Includes bibliographical references and index.

Applications of tissue microarray technology / Ronald Simon -- Quality aspects of TMA analysis / Pierre Tennstedt and Guido Sauter -- Representativity of TMA studies / Guido Sauter -- Recipient block TMA technique / Martina Mirlacher and Ronald Simon -- Protocol for constructing tissue arrays by cutting edge matrix assembly / Thai Hong Tran ... [et al.] -- Hypodermic needle without recipient paraffin block technique / Andréa Rodrigues Cordovil Pires and Simone Rabello de Souza -- Resin technologies : construction and staining of resin TMA's / William J. Howat and Susan J. Wilson -- Tissue microarrays from frozen tissues-OCT technique / Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo and Dennis J. Slamon -- An alternative technology to prepare tissue microarray using frozen tissue samples / Zhongtin Hu, Elbert Chang, and Melissa Hodeib -- Building "tissue" microarrays from suspension cells / Shuchun Zhao and Yasodha Natkunam -- Tissue microarrays from biopsy specimens / Milton W. Datta and André A. Kajdacsy-Balla -- Immunohistochemical analysis of tissue microarrays / Ronald Simon, Martina Mirlacher, and Guido Sauter -- DNA copy number analysis on tissue microarrays / Anne Kallioniemi -- RNA expression analysis on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues in TMA format by RNA in situ hybridization / Jürgen Veeck and Edgar Dahl -- Automated analysis of tissue microarrays / Marisa Dolled-Filhart ... [et al.] -- Digital microscopy for boosting database integration and analysis in TMA studies / Tibor Krenacs ... [et al.] -- From gene to clinic : TMA-based clinical validation of molecular markers in prostate cancer / Thorsten Schlomm, Felix KH Chun, and Andreas Erbersdobler.

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