Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7626198 | Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis | 2018 | 34 Pages |
Abstract
More than a century ago in 1893, a revolutionary idea about fixing biological tissue specimens was introduced by Ferdinand Blum, a German physician. Since then, a plethora of fixation methods have been investigated and used. Formalin fixation with paraffin embedment became the most widely used types of fixation and preservation method, due to its proper architectural conservation of tissue structures and cellular shape. The huge collection of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) sample archives worldwide holds a large amount of unearthed information about diseases that could be the Holy Grail in contemporary biomarker research utilizing analytical omics based molecular diagnostics. The aim of this review is to critically evaluate the omics options for FFPE tissue sample analysis in the molecular diagnostics field.
Keywords
SDSMSINBFFFPECapillary electrophoresisHOPEMolecular diagnosticsmass spectrometry imagingmatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionizationsodium dodecyl sulfateMass spectrometryformalin-fixed, paraffin-embeddedMALDImicrowaveMetabolomicspolymerase chain reactionPCRProteomicsGenomicsliquid chromatographyGlycomics
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Authors
Boglarka Donczo, Andras Guttman,