Comparison of snap freezing versus ethanol fixation for gene expression profiling of tissue specimens

Journal of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 371-377

  Perlmutter, Mark A ^a   Best, Carolyn J M ^a   Gillespie, John W ^a   Gathright, Yvonne ^a   González, Sergio ^b   Velasco, Alfredo ^b   Linehan, W Marston ^a   Emmert Buck, Michael R ^a   Chuaqui, Rodrigo F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 8744315492     PISSN: 15251578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60534-X     Document Type: Article

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