H&E on plastic, which plastic? Re: [Histonet] eosinhematoxyli n plastic stain

[Gayle Callis]

Are your sections thin, i.e. 5 um versus thick, 50 um?  as Myriam 
indicated.. Do you remove the plastic BEFORE staining?  Please provide some 
details

Thanks

At 11:43 PM 12/6/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been doing H&E on bones embedded in methylmetacrylate, and it worked
>fine! I used hematoxylin after GILL and alcoholic Eosin.
>Tina

Gayle Callis
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