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IN SITU PCR. OVERVIEW OF PROCEDURES AND APPLICATIONS
Carlos A. Muro-Cacho, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA
Received 1/10/97 Accepted 7/15/97
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Abstract
- 2. Introduction
- 3. General considerations
- 3.1. Equipment
- 3.2 Technical aspects
- 3.3 Types of samples
- 3.4 Fixation
- 3.5 Proteolytic digestion
- 3.6 Additional pretreatments
- 4. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- 4.1 Polymerases
- 4.2 Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs)
- 4.3 Buffers
- 4.4 Primers
- 4.5 Cycling profile
- 5. In situ PCR Protocols
- 5.1 In situ RT-PCR
- 5.2 Direct In situ PCR
- 5.3 Indirect In situ PCR
- 6. Controls
- 6.1 Causes of false negativity
- 6.2 Causes of false positivity
- 6.3 DNA repair
- 6.4 Mispriming
- 6.5 Endogenous priming
- 6.6 Diffusion of PCR products
- 7. Applications
- 8. Acknowledgment
- 9. References
- 10. Appendices
- Appendix 1 - General information
- Appendix 2 - Sample preparation
- Appendix 3 - Proteolytic digestion
- Appendix 4 - Additional pretreatments
- Appendix 5 - RT-PCR
- Appendix 6 - Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Appendix 7 - Direct In situ PCR
- Appendix 8 - Indirect In situ PCR
- Appendix 9 - Detection methods
- 11. Entire manuscript
Keywords: PCR, In situ PCR
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