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Immunohistochemistry, or IHC, is a technique that utilizes antibodies—products of the immune system—to analyze histological tissues under the microscope . IHC evolved from histochemistry, a technique that utilizes chemical and biochemical techniques for probe histological tissues.
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Kalyuzhny, A.E. (2016). Short Historic Overview. In: Immunohistochemistry. Techniques in Life Science and Biomedicine for the Non-Expert. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30893-7_1
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