Semantic resources project/Antibodies/Revised Methods/Immunocytochemistry

Description
Immunocytochemistry

Outline
Works with cells, distinguished from immunohistochemistry (which works with tissues)

I'm really unclear as to how immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry, as categories, improve our relative understanding of things.

Ontology Terms
NIFSTD: "Immunocytochemistry"
 * http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/DigitalEntities/NIF-Investigation.owl#nlx_inv_20090608
 * http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/40510/p17%253Anlx_inv_20090608

NCI Thesaurus: "Immunocytochemistry"
 * http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Immunocytochemistry
 * http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/40377/Immunocytochemistry
 * "A laboratory tissue staining procedure involving monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies that react with specific tissue antigens. Initially used as a research tool, immunocytochemistry has become routine in diagnostic work-up of diseases in pathology. -- 2004"

Usage
"'Immunocytochemistry proved to be an easy and valuable technique for the identification and classification of tumor cells, and there was a good concordance with immunohistology.'"

From Flens et al. "The contribution of immunocytochemistry in diagnostic cytology. Comparison and evaluation with immunohistology" Cancer 65:12,2704-2711. (June 2006)

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