Applications of mass spectrometry for quantitative protein analysis in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues

Proteomics

Volumn 14, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 441-451

  Steiner, Carine ^a,b,c   Ducret, Axel ^c   Tille, Jean Christophe ^a   Thomas, Marlene ^d   Mckee, Thomas A ^a   Rubbia Brandt, Laura ^a   Scherl, Alexander ^a,b   Lescuyer, Pierre ^a,b   Cutler, Paul ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^d ROCHE INNOVATION CENTER MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Biomedicine; Formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue; Oncology; Shotgun proteomics; SRM

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; PROTEOME; PROTEIN;

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TISSUES; FRESH FROZEN TISSUE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; TISSUE FIXATION;

BIOMARKERS; BIOMEDICINE; FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED TISSUE; ONCOLOGY; SHOTGUN PROTEOMICS; SRM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DRUG DISCOVERY; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84896750184     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300311     Document Type: Review

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