Re: [Histonet] Cutting fresh-frozen brains from 1 week old rat pups

2009-03-18 Thread Merced Leiker
Definitely do at least that one sucrose cryopreservation step you mentioned. Even step up to it in 10% and 20% sucrose. --On Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:04 PM +1100 Adam Galle adam.ga...@student.unsw.edu.au wrote: Hi all, Currently I am working with brains from 7 day old rat pups, that

[Histonet] Cutting fresh-frozen brains from 1 week old rat pups

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Galle
Hi all, Currently I am working with brains from 7 day old rat pups, that undergo an hypoxic-ischemic injury (Levine/Vannucci technique). These brains are unfixed, frozen in isopentane and cut at 20um on a croystat. These brains are not cutting very well compared to an adult brain (potenially