Hello Everyone
I have worked in histology for 41 years and the only reason we ever put
sections shiny side up is when we want to look at back to back sections:
We would take the first section and put it shiny side up in the bath and
the next section immediately after would be placed shiny side
.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Hoy
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:36 PM
To: Histonet
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin section
All of the cells would be face down when you looked at them!
(It's already been a long week!)
Eric Hoy
wrote:
From: Lucie Guernsey lguern...@ucsd.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin section
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:56 PM
As all of us who cut paraffin know, the underside of each section as it
comes off the blade is shiny. I've always
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[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Lucie Guernsey
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:56 PM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin section
As all of us
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[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Hoy
Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Lucie Guernsey
Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:56 AM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin section
As all of us who cut paraffin know
As all of us who cut paraffin know, the underside of each section as it
comes off the blade is shiny. I've always accepted it as a fact that the
shiny side always goes down on the water bath, but I've begun to wonder
why. Is there a specific reason why we're all taught to put the shiny side
down?
All of the cells would be face down when you looked at them!
(It's already been a long week!)
Eric Hoy
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Eric S. Hoy, Ph.D., SI(ASCP)
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
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-Original Message-
From: Eric Hoy eric@utsouthwestern.edu
To: Histonet histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 7:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shiny side of a paraffin section
All of the cells would be face down when you looked at them!
(It's already been a long week!)
Eric
