What is the purpose of tissue microarray?
Tissue microarray is a practical and effective tool for high-throughput molecular analysis of tissues that is helping identify new diagnostic and prognostic markers and targets in human cancers.
What is tissue microarray construction?
Tissue microarrays (TMAs) are constructed by removing a core (tube shaped section) of tissue from a paraffin block (donor block) using a hollow needle and transferring this core to a predetermined position on a paraffin block (recipient block).
How are TMAs made?
Tissue Microarrays (TMAs) consist of paraffin blocks where up to 500 individual tissue cores have been inserted in an arrayed fashion (1). These miniaturized collections of tissue spots result in a dramatic increase in throughput for in situ examination of gene status and gene expression from archival specimens.
How many types of microarrays are there?
There are four different types of DNA microarrays: cDNA microarrays, oligo DNA microarrays, BAC microarrays and SNP microarrays.
What does TMA stand for and what are they useful for?
Abstract. The tissue microarray (TMA) technology provides the means for high-throughput analysis of multiple tissues and cells. The technique is used within the Human Protein Atlas project for global analysis of protein expression patterns in normal human tissues, cancer and cell lines.
What is the meaning of TMA in Nios?
Tutor Marked Assignments
What is the full form of TMA in Nios? Tutor Marked Assignments (TMA) is one such means TMA helps in developing regular study habits in students and give students practice in writing responses to questions thereby having a kind of rehearsal in the preparation for the final examination.
Why ez-tmatm tissue microarray?
IHC World is now introducing a new series of EZ-TMATM Tissue Microarray Kits that can be applied to any laboratories for constructing tissue arrays without the need of specialized equipment and training, offering a good alternative for the wider applications of tissue arrays in cancer research and drug discovery.
What are the best tissue microarray devices available in the market?
IHC World offers full range of tissue microarray devices and equipments for constructing tissue microarrays. EZ-TMA Manual Tissue Microarray Kits are designed for constructing small number of paraffin tissue microarrays in the easiest way.
What is quick-ray automated tissue microarray?
Quick-Ray Molds allow users to make TMA paraffin recipient blocks at low cost and the core sizes of each mold is perfectly match with the Quick-Ray Manual TMA Punchers. The new generation Quick-Ray Automated Tissue Microarrayer has convenience with a touch screen LCD monitor to build tissue microarrays in a quick and innovative way.
Why choose IHC world for tissue microarray?
IHC World offers full range of tissue microarray devices and equipments for constructing tissue microarrays. EZ-TMA Manual Tissue Microarray Kits are designed for constructing small number of paraffin tissue microarrays in the easiest way. Our Arraymold Kits allow you to constructing up to 40 paraffin or frozen tissue microarrays manually.