POSTER SESSION II Monday, March 8, 2004   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall B and C TECHNIQUES 189 Utility of a-Methylacyl Coenzyme A Racemase (p504S Antibody) as a Diagnostic Immunohistochemical Marker for Cancer (1518) A Nassar, MB Amin, D Sexton, C Cohen - Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 190 Low-Cost Tissue Microarrays (TMA) Constructed with a Common Microcompound Table (1533) UF Vogel, BD Bueltmann - Institute of Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany 191 HMB45 Immunoreactive Single Cells in Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Nodes Negative for Melanoma Micrometastases Are Mast Cells (1528) VB Shidham, B Susnik, RN Rao, M Chivukula, B Kampalath, R Komorowski - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 192 CD117 Oncoprotein Overexpression in Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (1495) B Erler, M Finch, A Hodges, K Horowitz, T Matulewicz, A Topilow - Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ 193 Rapid and Low Cost Image Analysis for Tissue Microarray Immunohistochemistry (1493) LK Diaz, L Huo, J Herm, D. Wang, R Clatch - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Cell Analysis Inc., Highland Park, IL; Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL 194 A Simple Method for Creating Tissue Microarrays from Prostate Needle Biopsies (1509) A Kajdacsy-Balla, V Macias, T Brodzeller, MW Datta - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 195 Somatostatin Receptor 2 (sst2) Immunostaining in Gastro-Intestinal and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma (1492) BR De Young, T O'Dorisio, FA Mitros, MS O'Dorisio - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 196 Reproducibility of Inform In-Situ Hybridization Assay for Human Papilloma Virus Detection in PreservCyt Specimens Stored over a Prolonged Time Period (1526) P Ringer, A Pagan, RD Rudelli, MN Queshi - Lakewood Pathology Associates, Lakewood, NJ; Bayonne Medical Center, Bayonne, NJ 197 Automated Detection of Cytokeratin Positive (CK+) Cells in Bone Marrow Aspirates (BMA) from Breast Cancer Patients (1488) X Chen, SA Hoda, A Chadburn, YF Liu, E Hyjek - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 198 Reproducibility of Quantitative Gene Expression Analysis by a New RT-PCR Assay Using Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissues: A Molecular Tomographic Scanning Study (1491) M Cronin, D Watson, D Dutta, M-L Liu, M Pho, J Esteban, R Baehner, J Baker, S Shak - Providence-St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, CA; UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Genomic Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA 199 T-Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangements in Cutaneous T-Cell Lesions: Old Lesions Revisited with New Technology (1503) SC Heard, M Lowery-Nordberg, L Ma - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Shreveport, LA 200 Frequency of IVS14+1G>A Mutation Causing DPD Deficiency: Associated with Lethal Outcome in Patients on 5 Flurouracil Treatment (1529) D Shukla, L Rogers MT (ASCP), S Saccaros, ML Nordberg PhD - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Feist-Weiller Cancere Center, Shreveport, LA 201 Detection of Malignant Cells in Cytology Specimens Using the GENIE Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (1478) C Angeletti, NR Harvey, V Khomitch, R Levenson, DL Rimm - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; CRI, Inc, Woburn, MA 202 Increased Sensitivity of 2 Dimensional-Difference Gel Electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) Using a New Generation of Cyanine Fluorescent Dyes and Protein Identifications by MALDI-TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometry (1500) O Greengauz-Roberts, JR Lee, S Nomura, H Yamaguchi, JR Goldenring, WS Dynan - Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 203 Virtual Flow Cytometry (1482) KJ Bloom, S Chen, FE Espinosa - US Labs, Irvine, CA 204 Detection of Cyclin D1 Gene Amplification by Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization (CISH) in Archived Breast Cancers (1534) R Wu, A Marquez, J Zhao, J Tao, Z Shi - R&D, Zymed Laboratories, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 205 Gene Silencing in Hepatocytes Ex Vivo Using Lentiviral Vector Delivery of Small Interfering RNA (1521) ER Ochoa, S Sarkar, L Zhu - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 206 Spectroscopic Unmixing of Myocardial Autofluorescence from GFP Expressed by Bone Marrow-Derived SP Cells in a Porcine Myocardial Infarction Model (1525) N Rezai, H Heine, R Lowe, J Saw, H Leong, K Qayumi, J Hamburger, BM McManus, A Lee, PM Lansdorp, TJ Podor - St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 207 Unique Applications of a Fluorescent Microsatellite Assay in Anatomic Pathology (1485) M Cankovic, MD Linden, AR Gaba, RJ Zarbo - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 208 A Unique Specimen Triage Method To Optimize the Handling of Specimens Submitted for Molecular Studies and Flow Cytometry To Rule out Lymphoma (1538) Z Zaki, K Hewan-Lowe, L Dobbs - Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 209 Mutational Analysis of p53, K-ras and B-raf in TMAs Using Laser Capture Mircrodissection (1505) WL Ince, P Tobin, L Fu, R Zhang, KJ Hillan, H Koeppen - Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 210 Validation of Laser Microdissection for the Expression Profiling of Endothelial Cells (1508) AM Jubb, LA Strickland, H Koeppen - Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA 211 Express Yourself by Normalizing Your Microarray Data: Validation of a Novel Internet-Based Software Program Using Prostate Cancer Cell Lines (1502) L He, TE Royce, NM Luscombe, I Maine, M Gerstein, J Macoska, AM Chinnaiyan, MA Rubin - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 212 Early Diagnosis of Amyloid - Is Proteomics an Answer?; Preliminary Experience with SELDI-TOF Studies of Myocardial Biopsies (1523) MM Picken, M Morgan, RN Picken - Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, IL"