CK 7
Description- Cytokeratin 7 reacts with most glandular and transitional epithelia such as breast, lung, bladder, female genital tract, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, and bile duct. It is present with subtypes of ovarian, pulmonary, and breast adenocarcinomas, transitional-cell carcinomas, tumors of female genital tract, urothelial carcinomas, breast carcinomas, and lung carcinomas
Methodology: Immunohistochemistry
TAT: 3-5 days
Specimen Preparation
Collect - tissue /or cell
Specimen Preparation- formal fix (10 % neutral buffered formalin) and paraffin enter specimen (FFPE specimens square measure needed). shield paraffin block or slides from uncontrolled heat. Transport tissue block or five unstained (3-micron thick sections), charged slides during a tissue transport kit. (Min: a pair of slides). If causing precut slides, don't over heat it.
Storage/Transport Temperature- At temperature or cold. Transport it in cooled instrumentation throughout weather.
Unacceptable conditions- i) Specimens submitted with non-marked/tagged tissue sort square measure rejected.
ii) Depleted specimens aren't tested.
Stability- i) Ambient: Indefinitely;
ii) Refrigerated: Indefinitely;
iii) Frozen: Unacceptable

