I've been told Eosin affects a lot of molecular testing. We used to use it in our process but discontinued to not interfere with future testing.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:31 PM, "Morken, Timothy" <timothy.mor...@ucsf.edu> > wrote: > > We use eosin the processor alcohol. Also we use blue-tinted paraffin which > helps with contrast on small bx > > Tim Morken > Supervisor, Histology, Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Special Studies > UC San Francisco Medical Center > San Francisco, CA > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential, > proprietary, and/or privileged information protected by law. If you are not > the intended recipient, you may not use, copy, or distribute this email > message or its attachments. If you believe you have received this email > message in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all > copies of the original message. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Yves Heremans > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:03 PM > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: [Histonet] marking small samples > > Dear Histonetters, > > Does anyone know of a good method to mark (stain) small samples (tissue or > cells) prior to paraffin embedding to aid in finding back more easily the > sample in the paraffin block ? > Preferably something that would not interfere with subsequent antibody > staining. > > Yves > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
