Teratogens in the human: Current problems

Hepatitis C virus genotype testing in paraffin wax embedded liver biopsies for specimen identification

Despite advances in medical technology, careful specimen identification is still a fundamental principle of laboratory testing. If pathological samples are mixed up, especially in the case of extremely small biopsy sampl...

SV40 Tag DNA sequences, present in a small proportion of human hepatocellular carcinomas, are associated with reduced survival

Two cohorts of HCCs were studied. The first (cohort A) comprised 50 cases diagnosed between 1978 and 1989, and the second (cohort B) comprised 20 cases diagnosed between 1998 and 2001. Twe...

Screening for fetal chromosome aberrations in early pregnancy

Detection of human papillomavirus DNA in oral inverted ductal papillomas

Additional sections were obtained for the purpose of HPV DNA hybridisation studies using commercially available probes. Initially, a wide spectrum biotinylated probe (Dako, Carpinteria, California, USA) f...