FW: [Histonet] APTS/TESPA coating, other slide coating

[Ian Montgomery]

Geoff,
	As someone who routinely uses poly-l-lysine, I'm interested in your
comment that silane is better for paraffin sections, why? I've also had a
quick browse at the techniques for coating and although almost identical,
the times in silane range from 10 seconds, Gibbs,L. Histonet Sept 06, 2001
to 5 minutes, Mutter 1988. Any thoughts on time?
Ian.



I think 'silane' slides are better for paraffin sections. The harsher 
the treatment, the better 'silane' is.

Geoff

Emily Sours wrote:
> On this note, has anyone noticed that egg albumin-coated slides are better
> than TESPA (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane)
> -coated slides for paraffin sectioning? We're using them for H&E and IHC.
I
> assume that egg-albumin would have more background in IHC, but I haven't
> tried it yet.
>
> Emily
>   


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