Re: [Histonet] Frozen section protocol on rat tendon and/or muscle as well

2014-01-02 Thread Ignacio Ruz Caracuel
Dear Peter: Our muscle freeze protocol is very easy. We employed a small piece of cork of about 1x1cm, we pour a drop of OCT embedding medium and we placed the muscle on it. It´s important not to pour a big drop of OCT, cause it creates holes in the muscle as it infiltrates. Then we cooled isopent

[Histonet] Frozen section protocol on rat tendon and/or muscle as well

2014-01-01 Thread Peter Petro
Dear all, Happy New Year. We are planning to work on rat tendon and frozen section of tendon will be performed. I'd like to ask for a better protocol to preserve, process and section tendon as we found there is a lot of ice crystal (holes) on sections of muscle that seriously affect our subseq