Terms And Abbreviations - 3D Histech TMA Grand Master 2.0 User Manual

TMA Grand Master 2.0 – User's Guide

Terms and abbreviations

Digital slide / Slide
Donor block
Recipient block
Clone Block
TMA
PCR
November 5, 2013 – Rev. 1
Slide digitized with a scanner microscope, for example Pannoramic SCAN. Consists of an
MRXS file and a folder with the same name as the MRXS file.
The donor block is a standard tissue block that may be from surgical pathology, autopsy,
or research material.
The tissue cores are removed from the donor and inserted into a "recipient" paraffin
block.
A duplicate (triplicate, quadruplicate, etc.) of a recipient block with identical layout and
core order.
Tissue microarrays – The tissue microarray consists of an array of cylindrical cores of
paraffin-embedded tissue that are removed from preexisting "donor" paraffin blocks.
Polymerase Chain Reaction, a biochemical technology used for a variety of applications,
but the primary aim of the method is to exponentially amplify particular DNA sequences.
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