Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39424720›Full record

ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Laser-Based Microdissection of Single Cells from Tissue Sections and PCR Analysis of Rearranged Immunoglobulin Genes from Isolated Normal and Malignant Human B Cells.

Ralf Küppers, Martin-Leo Hansmann

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ralf KüppersInstitute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, Medical School, Essen, Germany. ralf.kueppers@uk-essen.de.
Martin-Leo HansmannFrankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Normal and malignant B cells carry rearranged immunoglobulin (Ig) variable region genes, which due to their practically limitless diversity represent ideal clonal markers for these cells. We describe here an approach to isolate single cells from frozen tissue sections by microdissection using a laser-based method. From the DNA of the isolated cells, rearranged IgH and Igκ genes are amplified in a semi-nested PCR approach, using a collection of IGV gene subgroup-specific primers recognizing nearly all IGV genes together with primers for the J genes. By sequence analysis of IGV region genes from distinct cells, the clonal relationship of the B-lineage cells can unequivocally be determined and related to the histological distribution of the cells. The approach is also useful to determine V, D and J gene usage. Moreover, the presence and pattern of somatic IGV gene mutations give valuable insight into the differentiation stage of the B cells.

Indexed as

B-LymphocytesLaser Capture MicrodissectionPolymerase Chain ReactionGenes, ImmunoglobulinHumansImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionLasersMicrodissectionSingle-Cell AnalysisImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionB-cell lymphomaB cellsClonalityHodgkin lymphomaMicrodissectionSingle cell PCRSomatic hypermutationTaq DNA polymerase errorsV-gene recombination

Identifiers

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.