"Fixatives" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Agents employed in the preparation of histologic or pathologic specimens for the purpose of maintaining the existing form and structure of all of the constituent elements. Great numbers of different agents are used; some are also decalcifying and hardening agents. They must quickly kill and coagulate living tissue.
| Descriptor ID |
D005404
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.720.355
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fixatives" by people in Profiles.
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Comparison of Culture With Antibiogram to Next-Generation Sequencing Using Bacterial Isolates and Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Gastric Biopsies. Gastroenterology. 2021 11; 161(5):1433-1442.e2.
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Formaldehyde scavengers function as novel antigen retrieval agents. Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 27; 5:17322.
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Global transcriptome and sequenome analysis of formalin-fixed salivary epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma specimens. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2015 Apr; 54(4):249-59.
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Clinical next-generation sequencing in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer. 2015 Feb 15; 121(4):631-9.
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Genome-wide analysis of replication timing in mammalian cells: troubleshooting problems encountered when comparing different cell types. Methods. 2012 Jun; 57(2):165-9.
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FUS rearrangements are rare in 'pure' sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma. Mod Pathol. 2012 Jun; 25(6):846-53.
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Proposals for uniform collection of biospecimens from neoadjuvant breast cancer clinical trials: timing and specimen types. Lancet Oncol. 2011 Nov; 12(12):1162-8.
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A quantitative proteomic analysis of FFPE melanoma. J Cutan Pathol. 2011 Nov; 38(11):933-6.
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Reproducibility and performance of virtual karyotyping with SNP microarrays for the detection of chromosomal imbalances in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Diagn Mol Pathol. 2010 Sep; 19(3):127-34.
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Delay to formalin fixation effect on breast biomarkers. Mod Pathol. 2009 Nov; 22(11):1457-67.