FFPE tissue as a feasible source for gene expression analysis - A comparison of three reference genes and one tumor marker

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 209, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 784-789

  Walter, Robert Fred Henry ^a   Mairinger, Fabian Dominik ^a   Wohlschlaeger, Jeremias ^a   Worm, Karl ^a   Ting, Saskia ^a   Vollbrecht, Claudia ^b   Schmid, Kurt Werner ^a   Hager, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

FFPE; Neuroendocrine cancer; Pulmonary cancer; Reference genes; RNA quality

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ACTB GENE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; GAPDH GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HPRT1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PSMA1 GENE; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ACTB; ACTIN, BETA; AOD; ASSAY ON DEMAND; CT; FFPE; FORMALIN-FIXED, PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED; GAPDH; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HE; HEMATOXYLIN AND EOSIN; HPRT1; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; IHC; IMMONHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL LUNG CANCER; LCLC; MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID; MRNA; NEUROENDOCRINE CANCER; NON-TEMPLATE CONTROL; NTC; PROTEASOME (PROSOME, MACROPAIN) SUBUNIT, ALPHA TYPE, 1; PSMA1; PULMONARY CANCER; QPCR; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE GENES; RNA QUALITY; SCLC; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; TRESHHOLD CYCLE;

FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887820664     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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