immunohistochemistryn.
/ˌɪmjᵿnəʊˌhɪstəʊˈkɛmᵻstri/, /ɪˌmjuːnəʊˌhɪstəʊˈkɛmᵻstri/, U.S. /ˌɪmjənoʊˌhɪstəˈkɛməstri/, /ᵻˌmjunoʊˌhɪstəˈkɛməstri/ Medicine and Biology.
The application of immunological methods (such as immunofluorescence, immunoperoxidase, etc.) in histochemistry; the study of the constituents of tissues and cells using such methods. Also: the immunohistochemical characteristics of a cell or tissue type, cellular constituent, etc.
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immunochemistry1907
immunogenetics1947
immunohaematology1948
immunohistochemistry1963
radioimmunology1967
psychoimmunology1982
1963 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 17 54/1 It is also possible that aldehyde fixation may be applicable to studies of immunohistochemistry in which macromolecules must retain their antigenic properties.
1976 Nature 12 Aug. 610/2 Antral gastrin as revealed by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay, appears far earlier.
1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. xii. 318 The most significant developments in the field of immunohistochemistry came from the laboratory of Albert Coons.
1999 Cancer 85 1719 The immunohistochemistry of these tissues was determined using monoclonal antibody against p53 and Ki-67.
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