Disinfectants ; Fixatives ; toxicity ; Formaldehyde ; toxicity ; Paraffin Embedding ; Tissue Fixation

Paraffin Embedding ; methods ; Tissue Array Analysis ; instrumentation ; methods

Formaldehyde ; Humans ; Microdissection ; Paraffin Embedding ; Proteomics ; methods ; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization ; Tissue Fixation

Biomarkers, Tumor ; metabolism ; Formaldehyde ; Humans ; Neoplasms ; metabolism ; Paraffin Embedding ; RNA, Messenger ; metabolism ; Tissue Fixation

The CDKN2 (MTS1/p16INK4A) gene, encoding cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor, was found to be homozygously deleted at a high frequency in cell lines from many different types of cancer and some primary cancers. To determine the frequency of CDKN2 mutations in most common human cancers in Korea, PCR and PCR-SSCP analyses for the exon 2 of CDKN2 were performed on each set of 20 formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tumor tissues of stomach adenocarcinomas, lung cancers, cervix cancers and hepatocellular carcinomas. No mutations in exon 2 of CDKN2 were found in 20 stomach adenocarcinomas. In contrast to rare mutations in stomach adenocarcinomas, a high frequency of CDKN2 mutations was identified in other 3 cancers, 11 of 20 (55%) lung cancers (7 of 10 NSCLCs and 4 of 10 SCLCs), 14 of 20 (70%) cervix cancers and 11 of 20 (55%) hepatocellular carcinomas. These results suggest that mutations of the CDKN2 gene might be an important genetic change in NSCLCs, cervix cancers and hepatocellular carcinomas.
Adenocarcinoma/genetics ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/genetics ; Cervix Neoplasms/genetics* ; Female ; Formaldehyde ; Human ; Liver Neoplasms/genetics* ; Lung Neoplasms/genetics* ; Mutation ; Paraffin Embedding ; Protein p16/genetics* ; Sequence Deletion ; Stomach Neoplasms/genetics* ; Tissue Embedding/methods

We have performed this study to define the usefulness of an anti-human progenitor cell antigen-1(anti-CD34) to distinguish some kinds of soft tissue tumors in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. Sixty three cases of vascular, fibrohistiocytic, neural and other tumors were immunostained for CD34 using the streptavidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method. All of the vascular tumors including hemangiomas, epithelioid hemangioendotheliomas, hemangiopericytomas, and lymphangiomas revealed strong CD34 positivity along the cytoplasmic membranes. Among the fibrohistiocytic lesions, all of five examples of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans showed diffuse, strong, and linear staining along the cytoplasmic processes. In contrast, none of the benign fibrous histiocytomas and malignant fibrous histiocytomas expressed CD34. CD34-positive cells with delicate dendritic processes could be identified within the normal nerves, neuromas, neurofibromas, and Antoni B areas of neurilemomas. However, all of the malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors were uniformly negative. In addition, an epithelioid sarcoma and four cases of leiomyosarcoma revealed focal, weak positivity with anti-CD34. In conclusion, this study demonstrated variable anti-CD34 staining pattern of certain fibrohistiocytic, muscle, and neural tumors and confirmed the potential usefulness of anti-CD34 in differentiating fibrous histiocytoma from dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. It's also helpful to diagnose epithelioid hemangioendothelioma from other epithelioid-type tumors.
Antibodies, Monoclonal/*diagnostic use ; Antigens, CD34/diagnostic use/*immunology ; Evaluation Studies ; Formaldehyde ; Human ; Immunohistochemistry ; Paraffin Embedding ; Soft Tissue Neoplasms/*diagnosis/pathology ; Tissue Fixation

Adolescent ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; methods ; Leg ; Male ; Paraffin Embedding ; Sarcoma, Synovial ; diagnosis ; genetics ; pathology ; Soft Tissue Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; genetics ; pathology ; Translocation, Genetic

Antigens ; analysis ; immunology ; Antigens, CD ; analysis ; immunology ; Formaldehyde ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; methods ; Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; Paraffin Embedding ; methods ; Staining and Labeling ; Tissue Fixation ; methods

Antigens ; analysis ; genetics ; Fixatives ; Formaldehyde ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; methods ; In Situ Hybridization ; methods ; Paraffin Embedding ; Proteins ; analysis ; genetics ; Staining and Labeling ; methods ; Tissue Fixation ; methods

The aim of this research was to explore the most optimal method of DNA extraction from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues, and to improve the amplification of long fragments with the method. Three methods, one step method, phenol-chloroform extraction method, and genomic DNA purification kit method, were employed to extract DNA from twenty normal thyroid tissues which were fixed with formalin and embedded with paraffin. The highest proportionality of OD260/OD280 in the examples was obtained by phenol-chloroform extraction method, 1.703 +/- 0.086, compared to the results of the other two methods. As for the long DNA segments amplification, the achievement ratio of one step method, phenol-chloroform extraction method and genomic DNA purification kit method were 0%, 5% and 10%, respectively, by traditional PCR method, but 0%, 95% and 85% respectively by the nest PCR. We have found that the best process of extracting DNA from FFPE is digesting by proteinase K and purifying by phenol-chloroform, and it is effective to amplify long DNA segments from FFPE by nest PCR.
Base Sequence ; DNA ; isolation & purification ; Formaldehyde ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Paraffin Embedding ; Pathology, Molecular ; methods ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; methods ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Thyroid Gland ; pathology ; Tissue Fixation