Frozen Tissue Section
Features
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Better
antigen exposure than Paraffin tissue sections
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Simpler detection procedure
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Duplicated tissues or a single tissue per slide
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Easier
extraction of better quality DNA, RNA or protein
Applications
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Cellular localization of tissue specific mRNA and protein
expression
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Identification of tumor and disease specific genes, proteins
by in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and in situ
PCR detection
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Comparison of the locations of novel genes in different
tissues Control slides for immunohistochemistry studies
Quality
Control
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At
least one of the tissue slides from each lot was stained
with H & E to ensure the quality
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