von Weizsäcker F, Labeit S, Koch H K, Oehlert W, Gerok W, Blum H E
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1991 Jan 15;174(1):176-80. doi: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)90502-x.
A simple and rapid method for the extraction, reverse transcription and PCR amplification of RNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue is described. The procedure can be completed within 24 hours. In a first application of this method we detect human albumin mRNA in liver tissue, demonstrating the feasibility to retrospectively analyze gene expression and RNA viruses in fixed tissue.