[Histonet] Nail treatment and bone marrow decalcification info needed

2013-04-03 Thread carmen loiselle
Hello fellow histonetters , I need your expertise regarding the treatment of nails. We currently immerse the nails specimen in a solution of tween formalin up to 2 weeks . We then process and section them. Is there a more rapid and efficient way to do it ??? Also, we recently change

[Histonet] SOP's reference

2009-10-01 Thread carmen loiselle
Hello everyone, I've been assigned recently to prepare the SOP's for the histology laboratory for the accreditation of my institution that englobes 4 major hospitals, that will take place next september (2010). As you well know it's a very demanding and time consuming task, so I'm asking

[Histonet] Multispecimen tissue blocks /sausage

2009-05-28 Thread carmen loiselle
To all histonetters, I need your expertise for the preparation of sausage multispecimen block for quality control in immunoshistochemistry lab. At first my pathologist wanted to try microarray but because of the cost he had decided to go for sausage instead. I would greatly appreciate

[Histonet] Isopentane

2008-12-16 Thread carmen loiselle
Hello , I currently work in a neuromuscular lab and all muscle biopsies received should be cut frozen, no formalin fixed tissues. My concern though, is to work with isopentane , a well known excellent heat conductor but also it has the bad reputation of being very explosive. In fact , I've