TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Stefanakis, Mona A1 - Bassler, Miriam A1 - Walczuch, Tobias A1 - Gerhard-Hartmann, Elena A1 - Youssef, Almoatazbellah A1 - Scherzad, Agmal A1 - Stöth, Manuel A1 - Ostertag, Edwin A1 - Hagen, Rudolf A1 - Steinke, Maria A1 - Hackenberg, Stephan A1 - Brecht, Marc A1 - Meyer, Till T1 - The impact of tissue preparation on salivary gland tumors investigated by Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy JF - Journal of clinical medicine N2 - Due to the wide variety of benign and malignant salivary gland tumors, classification and malignant behavior determination based on histomorphological criteria can be difficult and sometimes impossible. Spectroscopical procedures can acquire molecular biological information without destroying the tissue within the measurement processes. Since several tissue preparation procedures exist, our study investigated the impact of these preparations on the chemical composition of healthy and tumorous salivary gland tissue by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy. Sequential tissue cross-sections were prepared from native, formalin-fixed and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue and analyzed. The FFPE cross-sections were dewaxed and remeasured. By using principal component analysis (PCA) combined with a discriminant analysis (DA), robust models for the distinction of sample preparations were built individually for each parotid tissue type. As a result, the PCA-DA model evaluation showed a high similarity between native and formalin-fixed tissues based on their chemical composition. Thus, formalin-fixed tissues are highly representative of the native samples and facilitate a transfer from scientific laboratory analysis into the clinical routine due to their robust nature. Furthermore, the dewaxing of the cross-sections entails the loss of molecular information. Our study successfully demonstrated how FTIR microspectroscopy can be used as a powerful tool within existing clinical workflows. KW - formalin KW - fixation KW - tissue preparation KW - salivary gland neoplasia KW - FTIR spectroscopy KW - principal component analysis KW - discriminant analysis Y1 - 2023 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-41539 SN - 2077-0383 SS - 2077-0383 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020569 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020569 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 17 S1 - 17 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER -