I don't know this person, so I'll answer in general.
I get a lot of these types of requests at my school. Most seem to be from
the Middle East or Africa. When emailing with them, it mostly appears that
they just want to find a quicker way to get into the US.
Realize that in most cases, if they
Hi listmembers,
In our lab the unstained IHC-slides are thrown away. Now one slide of each
case should be stored in an adequate manner to perform an insitu
hybridization if required in the future.
I want to store it unstained but deparaffinized and coverslipped. So that it
can be filed with the
I work with many GI biopsies and occassionally we send off slides for testing
for MSI (Microsattelite Instability). This is a test for Hereditary
Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch Sydrome. The IHC
tests for normal gene expression. You can google HNPCC or MSI and find
Dako doesn't even manufacture an IHC stainer unless you count the Eridan which
was a failure. The instrument that they distribute is manufactured by Lab
Vision/ now Thermo Shandon and hardly a dinosaur. If a person doesn't know the
theory behind doing IHC or can't perform IHC on the bench then
The Dako Eridan was never released, thus is a moot point, and agree that the
current open platform Dako offers is very flexible for a variety of uses - with
a caveat. Different instruments require different levels of IHC experience,
IHC confort level, and who pre-screens stained slides prior
Some of my recent posts to the Histonet Listserver have bee garbled, although
other emails that I send are OK. These few lines are sent as plain text to see
if they look OK when distributed to the List.
This is a second paragraph.
John K.
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Some of my recent posts to the Histonet Listserver have bee garbled, although
other emails that I send are OK. These few lines are sent as rich (HTML) text
(HTML) to see if they look OK when distributed to the List.
This is a second paragraph.
John K.
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Cellulose isn't a mammalian tisssue element, but there's usually some to be
seen in the lumen of the alimentary tract, especially stomach and colon, of
rats, mice etc.
Cellulose is PAS-positive. It's also birefringent (if you have a microscope
with polarizing filters), but mostly it shows up
