Resin technologies: construction and staining of resin TMA's

Methods Mol Biol. 2010:664:63-72. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60761-806-5_7.

Abstract

The traditional formaldehyde-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue, and therefore the tissue microarrays created from it, provide good morphology but with a compromised antigenicity when compared to frozen tissue. In contrast, while solving the issue of antigenicity, frozen tissue suffers from a lack of morphology. We have demonstrated that tissue microarrays constructed in glycol methacrylate resin, when combined with a cold acetone fixation step, have been able to combine the superior morphology of resin-embedded sections with the superior antigenicity of frozen tissue for prospectively collected material.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Filtration
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Mice
  • Resins, Synthetic*
  • Staining and Labeling / methods*
  • Tissue Array Analysis / methods*
  • Tissue Embedding

Substances

  • Resins, Synthetic