Re: [Histonet] FW: Masson's trichrome stain

2015-03-09 Thread John Kiernan
The notion of plastic forceps is new to me. Where did Justine find it? Nothing in any variant of the Masson procedure should be adversely affected by moving slides with stainless steel forceps. Is there a commercial campaign to sell plastic tweezers to Histonetters? John Kiernan = = = On 08/03

AW: [Histonet] FW: Masson's trichrome stain

2015-03-09 Thread Gudrun Lang
Maybe I am wrong, but I think the usage of plastic forceps for trichrome stains is nonsense. I only know this from silver stains, but also have never seen problems personally. The polyacids have to stay onto the section, when anilinblue is added. There exists a theory, that PMA/PTA acts like a mor

[Histonet] FW: Masson's trichrome stain

2015-03-08 Thread Linda Margraf
Here is a message from Justine... From: Justine Lanzon [mailto:justinelan...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 5:36 AM To: lindamarg...@gmail.com Subject: Masson's trichrome stain Hi, I am doing a write up on Masson's trichrome stain however I cannot answer these two questions: