Hi Everyone
Just for clarification; our current practice involves a mixture of placing racks of slides in an oven for 25 minutes, or using the hot area of an autostainer (we're talking H&E's here, BTW). Occasionally, with a particularly urgent case us old-timers will place individual slides directly onto the floor of an oven for 5 mins which bakes the sections onto the slides very nicely prior to staining. My theory is that a 60-70 celsius hotplate will perform the same job for all of our H&E slides. So far, I haven't noticed any particular artefacts, and we don't suffer from water pooling between section and slide anyway. I'm trying to find both the "leanest" and cheap (hey - this is the NHS!) solution by consolidating four stainers and three coverslippers into just the two machines. Maybe I've not looked closely enough at our super-urgent H&E's... Thanks Phil ---------------------------------------- Phil Gibson Senior Biomedical Scientist Histopathology Dept Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP Ext. 24565 Tel. 0191 2824565 This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
