Of the nineteen specimens, all specimens contained ESA+ cells (Figure 5C); however, only eleven specimens contained a detectable number of CD133+ cells (Figure 5D) and fifteen contained CXCR4+ cells (Figure 5E).
Persons who had smear-positive TB may have been missed because they did not provide a specimen; however, because only 5% of eligible persons did not provide a specimen, this can explain only a slight underestimation.
The mucinous carcinoma specimen, however, had only cancer cells and mucin with no normal tissue.
Indeed, in Yerbaniz, hundreds of fish are reportedly swept into the caves following spring flooding, however only two specimens have been reported that bear intermediate phenotypes [ 5, 9].
However, only 16 specimens of R. amplexicaudatus bats were available in this study, and it will be necessary to investigate more specimens of this species to detect the REBOV genome or antigens to conclude the bat is a natural reservoir for REBOV.
We did not systematically record the size of liver biopsy specimens, however, during the study period, only 5 out of 297 biopsies yielded insufficient liver tissue for pathological diagnosis.
However, only 17 tumor specimens were analysed in this study [ 22].
The BPBM card catalog lists specimens from Hawai'i, Maui, O'ahu, and Laysan; however only four lots from O'ahu and one from Laysan could be located in the collections.
However, only 18/82 (22.0%) HCC specimens were positive for IQGAP2 (2/30 samples from Brigham and Women's Hospital and 16/52 samples from the TMA).
Moreover 17 of the specimens of liver metastases also exhibited significant staining of the carcinoma cells (Fisher exact test, P<0.0001), however, only in one of the carcinoma specimens did the lymphocytes fail to stain for S100A4 (Table 2).
