Re: [Histonet] Histonet Digest, Vol 179, Issue 5

2018-10-05 Thread Amos Brooks via Histonet
Hi, > I have a hunch that the DAB deposits you are seeing are not a DAB problem. You didn't mention how long your incubation time is. If I were to venture a guess, I am thinking there may be some evaporation of either the primary or secondary antibody or boil-over from the antigen retrieval.

Re: [Histonet] Histonet Digest, Vol 179, Issue 4 AFB control

2018-10-05 Thread Steve McClain via Histonet
I was taught it best to use separate controls on a second slide. But in practice, the only cases where a floater appeared it was obvious. In my own lab 14 year experience it has not happened. However, about 10 years ago we started an experiment and switched to 2 AFB slides with pos and neg cont

[Histonet] Special Stain Cost Per Slide

2018-10-05 Thread stephanie h via Histonet
Can anyone using a Dako Artisan give me an idea (ballpark is fine) of what your cost per slide is running? Thank you in advance! ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet

[Histonet] DAB & tissue adherence issues on rabbit bone tissue

2018-10-05 Thread Wilson, Lindsay A via Histonet
Good morning, I am currently experiencing an issue with DAB concentrating on certain bone areas of my slide. I am working with decalcified—EDTA , FFPE- rabbit mandible (some tissue attached). It is a new DAB kit from BioCare. It’s thoroughly mixed (and new) before application in a humidity cham