Hello everybody,
we are buying a new tissue processor for the lab and, at the moment, we
are considering these three models:
Thermo Excelsior AS
Leica HistoCore PEARL
SLL MTM I/II
I would very much appreciate your thoughts/experience regarding any of
these models. We are a small research
Happy Thursday,
We would like to sell our slightly used but in excellent condition Dako
Coverslipper which was purchased in 2010 just for $10K (purchase price was $
25K). The instrument can handle up to 600 slides per hour making it one of the
fastest on the market. In addition to the
Dear histonetters!
I have difficulties with my FISH preparation on FFPET. I struggle with
massive background. It looks like a thick fluorescent film.
The signals can't be seen because of the background. Even the nuclei are
hard to see.
The background is within the tissue but also surrounds it.
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Thanks for your advice.
I use adhesive slides from Leica. Years ago we had Superfrosts of another
brand (maybe Thermo) and I can't remember similar issues.
Can you recommend a special brand for FISH?
Have you ever tried to do FISH on a slide without adhesion?
Gudrun
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Hi Gudrun,
Are you sure you have digested long enough with pepsin? If the tissue is
not well digested you will see background. We use sodium thiocyanate for
pretreatment reagent, not citric buffer. These are my first thoughts.
Mark
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:18 AM Gudrun Lang via Histonet <
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