Abstract
In situ hybridization is used to visualize nucleic acids in microscopic tissue sections and has in recent years been used successfully to detect microRNAs. We have further optimized a technique to detect and semiquantitatively assay microRNA expression in tissue microarrays derived from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded archival tumor tissue.
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Turnock-Jones, J.J., Le Quesne, J.P.C. (2014). MicroRNA In Situ Hybridization in Tissue Microarrays. In: Nielsen, B. (eds) In Situ Hybridization Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1211. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1459-3_8
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