RE: [Histonet] Artifact in Muscle bx's frozen for extended time

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Henwood
Sharon, Your answer is probably in the following article in the Journal of Histotechnology (Volume 32, number 2, June 2009): "Nonfrozen Transport Medium Preserves and Restores Skeletal Muscle Enzymatic Activity and Morphology" Authors: Iren Horkayne-Szakaly, Glenn D. Sandberg, Joren Keylock, El

RE: [Histonet] Artifact in Muscle bx's frozen for extended time

2009-07-29 Thread Ingles Claire
We do everything you do, except we surround the tissue with oct in the tube before freezing. Otherwise, it's freezer burn city. (in TX I think) :) We also just write the info on the side of the bottle with a thin sharpie instead of the cork thing. We usually store several tubes from the same ca