RE: [Histonet] Poor quality frozen sections, feline skin.

2011-10-06 Thread Mehlika Faire
, mostly with snap freeze or meoh/acetone fixed tissues without cryoprotectant. Hope this helps. -Mehlika > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:36:24 +1100 > From: julie.bil...@gmail.com > To: pbo...@histoprep.com > Subject: Re: [Histonet] Poor quality frozen sections, feline skin. &g

Re: [Histonet] Poor quality frozen sections, feline skin.

2011-10-06 Thread Julie Bilkey
Hi Peter, We use 20-25% sucrose on our fresh specimens for immunofluorescence (IF). We only deal with human skin samples so I will not comment on feline skin. I sit the specimen in three changes of sucrose for 10 minutes each. Before embedding in the cryostat, I gently blot it on a tissue. My unde