Re: [Histonet] BrdU incorporating and staining

2008-09-16 Thread tf
hi, 1. no idea. 2. yes. if they proliferate. 3. just treat with PBST (Tris-buffered PBS) before your adding of antibody. 4. possibly..just notice some BrdU positive cells could be microglia..be careful of the leakage..and if you dont have a GFP-rat, have you considered of using astrocytes from

[Histonet] Storage of unstained slides? (was Re: Saving unstained slides

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Schneider
Thank you everyone, that was very helpful information. How do you store your unstained slides? Specifically, how do you store them during the initial period between cutting and sign-out, and, if they are kept after sign-out, how are they stored, if differently? We have a not so insignificant

[Histonet] NSE histochemical stain

2008-09-16 Thread Sharon Allen
Hi, I am looking for some help with NSE histology staining on frozen muscle tissue. I would really like a method, with all the little tricks (if any), that is working well for someone. I have been trying the method from Dubowitz (Muscle Biopsy, A Practical Approach the Armed Forces Institute

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2008-09-16 Thread TOJO (Torben Seested Johansen)
Hi, I do not seem to be able to achieve acceptble morphology of perfused rat liver. I seems as if some of the cytosol of the hepatocytes are washed away as seen in toluidine blue stained cryo-sections (see image18.jpg). I am to use the tissue cryo-sections in immunohistochemistry and

[Histonet] Amyloid

2008-09-16 Thread Webb, Dorothy L
We have been cutting our tissue for amyloid staining @ 8 microns. One of my pathologists heard that 10 microns is now standard and to use a negative and weakly positive control. Does anyone have any new information in this area? Thanks ahead of time! Dorothy Webb, HT (ASCP) Histology

Re: [Histonet] (no subject)

2008-09-16 Thread Geoff McAuliffe
Dear Tojo: Your problem could be due to 3 things. 1. Waiting too long to fix the tissue. 2. Freezing too slowly. 3. Interpreting the lack of staining of hepatocyte glycogen as an artifact. 1. You are waiting 5 minutes after death to fix the tissue. There is absolutely NO reason to spend

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2008-09-16 Thread anita dudley
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