[Histonet] Lot to Lot Verification

2015-05-18 Thread Histology Technician
Does anyone have a Lot to Lot Verification form you'd like to share?  Trying to make one up for my lab and figure out the procedure...do you log every supply you use in the lab onto the form?  QC it and log the date/tech initial? Thanks! ___ Histonet

[Histonet] embedding center backup

2015-05-18 Thread Stacy McLaughlin
Happy Monday in Histoland, How many of you out there have a backup embedding center or paraffin dispenser for a backup? We are a smaller lab (10k surgical cases/year). We only have one embedding center and I want to ask what others out there are doing. Thank you, Stacy Stacy McLaughlin,

Re: [Histonet] OJT Histotechs/Training

2015-05-18 Thread Loralei Dewe
I have a different perspective on this issue. I have been in histology for over 20 years. I worked at UC Davis in Vet. Histopath for several years. I was a histology Core facility manager and started up the facility from scratch at UC Davis Health system while running a Core Confocal microscope

Re: [Histonet] embedding center backup

2015-05-18 Thread Rathborne, Toni
Stacy, Our volume is similar, and we do have a backup embedding center. I'm sure that you could get a used one for much less than a new one to have just for this purpose. Toni -Original Message- From: Stacy McLaughlin [mailto:stacy_mclaugh...@cooley-dickinson.org] Sent: Monday, May

Re: [Histonet] OJT Histotechs/Training

2015-05-18 Thread Joelle Weaver
Research is a different world than clinical. That's not fun. Can you pursue your degree if you haven't already and then do a 1 year under a clinical pathologist? It took me awhile to my clinical hours since I working full time in pharmacy and in histology school fulltime, but it was worth it.

Re: [Histonet] OJT Histotechs/Training

2015-05-18 Thread Marcum, Pamela A
I took my registry while I was doing neuroanatomical research on animals. At the time I took it I was told do not use animal tissue or you will fail. I had to find someone with a clinical Histology lab who would allow me to come in for my practical exam work. I just had to prove myself when

[Histonet] Fwd: instrument manuals

2015-05-18 Thread yesyes
- Forwarded Message - From: yes...@comcast.net To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 7:22:59 PM Subject: instrument manuals Hi, I'm doing some labkeeping and fould some old instrument manuals.  If anyone is interested in them, let me know and I can send

[Histonet] RSV+ tissue

2015-05-18 Thread Cartun, Richard
We recently performed an autopsy on a patient who died of complications related to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). We were able to label RSV in the formalin-fixed lung tissue using immunohistochemistry (or what I now call Morphologic Proteomics). I can provide unstained slides (maybe even

[Histonet] instrument manuals

2015-05-18 Thread yesyes
Hi, I'm doing some labkeeping and fould some old instrument manuals.  If anyone is interested in them, let me know and I can send them to you.   Shandon Embedding Center Model 6404  - old model Leica RM 2125  Rotary microtome Hyperclean Fume extraction hood Tissue Tek VIP 5 operating

Re: [Histonet] RE..... murine CD4, CD8 and CD68 for FFPE tissue

2015-05-18 Thread Hobbs, Carl
I use the anti CD68 clone FA-11 ( obtained from Abcam). It works very well on frozen sections but, I have been unable to get any positivity on Pwax sections ( using +/- Citric acid pH6 HIER) Carl ___ Histonet mailing list