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Wiley, Cytometry, 5(9), p. 494-498, 1988

DOI: 10.1002/cyto.990090515

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Buss D. Case D How reproducible are flow cytometry data from paraffin embedded blocks?

Journal article published in 1988 by B. Gregory, J. Galleshaw, T. E. Kute, M. Hopkins, D. Buss, D. Case
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The purpose of this technical report is to determine the reproducibility of flow cytometry data for ploidy and cell cycle kinetics using paraffin-embedded blocks of breast cancer tissue. One block from each of 39 tumors was studied in this report with each block having multiple sections analyzed independently. All of these sections gave ploidy analyses, while only 34 gave cell kinetic values. The standard deviation for the DNA index value in the multiple analysis study was less than 0.1 in all but three cases. The cell kinetic values gave larger variability, and the actual values were dependent on the method of analysis. Comparison of the variability for each method of analysis could not predict which procedure was superior. These results would indicate that ploidy is a reproducible value, while cell kinetic parameters should only be used as an indicator of proliferative activity that has been normalized to the mean or median of a large set of observations processed and analyzed by the same procedure.