New Services in the
Histopathology Core Facility
Tissue
Microarray Production
A Chemicon Tissue Arrayer was recently acquired for the
production of tissue microarrays (TMA). Microarrays allow for the evaluation of
numerous tissue samples on a single slide. A core
of tissue from a region of interest is removed from a
paraffin embedded tissue block and placed into a donor block. A single donor
block may contain hundreds of cores from different tissue samples. When placed
in a specific grid pattern, individual cores can be easily identified. The
slides sectioned from this tissue array can be stained immunohistochemically and
provide a fast and internally controlled method for simultaneous protein
expression analysis of hundreds of specimens.
FEES:
1) Set-up fee for all array
requests
TMA of 0-25 cores:
$25
TMA of 25-50 cores:
$50
TMA of 50-100 cores:
$100
2) Array Building--Two
Options:
a) Standard TMA (PI chooses region of
interest)
User decides on core size (0.6-2mm)
Price per core: $2.00
b) Inclusive TMA
(pathologist chooses regions of interest)
User decides on core size
(0.6-2mm)
Price per core: $4.00
Please contact Dr Rani
Sellers (1042) or Dr BarbaraCannella (1043) for more
information, Price
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