Quantitative immunohistology: tissue section thickness, another glitch in the path to standardization (editorial)

Title: Quantitative immunohistology: tissue section thickness, another glitch in the path to standardization (editorial)
Creator: Leong, Anthony S.-Y.
Relation: Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology Vol. 17, Issue 6, p. 465-469
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAI.0b013e3181a60898
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: Immunohistology was introduced in anatomical pathology as a means of labeling cells to allow their identification. Through the labeling of proteins, enzymes, andother cellular products it became possible to specifically recognize cells that otherwise could not be distinguished on the basis of morphology alone. Immunohistochemistry served as a specific ‘‘special stain’’ that provided largely qualitative information, which, at best, was semiquantitative. Nonetheless, this qualitative function served the diagnostic role of immunohistology well and the technique has rapidly become entrenched as an important adjunct to morphologic diagnosis.
Subject: immunohistology; pathology; cells; tissue section; morphologic
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807192
Identifier: uon:7329
Identifier: ISSN:1541-2016
Language: eng

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