[Histonet] Need help with equipment for a New Laboratory

2014-09-22 Thread Mitchell Wan
Hi All, I am looking to purchase equipment to set up a new AP laboratory. Looking at second hand quality Leica : Tissue Processors Coverslippers Stainer - preferably ST4040 Any brand: Embedding Centres Low profile Manual microtomes Water Baths Cold Plates Anything to do with

Re: [Histonet] Artifact in IHC

2014-09-22 Thread Geoff
Assuming that the 'crust' is a precipitate, what is it soluble in? Water, alcohol, dilute acid or base? It shows up if you just run the peroxide+DAB rxn? Geoff On 9/19/2014 8:14 AM, Donna Maney wrote: Hello, I've been doing IHC on free-floating brain sections for about 15 years using the

[Histonet] Dako CMV

2014-09-22 Thread Stoll, Kathryn
Hi, I need to work up the Dako CMV for a project. I have an Autostainer Plus and an Autostainer Link 48. Would someone be willing to share their procedure with me? Many Thanks, Kathryn Stoll Supervisor Histology Clinical and Translational Research Core Lab Medical College of Wisconsin 9200

[Histonet] RE: Artifact in IHC

2014-09-22 Thread Teri Johnson
Hi Donna, Interesting conundrum! A few questions: - Do you see it in tissues that have not undergone any staining, just floated in buffer and coverslipped? - Have you tried wet mounting them after staining and prior to dehydration and clearing to see if the artifact is there? - Have you

Re: [Histonet] Dako CMV

2014-09-22 Thread Cindy Bulmer
I use the Dako CMV concentrated Ab with a 1:6000 titer using the Mouse LP and AR 6.0 Hope this help, good luck! Cindy Cynthia Bulmer HT(ASCP)QIHC IHC Supervisor, CTPL Waco, TX From: Stoll, Kathryn kst...@mcw.edu To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu

[Histonet] Re: Processing whole rat heads

2014-09-22 Thread gayle callis
You will need to totally fix the heads over a longer period of time. Perfusion is ideal if you can to that, followed by immersion fixation for a week. Otherwise, simply remove the head and immerse into a very large volume of NBF.If you only want to see is the skull and brain, you can

Re: [Histonet] RE: Artifact in IHC

2014-09-22 Thread Geoff
Teri makes an excellent point about higher alcohols causing precipitation of phosphate salts. Geoff On 9/22/2014 1:17 PM, Teri Johnson wrote: Hi Donna, Interesting conundrum! A few questions: - Do you see it in tissues that have not undergone any staining, just floated in buffer and