RE: [Histonet] Minnows?

2009-07-29 Thread Laurie Reilly
Dear Sally and Histonet, Fish can be fun. If they are young the bones are soft enough to cut without decal. Or if you can fix them in an acidic fixative like Bouin's the bones will be soft enough to not give trouble. We do median sagittal sections and process and embed both sides. They look

Re: [Histonet] Minnows?

2009-07-28 Thread Kathleen Roberts
I get everything from mice to birds to fish (zebrafish, but close enough for our purposes), with the occasional larger animal thrown in (deer, horse). Since I'm in academic research, things are different for me-I receive instructions on what to do with every tissue sample submitted, so if I