Fixatives
"Fixatives" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Agents employed in the preparation of histologic or pathologic specimens for the purpose of maintaining the existing form and structure of all of the constituent elements. Great numbers of different agents are used; some are also decalcifying and hardening agents. They must quickly kill and coagulate living tissue.
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D005404
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.720.355
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fixatives" by people in Profiles.
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Graw S, Meier R, Minn K, Bloomer C, Godwin AK, Fridley B, Vlad A, Beyerlein P, Chien J. Robust gene expression and mutation analyses of RNA-sequencing of formalin-fixed diagnostic tumor samples. Sci Rep. 2015 Jul 23; 5:12335.
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Hunter SB, Varma V, Shehata B, Nolen JD, Cohen C, Olson JJ, Ou CY. Apolipoprotein D expression in primary brain tumors: analysis by quantitative RT-PCR in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. J Histochem Cytochem. 2005 Aug; 53(8):963-9.