Re: [Histonet] TEM using "difficult" tissue

2011-09-13 Thread Jan Shivers
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Re: [Histonet] TEM using "difficult" tissue

2011-09-13 Thread Geoff McAuliffe
I suspect it will be somewhere between rather ugly to totally worthless, more likely the latter. The only was to know is to find out for yourself. Thaw, rinse multiple times in buffer, osmicate in buffer, rinse, dehydrate, clear and embed in your favorite epoxy. Good luck. Geoff On 9/13/2011

[Histonet] TEM using "difficult" tissue

2011-09-13 Thread Daphne Gill
Hi I'd like to try some TEM work on rat brain hippocampus. However, the tissue is less than ideal. Does anyone have any information/insight on using old (harvested ~2 years ago) tissue that has been subjected to 20 minutes in sodium sulfide (0.4%), fixed using 30% sucrose in 10% BNF for 48 hours, a