RE: SPAM-LOW: [Histonet] Re: B5 alternate

2009-11-14 Thread Patsy Ruegg
ssage- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Richmond Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 2:04 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Histonet] Re: B5 alternate I loved B5 fixative, and before that Zen

[Histonet] Re: B5 alternate

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Richmond
I loved B5 fixative, and before that Zenker's, but they're gone and they're not coming back. In my personal expereience in a number of pathology services, the various muchly-touted B5 substitutes offer very little morphologic advantage over neutral buffered formalin. Unless it's fixed pretty earl