RE: [Histonet] Question regarding staining of ligament tissue using H&E. The nuclei in our ligament tissue is not staining consistently.

2012-01-24 Thread Kara Lee
responded so far :) > From: tony.henw...@health.nsw.gov.au > To: karabo...@hotmail.com; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: RE: [Histonet] Question regarding staining of ligament tissue using > H&E. The nuclei in our ligament tissue is not staining consistently. > Date:

RE: [Histonet] Question regarding staining of ligament tissue using H&E. The nuclei in our ligament tissue is not staining consistently.

2012-01-23 Thread Tony Henwood (SCHN)
Have a look at the dewaxing part of the protocol. Is the xylene removing all the wax? If wax is incompletely removed from the sections then nuclei will be poorly stained whereas, interestingly the eosin counterstain will seem to be unaffected (though with a diligent look you will see poorer eos