Tissue microarrays: An overview

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 91-103

  Dhir, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Array design; Frozen array; Paraffin tissue microarray; TMA; XLM data exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934442928     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-47-2_6     Document Type: Article

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