[Histonet] Toluidine blue staining of CFU-F

2011-01-07 Thread Adam .
Hi all, I'm looking for a protocol to counterstain mouse CFU-F grown in tissue culture**. The protocols I've found just say they counterstained with this dye, don't say what it's dissolved in, sometimes list the percentage of it, and never list the time they stained for. The only full protocol I f

Re: [Histonet] Toluidine blue staining

2009-06-05 Thread Geoff McAuliffe
To get consistent staining you must standardize your procedure. I make 1% aqueous Tol. Blue and 2% aqueous borax (sodium tetraborate) in separate containers. Each day I mix equal parts of each solution so I always use fresh stain. My final conc. of stain is 0.5%, doubling to 1% makes no differe

[Histonet] Toluidine blue staining

2009-06-05 Thread Edwards, Chris
Hello. Our lab has had highly variable results using toluidine blue to stain 1.5 micron thick cross sections of plastic embedded nerve tissue from both mouse and human nerve biopsy. It seems like the stain is darker in the biopsy tissue than the mouse but both sometimes stain equally poorly. We ha