[Histonet] Fading of Hematoxylin

[Monson, Frederick]

Fading of Hematoxylin is almost always caused by a mountant whose pH has
become acidic.  Remember how you differentiate the progressive
hematoxylin dyes.

You must check the pH of your mountant.  A method by which one may
'keep' the mountant at neutral pH is to load the storage container with
a reasonable amount of marble chips.  This is an 'old' method, and I
have never had to use it since I prepare my own mountant from dewaxed
Gum Damar.  Of course, I can do that, because I have no volume, and no
bean counters in my 1-man organization.

BTW, it is likely that if the mountant you are using is from a new or
recently opened bottle of mountant, the entire bottle was contaminated
to begin with. 

Cheers,

Fred Monson

Frederick C. Monson, PhD
Center for Advanced Scientific Imaging
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sulekha Ravi [mailto:sulekhababy <@t> yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:39 AM
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Fading of Hematoxylin


Hi
Please help me in overcoming this problem. Hematoxylin in my H&E stained
slides are fading in 1 month. I am using 'Gurr' make Hematoxylin powder
to make Harrys' Hematoxylin. Fresh stain is prepared every 3 months.
Kindly advise what to do. Sulekha

		
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