We use acetone to dissolve MMA from implants. Don't know what that would do
to tissue.
Bob
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Bernice Frederick <
b-freder...@northwestern.edu> wrote:
> We have a piece of bone in MMA. The researcher wants us to get It out and
> do
> paraffin. Is it possible? What w
Years ago when I had to remove plexiglass rods from eyes, I used
chloroform. It takes a few days, but methyl methacrylate dissolves in
chloroform quite well. In fact, plexiglass containers for medical museum
specimens are cemented together with MMA dissolved in chloroform.
Bryan Llewellyn
Be
Jack
PS If this project is for Mahesh, tell him I said hello! :)
> From: b-freder...@northwestern.edu
> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:15:29 -0500
> Subject: [Histonet] removing MMA
>
> We have a piece of bone in MMA. The researc
We have a piece of bone in MMA. The researcher wants us to get It out and do
paraffin. Is it possible? What will "melt" the MMA?
We also have some 50um slides cut ,that they want to see blood vessels and
collagen. Am I going to be able to do an EVG and trichrome or will the
plastic inhibit this pr
