[Histonet] Where to purchase India Ink

[Marshall Terry Dr, Consultant Histopathologist]

Just to emphasise the point, there are things that come in bottles labelled Indian ink, that are not. I have a big expensive bottle to prove it!


Dr Terry L Marshall, B.A.(Law), M.B.,Ch.B.,F.R.C.Path
 Consultant Pathologist
 Rotherham General Hospital
 South Yorkshire
 England
        terry.marshall <@t> rothgen.nhs.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Kiernan [mailto:jkiernan <@t> uwo.ca]
Sent: 09 March 2006 16:07
To: Jakub Otáhal; Histonet
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Where to purchase India Ink


>From an art shop, but make sure it really is
Indian ink, not just any black ink.  (Indian ink
is colloidal carbon in water with some sort of
binding polymer like dextrin or a protein.)

I've used a make called Pelikan for marking,
things, injecting blood vessels (mixed with
gelatin) and by IV injection to label phagocytic
cells in rats (it circulates for a minute or two
and is then nearly all lodged in the liver and
spleen). There will be other makes too. 

A Google search for "pelikan indian ink" (in
quotes) brings up 102 hits, including vendors and
biological applications. Omit the quotes and there
are 33000 hits. Change indian to india and there
are 67000 hits. The stuff shouldn't be too hard to
find! 
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John A. Kiernan
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
The University of Western Ontario
London,   Canada   N6A 5C1
   kiernan[AT]uwo.ca
   http://publish.uwo.ca/~jkiernan/
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Jakub Otáhal wrote:
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> Hi histoneters,
> 
> Does anybody know where to purchase India Ink for easy vizualization of
> cerebral vascularization?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion
> 
> 
> 
> jakub
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> 
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