[Histonet] Semen Analysis Training

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Duffett
Does anyone know of a facility in the North Jersey or New York City area that has a semen analysis training program. We are looking for motility and morphology. We are familiar with the Cleveland Clinic program but it is a distance as well as expensive. Any input or suggestions would be helpful.

[Histonet] CRYOSTAT RECOMMENDATIONSRE: Histonet Digest, Vol 125, Issue 24

2014-04-21 Thread Karen Kay
Good ;Morning, We have the Leica 1950 in our Laboratory and are extremely pleased with the insturment. Karen J Kay, MLT Supervisor - Histopathology and Cytology Laboratory Chinook Regional Hospital - South Zone West - Alberta Health Services Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada karen@albertahealthser

[Histonet] RE: Xylene substitute for processing GI biopsies

2014-04-21 Thread Donna Millard
Joe, Yes. We are about to go xylene-free (though we are still planning on using if for cleaning, because the feedback we got was that we still needed to clean the processors with xylene or we would run into problems, and my supervisor heard from people that they had to go back to xylene flushing

Re: [Histonet] RE: Recommendations cryostat

2014-04-21 Thread Kim Tournear
Definitely Leica Sent from the iPhone of Kim Tournear 🇺🇸 😃 On Apr 21, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Bea DeBrosse-Serra wrote: > Leica! > > Beatrice DeBrosse-Serra HT(ASCP)QIHC > Isis Pharmaceuticals > Antisense Drug Discovery > 2855 Gazelle Ct. > Carlsbad, CA 92010 > 760-603-2371 > > > > -Original

[Histonet] anti mouse iNOS

2014-04-21 Thread Anna Hughes
Hi Everyone! Anyone have a good antibody for an anti mouse iNOS antibody that they especially like? Thanks! Anna Anna C. Hughes anna.c.hug...@gsk.com ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman

[Histonet] RE: Recommendations cryostat

2014-04-21 Thread Bea DeBrosse-Serra
Leica! Beatrice DeBrosse-Serra HT(ASCP)QIHC Isis Pharmaceuticals Antisense Drug Discovery 2855 Gazelle Ct. Carlsbad, CA 92010 760-603-2371 -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Pathology-Histo

RE: [Histonet] Recommendations cryostat

2014-04-21 Thread WILLIAM DESALVO
Best recommendation I can provide is the Leica 1950 was the hands down choice of the employees performing frozen sections at multiple hospital sites in my system. From my perspective, the instruments are very reliable, easy to use, easy to maintain and pathologists approve of the the slide quali

[Histonet] COM 30450

2014-04-21 Thread Piche, Jessica
Hello Everyone, Does COM 30450 apply to Diff Quik kits and reagents used in special stains (other stain kits)? Or does the lot to lot testing only apply to things such as IHC? Thank you, Jessica Piche, HT(ASCP) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments contain confidential inf

[Histonet] RE: Paraffin

2014-04-21 Thread Cameron, Elizabeth
I am still trying to figure out what I need to do for validation for CAP. Do I need to revalidate IHC and/or special stains if I change the paraffin on the processor? The paraffin I have in mind is supposed to work faster than the one we currently use for infiltration, so we may need to adjust

Re: [Histonet] Xylene substitute for processing GI biopsies

2014-04-21 Thread Rene J Buesa
Theoretically YES! René J. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:36 PM, "Joe W. Walker, Jr." wrote: Are you required to revalidate all of your IHC antibodies once you switch to a xylene sub? We had utilized a xylene free process in our Peloris, which utilized alcohol but we ran into issue with FISH fo

[Histonet] Recommendations cryostat

2014-04-21 Thread Pathology-Histology Sr. Supervisor
Hi All, We are going to buy cryostat so opinion required CM 1950 LEICA verses HM525 NX Thermo. Regards Muhammad Tahseen SKMCH&RC ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet

[Histonet] Alport's testing

2014-04-21 Thread Houston, Ronald
Does anyone test for Alport's (alpha 1, 3 & 5 chains of collagen IV) on paraffin sections? Ronnie Houston, MS HT(ASCP)QIHC Anatomic Pathology Manager ChildLab, a Division of Nationwide Children's Hospital www.childlab.com 700 Children's Drive Columbus, OH 43205 (P) 614-722-5450 (F) 614-722-2899