Dear Histonet,
I have been employed by the same agency since 1993 as a histotechnologist. I
am responsible for histology, cytology and autopsies. I am the only full-time
technologist. I even do the medical transcription when necessary.
One day I couldn't lift my coffee cup without severe pai
Halon extinguishers have been phased out.
There is now a newer version: Halotron
I really don't know the difference chemically.
Google : personal fire extinguisher computer equipmentit came up with about
3 million hits.
With that you should have a huge number of companies which will have th
Wilson,
If you have access, read this article in the Journal of Histotechnology, Volume
34, Issue 2, pp 65-68, "Gastrointestinal Biopsies: More Action and Less
"Chatter?". It's a good discussion about improving section quality of small
biopsies.
Suggestions included:
Make sure your processi
From: Wilson A
Subject: [Histonet] PROBLEM GETTING GOOD SECTIONS FROM BIOPSIES AND
LIVER BIOPSY
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Hi,
Plea
To guarantee a "good section" two main issues have to be resolved: "good
fixation" leading to "good infiltration".
"Good fixation" depends on the slices of tissue being as thin as possible and
fixed during the adequate time to assure a complete fixation, especially if you
use NBF.
If the "good f
