Hi Histonetters!!!
Did you know that tomorrow Tuesday, March 10 is Histotechnology
Professionals Day?
The National Society for Histotechnology has some great suggestions for ways
to celebrate.
Here is the link:
http://www.nsh.org/content/histotechnology-professionals-day
What are you doing to
Maybe I am wrong, but I think the usage of plastic forceps for trichrome
stains is nonsense. I only know this from silver stains, but also have never
seen problems personally.
The polyacids have to stay onto the section, when anilinblue is added. There
exists a theory, that PMA/PTA acts like a
Hi all,
We received some old slides (1997-1998) that were coverslipped with film.
Sakura I would imagine. The issue here is that the coverslips have come up from
the slide and the tissue is adhered to the back of the coverslip. They need to
be recovered so they can be evaluated. What do you all
Remove the film coverslip by placing the slide in acetone for a few minutes.
Then recoverslip the slide with your current method.
Jason McGough, HT(ASCP)
Operations Manager
Clinical Laboratory of the Black Hills
605-343-2267
jmcgo...@clinlab.com mailto:jmcgo...@clinlab.com
Try this article...
Acta Cytol. 2003 Nov-Dec;47(6):1043-4.
Alternative, cost-effective fungus-staining method for control slides in
cytology and histopathology.
da Silva VD1.
Author information
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To develop a cost-effective, reliable and safe method of providing fungal
control
The notion of plastic forceps is new to me. Where did Justine find it? Nothing
in any variant of the Masson procedure should be adversely affected by moving
slides with stainless steel forceps. Is there a commercial campaign to sell
plastic tweezers to Histonetters?
John Kiernan
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On
Have you done this? Acetone does not dissolve resinous mounting media and allow
removal of coverslips. It's all in the books; buy one.
John Kiernan
Anatomy Cell Biology, UWO
London, Canada
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On 09/03/15, Jason McGough jmcgo...@clinlab.com wrote:
Remove the film coverslip by placing the
