[Histonet] STF suppliers

[Akemi Allison-Tacha]

Hello & Happy New Year,
   
  Listed are Commerical Fixative Suppliers, Composition and Main Action:  Perhaps you can go on the web & look-up #  Let me know if this helps.
    
  1) Tissue-Tek (STF) from Miles (Streck Laboratories)   2-Bromo-2nitropropan-1, 3-diol (bronopol), ] 3%; diazolindinyl urea, ]5%; zinc sulfate, ]5%; formaldehyde,] 0.1%)  Main Action: Non-cross-linking, noncoagulative
   
  2) Histochoice from Amresco   Aldehyde addition compounds, buffers, salts, stabilizers  Main Action: Non-cross linking
   
  3) Krofix from Merck, Darmstadt  Alcohol polyethylene glycols Main Action: Protein coagulant
   
  4) No Tox from Earth Safe Industries  Aq. ethanol, bis carbonyl componds, bacteriocides, virocides, fungicides humectants Main Action: Protein cross-linking
   
  5) Omnifix II from An-Con Genetics  Ethanol 36%, ethylene glycol, acetic acid, sodium chloride zinc chloride  Main Action: Watere removal, nucleic acid precipitation, stabalization of protein conformation
   
  Happy New Year
   
  Akemi Allison-Tacha, BS, HT(ASCP)HTL
  President
  Phoenix Lab Consulting & Staffing
  E-Mail: akemiat3377 <@t> yahoo.com
  Cell: (925) 788-0900
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