>From my Grossing Technology book:
Gouty tissue contains monosodium urate crystals. Tissue specimens with gout
diagnosis must be submitted in either Carnoy’s fixative (chloroform, acetic
acid, and absolute ethanol, now almost abandoned in regular practice) or in
absolute ethanol. Fixation
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Hi Histonetters,
Just wondering if or how others are tracking/scanning racks of blocks onto
processors. In this day and age of traceability with barcodes, we scan each
block in each rack before loading onto a processor and recording which
processor that rack went on to. Has anyone
You might like to look at this 1999 article from Microscopy Today, about
keeping sections on slides.
https://publish.uwo.ca/~jkiernan/adhesivs.htm
John Kiernan
London, Canada.
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From: Shirley A. Powell via Histonet
Sent: March 21, 2023 2:56 PM
To: Charles
Hi Charles,
Shirley Powell here in humid Georgia. I ran an IHC reference lab here for many
years. I had a problem with using charged slides for a lot of the tissues I
processed. I used manual and automation methods. My tissues were washing off
a lot. I changed to an adhesive for the
Hello all,
I am in a new position and it will potentially require doing a lot of IHC
testing on cartilage and tendon samples. I have done some practice runs on
my automated stainer and manually and am running into issues with the
tissue sections falling off completely or folding over on itself
