-embedded clinical samples: Comparison of five molecular fixatives

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 807-810

  Staff, Synnöve ^a,b   Kujala, Paula ^b   Karhu, Ritva ^b   Rökman, Annika ^b   Ilvesaro, Joanna ^b   Kares, Saara ^b   Isola, Jorma ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PARAFFIN; RNA;

ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FREEZING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACROMOLECULE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

FIXATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY;

FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OVARY; PARAFFIN; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TISSUE FIXATION; UTERUS;

EID: 84882816498     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201283     Document Type: Article

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