[Histonet] Hydrating Frozen Tissues embedded in OCT for Sectioning

2012-02-27 Thread Kasai, Miki (NIH/NCI) [E]
We are trouble-shooting cryosectioning mouse lung tissue. Often the lung section tears or breaks apart during sectioning. In the past, if the lung section is proving difficult to section, we take the OCT-embedded tissue and re-embed it back into OCT (basically put fresh OCT into the original

Re: [Histonet] Hydrating Frozen Tissues embedded in OCT for Sectioning

2012-02-27 Thread Kim Merriam
)QIHC Cambridge, MA From: Kasai, Miki (NIH/NCI) [E] kas...@mail.nih.gov To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: [Histonet] Hydrating Frozen Tissues embedded in OCT for Sectioning We

Re: [Histonet] Hydrating Frozen Tissues embedded in OCT for Sectioning

2012-02-27 Thread Kim Merriam
From: Colleen Forster cfors...@umn.edu To: Kim Merriam kmerriam2...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Histonet] Hydrating Frozen Tissues embedded in OCT for Sectioning Yep, the sample is too cold. Rubbing your finger across even with a glove