[Histonet] Help! Losing sections from Superfrost Plus Slides

2009-12-09 Thread Angelina Fong
Hi all, We have suddenly started losing tissue sections from our Superfrost Plus Slides. Our students have been cutting fixed, frozen, cryosections (20um) and thaw-mounting these onto Superfrost Plus slides. We have suddenly started losing lots of sections from these slides (again!!). The

[Histonet] Help! Losing sections from Superfrost Plus Slides

2009-12-09 Thread HistoLab
Angelina, I have seen this post a few times before and sometimes the problem was the drying technique or making sure your water bath is clean and free of any debris. I also remember hearing about someone pre-treating their slides with a Trilogy (EDTA) buffer in a pressure cooker. Good Luck!

[Histonet] Help! Losing sections from Superfrost Plus Slides

2009-12-09 Thread Rene J Buesa
Prepare a 1% aq. sol. of Elmer's Glue and coat the slides with it. Oven dry and use the slides as usual. René J. --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Angelina Fong f...@zoology.ubc.ca wrote: From: Angelina Fong f...@zoology.ubc.ca Subject: [Histonet] Help! Losing sections from Superfrost Plus Slides

RE: [Histonet] Help! Losing sections from Superfrost Plus Slides

2009-12-09 Thread CHRISTIE GOWAN
I would suggest you check the lot#. You may have received a bad lot and need to get them replaced by the vendor. Hi all, We have suddenly started losing tissue sections from our Superfrost Plus Slides. Our students have been cutting fixed, frozen, cryosections (20um) and