Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21081515›Full record

ArticleJournal of clinical pathology2011

High-density tissue microarrays from prostate needle biopsies.

F McCarthy, N Dennis, P Flohr, S Jhavar, C Parker, C S Cooper

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Article in Journal of clinical pathology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 authors.

F McCarthyInstitute of Cancer Research, Male Urological Cancer Research Centre, Sutton, UK.
N Dennis
P Flohr
S Jhavar
C Parker
C S Cooper

Funding

Cancer Research UK 10588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFormalin-fixed prostate biopsies are frequently the only tissue collected at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis. There is therefore a requirement for techniques that allow the use of these prostate biopsy specimens in a high-throughput analysis of immunohistochemical and fluorescence-in-situ-hybridisation-detected biomarkers.

methodsThe authors have previously described methods that allow tissue microarray (TMA) construction from prostate biopsies. Here, we describe significant technical innovations that provide an easier and more robust system of biopsy-TMA construction. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The TMAs produced are of a high density (up to 104 cores each, 8 × 13) and allow a multiplex analysis of biomarkers in the context of clinical trials.

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Biomarkers, TumorBiopsy, NeedleFormaldehydeHumansMaleProspective StudiesProstatic NeoplasmsTissue Array AnalysisTissue FixationBiomarkers, TumorFormaldehyde

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PMID21081515
PMCPMC3002837

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