We describe here a simple and versatile method of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) on paraffin-embedded tissue sections with specific application in the study of microchimerism, that is, the presence of intact foreign cells within an individual. This is accomplished through the use of X and Y chromosome-specific probes to identify the presence of male nuclei within a tissue section fro...

background and objective: to estimate the risk of human papilloma virus (hpv) infection for cervical malignancies, we conducted a case-control study in southern iran (hormozgan province). materials and methods: for this purpose,52 paraffin embedded blocks with exact diagnosis of cervical carcinoma(50 carcinomas and 2 carcinomas in situ) from 2001 to 2006 and 52 praffin embedded blocks of cervic...

Background and Objectives: RCC is one of the most common genitourinary cancers. Accurate prediction of prognosis would be valuable for adjuvant trial design, counseling and effectively scheduling follow up visits. P53 is a tumor suppressor gene that expresses a protein that involved in both cell-cycle ar...

background: medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. the important factors in predicting survival are the extent of disease, proliferation index of the tumor cells, histopathologic class and the age at diagnosis. the percentage of ki-67 positive cells reflects the proliferation  of the cells and is one of the critical factors which determine the growth of the tumor....

The goal of this study was to clarify the role p16INK4a, p14ARF, and p53 protein expressions in carcinogenesis squamous cell carcinomas lip. p53, p14ARF proteins were examined 46 formaline-fixed paraffin embedded tissue specimens, which included 19 cases carcinoma lip, 14 actinic cheilitis, 13 normal mucosa. Immunoreactivity peritumoral epithelium adjacent als

background and objectives:  the molecular genetic of the human herpes virus 8 (hhv8) has now been characterized the pathogenesis of kaposi sarcoma (ks). this study attempted to determine the rate of hhu-8 infection in ks in an iraniann cross sectional study. method & material: in this cross-sectional study, we used paraffin-embedded specimens of 54 clinically well-characterized kaposi sarco...

Protein detection methods in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks are widely used in research and clinical setting in order to diagnose or to confirm a diagnosis of various types of diseases. Therefore, multiple protein extraction methods from FFPE tissue sections have been developed in this regard. However, the yield and the quality of proteins extracted from FFPE tissues are ...