"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.
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D005404
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.720.355
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fixatives" by people in Profiles.
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A novel approach for assigning levels to monkey and human lumbosacral spinal cord based on ventral horn morphology. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0177243.
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Postmortem MRI of human brain hemispheres: T2 relaxation times during formaldehyde fixation. Magn Reson Med. 2009 Apr; 61(4):810-8.
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PCR production of a digoxigenin-labeled probe for the detection of human cytomegalovirus in tissue sections. Diagn Mol Pathol. 1994 Sep; 3(3):200-8.
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Whole blood method for simultaneous detection of surface and cytoplasmic antigens by flow cytometry. Cytometry. 1993; 14(4):433-40.
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Check samples for laboratory self-assessment in DNA flow cytometry. The National Cancer Institute's Flow Cytometry Network experience. Cancer. 1989 Apr 15; 63(8):1592-9.
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Solid-phase peptide quantitation assay using labeled monoclonal antibody and glutaraldehyde fixation. Anal Biochem. 1988 Oct; 174(1):224-34.