Density measurements for a given specimen involve the determination of any two of the following quantities: pore volume, bulk volume, or grain volume, along with the weight.
The archival primary tumor specimen involving the bladder from this same patient, which dated to 1 year and 3 months prior to CTC analysis, was obtained for aCGH analysis as well.
Studies of beam-induced motion have shown that the observed motion in cryo-EM specimens involves both the ice and the carbon support (Glaser et al., 2011; Brilot et al., 2012).
Conventional pathologic examination of gross liver specimens involves slicing the organ at 1 cm intervals, but then employing the same methods as those used by the surgeons at laparotomy visual inspection, and palpation.
The usual laboratory procedure for clinical specimens involves microscopic examination for the presence of AFB and isolation and identification of the organism by culture.
Our method for constructing TMAs from these specimens involves cutting out small 4 mm lengths of the biopsy specimen and repositioning them in a vertical orientation so that approximately 90 100 4- μm-thick sections from each biopsy can be made available for IHC staining, in comparison to only a few from the original horizontally embedded specimens.
Although the numbers of subjects and biological specimens involved are small, the evidence from the translational studies involving ETS gene fusion products and CTCs provide further, albeit preliminary, molecular biological corroboration of the importance of AR-mediated signalling mechanisms.
The manufacturing route adopted for the auxetic PU specimens involved a multiaxial compression of the native foam, heating of the compressed specimens above the Tg of the foam polymer, and cooling under running water.
The specimens involved two sections and seven slenderness ratios varying from 15 to 100.
Moreover, all examined individuals cluster concordantly with respect to the mtDNA phylogeny if specimens involved in putative hybridizations are ignored (Templeton rank sum test, p < 0.01).
