Journal: Korean Journal of Pathology
Article Title: Construction of High-Density Tissue Microarrays at Low Cost by Using Self-Made Manual Microarray Kits and Recipient Paraffin Blocks
doi: 10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2012.46.6.562
Figure Lengend Snippet: Self-made recipient blocks constructed by boring the holes with manual tissue microarray (TMA) kit or mini electric hand drill assembled with mini X-Y table. Conventional bare paraffin blocks are used to construct recipient blocks. Compared to boring holes using self-made manual TMA kits (A, 18-gauge needle; C, 2 mm disposable skin biopsy punch; E, 3 mm disposable skin biopsy punch), drilling the holes with a mini electric hand drill produces recipient blocks with higher density and better-aligned arrays of holes of different diameters (B, 1 mm; D, 2 mm; F, 3 mm).
Article Snippet: An easy and relatively inexpensive alternative is manual construction of TMAs using commercial manual TMA instruments such as Quick Ray (Unitma, Seoul, Korea), costing more than US $3,500.
Techniques: Construct, Microarray