Breast cancer research protocols - Brooks, Susan A.; Harris, Adrian (Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2006)
Breast tissue banking: collection, handling, storage, and release of tissue for breast cancer research / Linda Snell and Peter H. Watson -- Frozen biopsy collection and storage: frozen biopsy samples / Russell Leek -- Serial biopsies/fine-needle aspirates and their assessment / Irene Boeddinghaus and Stephen R.D. Johnson -- Breast tissue microarrays / Robert J. Springall and Cheryl E. Gillett -- Preparation of tumor homogenates for subsequent preparation of cytosols, membrane fractions, RNA, and DNA / Naomi Robertson and Russell Leek -- Isolation of RNA from tumor samples: single-step guanidinium acid-phenol method / Naomi Robertson and Russell Leek -- Isolation of DNA from tumor samples / Naomi Robertson and Russell Leek -- Laser-assisted microdissection and isolation of DNA and RNA / Ulrich Lehmann and Hans Kreipe --;Traditional and established indicators of prognosis and treatment success / Derek E. Roskell and Ian D. Buley -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer / Celia Chao and Kelly M. McMasters -- Pathological evaluation of axillary sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer / Michael Z. Gilcrease and Aysegul Sahin -- Measurement of estrogen receptor status by immunocytochemistry in paraffin wax sections / Bharat Jasani ... [et al.] -- Markers of apoptosis / Falzul H. Sarkar and Yiwei Li -- Quantitative angiogenesis in breast cancer / Stephen B. Fox --;Immunohistochemistry / Cheryl E. Gillett -- Detection of aberrant glycosylation in breast cancer using lectin histochemistry / Tracey M. Carter and Susan A. Brooks -- SDS-PAGE and western blotting to detect proteins and glycoproteins of interest in breast cancer research / Chloe Osborne and Susan A. Brooks -- Breast cancer proteomics using two-dimensional electrophoresis: studying the breast cancer proteome / Miriam V. Dwek and Sarah L. Rawlings -- Procedures for the quantitative protein determination of urokinase and its inhibitor PAI-1 in human breast cancer tissue extracts using ELISA / Manfred Schmitt ... [et al.] --;Fluorescence in situ hybridization and comparative genomic hybridization / Patricia Gorman and Rebecca Roylance -- Fluorescence in situ hybridization assessment of c-myc gene amplification in breast tumor tissues / Jan K. Blancato, Mary Steele Williams, and Robert B. Dickson -- Detection of HER2 gene amplification by fluorescence in situ hybridization in breast cancer / John M.S. Bartlett, and Amanda Forsyth -- In situ hybridization combined with immunohistochemistry to localize gene expression / Rosemary Jeffery, Toby Hunt, and Richard Poulsom -- Quantitation of RNA by ribonuclease protection assay / John W. Moore -- Identification of steroid hormone-regulated genes in breast cancer / Bruce R. Westley and Felicity E.B. May -- Sequencing of the tumor suppressor gene TP 53 / Barbro Linderholm, Torbjo??rn Norberg, and Jonas Bergh -- Expression profiling using cDNA microarrays / Chris Jones ... [et al.] -- Gene expression analysis using filter cDNA microarrays / Peter Simpson ... [et al.] --;Methods to analyze the effects of the urokinase system on cancer cell adhesion, proliferation, migration, and signal transduction events / Ute Reuning ... [et al.] -- Phospho-specific antibodies as a tool to study in vivo regulation of BRCA1 after DNA damage / Kum Kum Khanna, Magtouf Gatei, and Gordon Tribbick -- Models of hormone resistance in vitro and in vivo / Jennifer MacGregor Schafer and V. Craig Jordan -- Generation of genetically modified embryonic stem cells for the development of knockout mouse animal model systems / Stephen D. Robinson, Stephen Wilson, and Kairbaan M. Hodivala-Dilke -- In vivo xenograft models of breast cancer metastatsis / Ursula Valentiner, Susan A. Brooks, and Udo Schumacher -- Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy models / Juliette Murray, William R. Miller, and J. Michael Dixon -- Primary mouse endothelial cell culture for assays of angiogenesis / Louise E. Reynolds and Kairbaan M. Hodivala-Dilke.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Biopsy; Breast Neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms; Clinical Protocols; Genetic Techniques