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Kim, Koo, Han, and Kim: Comparative Study of Flow Cytometry and Image Cytometry of Hepatocellular Carcinomas in Human and Experimental Animal Tissue
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The Ewha Medical Journal 1994; 17(1): 3-12.

Published online: 30 March 1994

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1994.17.1.3

Comparative Study of Flow Cytometry and Image Cytometry of Hepatocellular Carcinomas in Human and Experimental Animal Tissue

Sung Sool Kim, Hae Soo Koo, Woon Shub Han, Ok Kyung Kim

Department of Pathology, Medical College, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright © 1994. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The rapidly expanding field of flow cytometry consists of the simultaneous measurementof several parameters while a suspension of celts flows through a beam of light past stationary detectors.
Flow cytometric DNA analysis can even be performed on nuclear suspensions recoveredfrom thick sections of routine formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks with results remarkably similar to those obtained using fresh tissues.
Because the main limitation of flow cytometry is that cells need to be in a single-cell suspension in order to be analysed, image cytometric device was recentry developed.
At present study, we did comparison between flow cytometric and image cytometric methodsin measurement of DNA ploidy pattern of same specimen from human and experimentalanimal tissue and obtained a good correlation between 2 methods.
It is concluded that DNA image cytometry appears to be supplementary to FCM for thestudy of DNA ploidy abnormalities and that the combined results of these methods havea major influence on the clinical outcome.

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