We are not using negative controls. We only add positive controls at the bottom of our patient slides. Sometimes there are 3 different types of control tissue (a TMA), so that you can use the same control block for several antibodies. You could add a negative control in the same block as the positive control and add these at the bottom of your slides (or at the top, if you wish). Willem Hoekert OLVG The Netherlands
________________________________ Van: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu namens Tom McNemar Verzonden: do 16-2-2012 16:27 Aan: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Onderwerp: [Histonet] IHC and negative controls? Hi All, We have one Ventana XT and often exceed the slide capacity. Our pathologists no longer want us to run negatives and will use internal negatives instead. Is this common practice? Thanks. I appreciate any feedback. Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP) Histology Co-ordinator Licking Memorial Health Systems (740) 348-4163 (740) 348-4166 tmcne...@lmhealth.org<mailto:tmcne...@lmhealth.org> www.LMHealth.org<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\TMCNEMAR\Application%20Data\Microsoft\Signatures\www.LMHealth.org <file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/TMCNEMAR/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Signatures/www.LMHealth.org> > ________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, is intended for the sole use of the individual and/or entity to whom it is addressed, and contains information from Licking Memorial Health Systems which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, nor authorized to receive for the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail and attachments is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message immediately. You may also contact the LMH Process Improvement Center at 740-348-4641. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet Disclaimer: Dit e-mail bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerden is niet toegestaan. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent, wordt u verzocht de verzender hiervan op de hoogte te stellen en het bericht te verwijderen. In verband met electronische verzending kunnen aan dit e-mail bericht geen rechten worden ontleend. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
