"Paraffin Embedding" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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The infiltrating of tissue specimens with paraffin, as a supporting substance, to prepare for sectioning with a microtome.
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D016612
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.500.620.720.610 E01.370.225.750.600.720.610 E05.200.500.620.720.610 E05.200.750.600.720.610
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paraffin Embedding" by people in Profiles.
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Results and lessons from dual extraction of DNA and RNA from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded breast tumor tissues for a large Cancer epidemiologic study. BMC Genomics. 2022 Aug 25; 23(1):614.
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RNA-seq from archival FFPE breast cancer samples: molecular pathway fidelity and novel discovery. BMC Med Genomics. 2019 12 19; 12(1):195.
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Evaluation and Adaptation of a Laboratory-Based cDNA Library Preparation Protocol for Retrospective Sequencing of Archived MicroRNAs from up to 35-Year-Old Clinical FFPE Specimens. Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Mar 14; 18(3).
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Reliability of KRAS mutation testing in metastatic colorectal cancer patients across five laboratories. BMC Res Notes. 2012 Apr 25; 5:196.
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Novel antibody capture assay for paraffin-embedded tissue detects wide-ranging amyloid beta and paired helical filament-tau accumulation in cognitively normal older adults. Brain Pathol. 2012 Jul; 22(4):472-84.
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping using paired exfoliated cervicovaginal cells and paraffin-embedded tissues to highlight difficulties in attributing HPV types to specific lesions. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Oct; 45(10):3245-50.
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Loss of antigenicity in stored sections of breast cancer tissue microarrays. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004 Apr; 13(4):667-72.
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The Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource: archival tissue for the investigation of tumor markers. Clin Cancer Res. 2001 Jul; 7(7):1843-9.