Folks,
We just moved to a new lab space in a new building. We are currently
running at 45% or lower humidity. I am working with our facilities on
raising the level but I am looking for some references for what level we
should aim for in regard to paraffin cutting. Does anyone have some
ideas or pl
Hello All -
One of the facilities I work closely with has asked me to search for a
travel histo tech. A facility in Orange County, CA needs a contract ASCP
histo tech for a 13 week travel assignment starting somewhat as soon as
possible.
I specialize in placing histo techs on travel and p
Greetings Netters,
For those of you that remember the old metal cassette holders. It seems that
they are no longer available (no surprise), and I cant find anything like them
on the market. They were sold by tissue-tek I think. They are about 4 inches
square and one inch tall. They have 5 rows t
Is anyone out there having problems with their Retic stain on the
Ventana Nexus Special Stainer? Please contact me offline.
Laurie Colbert
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We keep track of our positive cases and only cut one ribbon for use as a
positive control. This way we don't use up the block.
Cindi
>>> Rene J Buesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/18/2008 10:51 AM >>>
The reason why the pathologists are usually reluctant to use (+) cases,
is because if they are used a
We used to cut just a number of slides from each positive block that we
had. This way no block was exhausted in the process.
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The reason why the pathologists are usually reluctant to use (+) cases, is
because if they are used as a (+) controls they will be probably used up
totally within a short period of time and IF there is some sort of legal action
against them or the hospital in one of those cases there will be no
We see this every once in a while, and have traced it to the water
stations on our stainer. They are supposed to be cleaned with bleach
once a week, but that wasn't happening. Another time, we had
contamination on the spigot of our 5 gallon deionized water bottle. We
are supposed to clean that w
We had a similar problem awhile back and traced it to our precut control
slides. We cut certain control slides ahead and store them in slide boxes. We
started seeing fungus where it should not have been. We were just cutting the
control slides, putting the wet slides into the boxes, covering
Thanks everyone! I also thought that we should be using positive patient
controls but our pathologist wasn't to keen on the idea for some reason.
But now with all of your responses maybe we will be.
Thanks again!
Matthew Roark
Histology Specialist -B.S,HT(ASCP)CM
Saint Francis Medical Center
Since gastric biopsy specimens with abundant Helicobacter are rather
common, it's easy to find Helicobacter controls among your own
specimens, and almost every laboratory I've worked in has obtained
controls out of their own material. When I see a case that would make
a good control (not every posi
We are experiencing contamination of GMS and PAS-F stained slides with
a filamentous microorganism, bacterial or possibly fungal. Our flotation
baths and stainers are cleaned daily with Sparkleen and water. We use
distilled water to fill the baths. We use the Ventana system for the
stains, which i
can someone please provide me with a recipe for hirschprung's disease. thanx.
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I would like to make some electrophysiological recordings from mouse
monocytes using an automated planar patchclamp system. The problem is,
that I need at least 1x106cells /ml to do this. I have never isolated
monocytes from mice so I would like to locate a lab in the UK who
routinely isolate pure
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