[Histonet] Resin embedded tissue

2010-07-15 Thread Tilston, Valerie
Hi, Does anyone have experience of cutting resin embedded bone and if so what type of slides do people use? We are having problems with sections falling off or the bone not remaining flat on the slide! Many thanks in advance, Val ___ Histonet

Re: [Histonet] Resin embedded tissue

2010-07-15 Thread Jack Ratliff
Valerie, I use just regular glass slides, coat them with Haupt's adhesive, roll the sections flat and then press and dry the sections to the coated slide using a slide press and oven at 50C. In 13 years of hard tissue resin histology, I have never (knocking twice on wood) lost a section or had