National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Tissue Microarray

Synonyms

Tissue Microarray

Tissue Arrays

Tissue Chip

TMA

Definitions

A device for use in high-throughput molecular analysis/screening of clinical tissue specimens. Tissue microarrays spatially arrange 500-1000 tumor biopsies or other tissue onto a microarray block, which is then sliced into sections for probing DNA, RNA or protein targets to provide coincident analysis of all specimens in the array. Subsequent sections can be analyzed with additional probes.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C19922

code

C19922

DEFINITION

A device for use in high-throughput molecular analysis/screening of clinical tissue specimens. Tissue microarrays spatially arrange 500-1000 tumor biopsies or other tissue onto a microarray block, which is then sliced into sections for probing DNA, RNA or protein targets to provide coincident analysis of all specimens in the array. Subsequent sections can be analyzed with additional probes.

FULL_SYN

Tissue Microarray

Tissue Arrays

Tissue Chip

TMA

label

Tissue Microarray

Legacy Concept Name

Tissue_Microarray

Preferred_Name

Tissue Microarray

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C19922

Semantic_Type

Research Device

UMLS_CUI

C1519522

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C44282

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