Nonradioactive in situ hybridization (NISH) on sections of paraffin-embedded neuroblastoma tissue was performed to evaluate numerical and structural aberrations of chromosome I. Two biotinylated probes specific for the heterochromatic (D I Z I) and subtelomeric regions of chromosome I (DIS32) were u
Chromosome 1p36 and 22qter deletions in paraffin block sections of intracranial meningiomas
✍ Scribed by Zerrin Yilmaz; Feride Iffet Sahin; Basar Atalay; Özlem Özen; Hakan Caner; Murad Bavbek; Beyhan Demirhan; Nur Altinörs
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1219-4956
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