title: Combination of immunohistochemistry and laser ablation ICP mass spectrometry for imaging of cancer biomarkers.
abstract: Laser ablation (LA) ICP-MS has been developed as a new tool for imaging of cancer biomarkers in tissue sections. The distribution of two breast cancer-associated proteins, MUC-1 and HER2 was studied based on multiple line rastering of tissue sections and measurement of relevant Au/Ag tagged antibodies bound to the tissue. Comparisons with optical microscopy indicated extremely high sensitivity for the LA technique and sufficiently good resolution to permit fine scale feature mapping at the cellular level. Application to the quantitative assessment of HER2 expression in tissue microarrays was demonstrated.
authors: Centre for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
authors: Jaume
authors: J
authors: Seuma
authors: Josephine
authors: J
authors: Bunch
authors: Alan
authors: A
authors: Cox
authors: Cameron
authors: C
authors: McLeod
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Bell
authors: Cliff
authors: C
authors: Murray
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000378:metabolism*; D001940:Breast / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000379:methods; D018396:Mucin-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D018396:Mucin-1; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; C060192:MUC1 protein, human; C508053:ERBB2 protein, human