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. 2012 Aug;4(Suppl 2):S307-9.
doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.100281.

Applications of immunohistochemistry

Jeyapradha Duraiyan  1 , Rajeshwar Govindarajan, Karunakaran Kaliyappan, Murugesan Palanisamy
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Applications of immunohistochemistry

Jeyapradha Duraiyan et al. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is an important application of monoclonal as well as polyclonal antibodies to determine the tissue distribution of an antigen of interest in health and disease. IHC is widely used for diagnosis of cancers; specific tumor antigens are expressed de novo or up-regulated in certain cancers. This article deals with the various applications of IHC in diagnosis of diseases, with IHC playing an important role in diagnostic and research laboratories.

Keywords: Antibody; antigen; disease; immunohistochemistry.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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