It depends on the tissue-component to be shown. If you just want to see tissue-architecture or eg. in liver mallory-bodies and glycogen doesn't play a role, one slide would be sufficient. Gudrun
On 3/15/2012 1:47 AM, Jennifer MacDonald wrote: > Hi All, > At a local lab when a pathologist orders a PAS diastase the > histotechnicians do just one slide with diastase. They do not do an > undigested slide. How would the pathologist know if the digested slide > had a glycogen to begin with? Am I over thinking this? > Thanks, > Jennifer > Teri Johnson, HT(ASCP)QIHC GNF Histology Lab Manager Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation 858-332-4752 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet