As far as I know such a large thin section that also involves decalcifying hard bones has never been published. In the past E. Leitz (now Leica) manufactured sliding microtomes for large specimens but were used mostly to prepare thin brain sections embedded in celloidin but not for what you would like to do. If you are able to do it, for sure we all would like to know. René J.
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Yak-Nam Wang <ynw...@u.washington.edu> wrote: From: Yak-Nam Wang <ynw...@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Whole human feet To: "Woodward, Denise" <denise.woodw...@uconn.edu> Cc: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 4:26 PM Denise, Thanks, someone else pointed out these images and they are indeed in the correct plane (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/image/feet.jpg). I think these are 1 mm sections from a frozen body, unstained. We were actually hoping that we could process feet (procured from a company), section and stain the sections with the basic H&E, modified Hart's, Picro sirius red and such like. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Yak-Nam On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Woodward, Denise <denise.woodw...@uconn.edu > wrote: > I believe there is a computerized image file of an entire male and a > female human body somewhere on the WWW. Maybe NIH?? These were whole mount > histologic sections. Don't know if the plane is correct for your needs with > regard to the sections of feet. News about it came out about 4-5 years ago. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto: > histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Bernie Taupin > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:07 AM > To: Yak-Nam Wang; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: Re: [Histonet] Whole human feet > > No offense, dude, but GROSS. > > That's probably why nobody has bitten yet, in regards to this query. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Yak-Nam Wang <ynw...@u.washington.edu> > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:04:54 PM > Subject: [Histonet] Whole human feet > > Hello all, > > If possible, we would like to obtain histological sections of adult human > feet (plane of the anterior-posterior surface). Does anyone know of > labs/groups that have done this or something similar? > > Thank you for your help > Yak-Nam Wang > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet