Factors influencing the degradation of archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections.

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Published in J Histochem Cytochem on February 10, 2011

Authors

Ran Xie1, Joon-Yong Chung, Kris Ylaya, Reginald L Williams, Natalie Guerrero, Nathan Nakatsuka, Cortessia Badie, Stephen M Hewitt

Author Affiliations

1: Tissue Array Research Program, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.

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