[Histonet] I will be out of office beginning the afternoon of 6/3/2010 returning 3/24/2010

2010-06-04 Thread Marilyn . A . Weiss
I will be out of the office starting 06/03/2010 and will not return until 06/07/2010. .In my absence please ask for Mary Campbell . If this is urgent you can contact me on my cell phone number 858-472-4266. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.uts

Re: [Histonet] H&E Stainer Validations

2010-06-04 Thread Rene J Buesa
Albert: In histology there are only very few standards. That is why CAP has a check list when inspecting histolabs. If you are doing a "validation", get as many different tissue sections as you can. Stain them "as usual" (namely using the method you are trying to substitute). Stain identical sec

Re: [Histonet] PARAPLAST QUALITY

2010-06-04 Thread Langenberg, Stacey
We use paraplast Xtra supplied from Leica\Surgipath and have seen no problems whatsoever. Stacey Langenberg Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Karen Kay Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:43:05 To: 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: [Histonet] PARAPLAST QUALITY G

[Histonet] PARAPLAST QUALITY

2010-06-04 Thread Karen Kay
Good Morning, Our Paraplast has also been produced by McCormick and to this point have not seen any issues. However it is my understanding that Leica(Surgipath) has taken over as supplier and producer of the Paraplast (trademark). This information was relayed to us by our Surgipath representa

[Histonet] Control Blocks

2010-06-04 Thread Knutson, Deanne
Hello, Does anyone out there have positive Pneumocystis control blocks that they may want to trade with? We have some positive GRAM control blocks that we could exchange. Please let me know. Thank you so much! Deanne Knutson Anatomic Pathology Supervisor St. Alexius Medical Center (701)-530

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[Histonet] H&E Stainer Validations

2010-06-04 Thread Santiago, Albert
Hello fellow Histonetters, I'm going to Demo a new H&E stainer and I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a standard H&E Validation protocol or if it just varies from lab to lab? Thanks for your help :-) Albert Santiago, HT(ASCP) Laboratory Manager Dermatopathology 215-662-6759/6539-office

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2010-06-04 Thread McCormick, James
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[Histonet] RE: INI-1

2010-06-04 Thread McMahon, Loralee A
We have been using an INI-1 from Cell Marque. With a 1/50 dilution and a low pH heat retrieval. Although I accidently had a slide go through the higher pH heat retrieval and I didn't see a big difference in the staining. I use the Dako system so it was a 30 minute incubation with a linker add

[Histonet] AW: INI-1

2010-06-04 Thread Kappeler, Andreas (PATHOLOGY)
Hi Hazel We use INI-1, clone 25/BAF47, BD Transduction 612110. Working conc. is 2.5 mg Ig/l (1:100), HIER at high pH with a somewhat strange buffer (800 mM urea, 100 mM Tris, pH 9.5), but you may try EDTA-based HIER solutions, pH 8.8-9.5. Incubation at RT, 60 min. Visualization with polymer-bas

Re: [Histonet] Paraplast

2010-06-04 Thread DKBoyd
We use Richard Allen, Type 6 for both impregnation and embedding. Debbie M. Boyd, HT(ASCP) l Chief Histologist l Southside Regional Medical Center I 200 Medical Park Boulevard l Petersburg, Va. 23805 l T: 804-765-5050 l F: 804-765-5582 l dkb...@chs.net "Rebecca Johnson" Sent by: histo

[Histonet] INI-1

2010-06-04 Thread Horn, Hazel V
We are having problems with this immunostain. If your lab is successfully using this antibody will you please help me out? Where do you purchase your antibody? Is it RTU? What type of antigen retrieval? Incubation time? Thanks. Hazel Horn Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP) Supervisor of Histol

RE: [Histonet] coverslippers

2010-06-04 Thread Horn, Hazel V
We love our CV5030 glass coverslipper. It integrates with their stainer for a seamless flow. It's so nice to put the slides on to stain and have them coverslipped when they come off. Hazel Horn Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP) Supervisor of Histology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's WaySl

[Histonet] coverslippers

2010-06-04 Thread Gale Limron
We are currently evaluating coverslippers and I'd appreciate any info/opinions on the following: Hacker HCM 6000 TBS SHUR/Mount Thermo Scientific (Shandon) ClearVue Tissue-Tek Glas g2 Leica CV5030 We will be looking at stainers within a couple of years so this is something we need to consider a