[Histonet] Sectioning in sliding microtome issues

2013-04-03 Thread Maria De Los Angeles Navas
Hello All, We section fixed frozen brain that we mount on the microtome using either 30% sucrose or OCT and we keep the temperature down by surrounding the tissue with crushed dry ice constantly (every 10 minutes). One of the problems I have had, and also the person who trained me also had, is

[Histonet] Thawing brain tissue

2013-03-14 Thread Maria De Los Angeles Navas
Hello Histonet community, I recently froze a primate brain using isopentane immerse in a bath of 100% ethanol and chunks of dry ice. Two out of the 3 blocks froze fine but the third one shows a very bad convex surface, although to be fair, the defective block was embedded in gelatin while the