I'm wondering how other muscle histochem labs handle their workflow. Because the histochem stains require frozen sections and a freshly-prepared reagents, and muscle conditions are not usually very time sensitive, we batch all our cutting and staining to one batch per week. We have 5-10 cases a week. We run 6 stains in our standard batch (H&E, Trich, Dual Myosin, SDH, NADH, COX/SDH, MHC-1) and have a menu of 10 extra special stains and 10 immuno stains we can do once the slides are cut.
Do you batch once a week? Batch more often? Cut/stain as they come in? Number of cases per week? Thanks for any info! Tim Morken Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Studies Department of Pathology UC San Francisco Medical Center _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
