A PCR assay using capillary electrophoresis was designed for the detection of c-erbB-2 gene amplification in alcoholformalin-acetic acid (AFA)-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsies from 81 consecutive breast tumors. c-erbB-2 expression was analyzed in the same samples using immuno-histochemistry (IHC).
Combined detection of Her2/neu gene amplification and protein overexpression in effusions from patients with breast and ovarian cancer
✍ Scribed by Birgitta Schlüter; Roswitha Gerhards; Dirk Strumberg; Rudolf Voigtmann
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 709 KB
- Volume
- 136
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1335
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