POSTER SESSION V Wednesday, March 26, 2003   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon EXHIBIT HALL A - C TECHNIQUES 190 Diagnostic Utility of Cell Cycle and Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins in Verrucous Squamous Carcinoma (1460) N Boroumand, PA Adegboyega University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 191 Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization of Direct Cytology Smears for the Diagnosis of Synovial Sarcoma (1461) AF Cafaro, Jr, P vanTuinan, C Chang, RN Rao, B Kampalath, VB Shidham Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 192 Detection of EGFR Gene Amplification and Protein Expression by Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization (CISHtm) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC) in a Series of Archival Human Cancers (1486) A Marquez, R Wu, J Zhao, Y Yu, J Tao, Z Shi Zymed Laboratories, Inc., South San Francisco; San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 193 Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Screening Using the Elucigene CF29 ASR Assay and Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype Relationships (1487) BK McLaren, A Farner, CL Hedberg, KL Jones, RJ Baier, ML Nordberg Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 194 Comparison of PCR-RFLP with Allele-Specific PCR in Genetic Testing for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (1504) R Xu, S Ogino, L Va, B-L Wu The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston; Children's Hospital Boston-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 195 Archival Fixed Histological and Cytological Specimens Including Stained and Unstained Materials Are Amenable to RT-PCR (1467) M-Q Du, H Liu, X Huang, Y Zhang, H Ye, A El Hamidi, G Kojan, A Dogan, PG Isaacson University College London, London, United Kingdom 196 Modification of a Method for Amplification of Tumor Sample RNA (1462) A Chakerian, S Merchant, DS Viswanatha University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque, NM 197 Liquid Based Pap Smears as a Source of RNA for Analysis of Gene Expression (1476) EF Hildebrandt, JR Lee, JH Crosby, DG Ferris, MG Anderson Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA 198 D-FISH and Quantitative RT-PCR for the Detection of BCR;ABL in CML: A Comparative Analysis (1483) TK Kimlinger, KC Halling, PJ Heimgartner, GW Dewald, WG Morice Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 199 Expression of the High-Affinity Anticancer Drug Transporter hCNT1 in Normal Tissues Analyzed by Tissue Microarrays (1468) X Farre, M Sanchez-Beato, E Guillen, MJ Acuna, R Pajares, A Diez, L Sanchez, J Casado, M Pastor-Anglada, J Palacios Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain; Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 200 Comparative Evaluation of Small Core (0.6 mm) High Throughput and Large Core (2 mm) 'Low' Throughput Tissue Microarray Techniques (1479) KS Jones, H Yi, ML Prasad Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 201 A Simple Technique To Generate Tissue Microarrays: Utilization of Punch Biopsy of Paraffin Block (1490) A Orucevic, R Hammadeh, S Alkan Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 202 Utility of the Automated Tissue Microarray Machine (1498) L Schumacher, MA Rubin University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 203 Tissue Microarray Profiler: Development of a Relational Database with Internet Interface for Translational Research (1495) MA Rubin, G Tueckmantel, C Ingold, DF Gibbs, V Mahavishnu, AM Chinnaiyan, RW Lieberman University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 204 A Simple and Cheap Method To Produce Home-Made High Density Multi-Tissue Arrays (1502) U Vogel, B Bueltmann Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany 205 Comparison of Proliferation Indices in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) by Whole Tissue Section (WTS) Versus Tissue Microarray (TMA) (1464) AG Chiesa-Vottero, LA Rybicki, RA Prayson Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 206 Cell Culture Block Array: A Powerful Tool for Basic Research Derived from a Method Used in Cytopathology (1485) R Li, J Ni, S Yeh, PA di Sant'Agnese, J Huang University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY