[Histonet] Can you believe it

[louise renton]

Interestingly,
just yesterday I had a Tissue tek biopsy bag disintigrate in the Sakura
electrolytic decalcifier, but only the one nearest the (?) -ve terminal. I
thought those things were some sort of nylon and indestructible. Shows, you
live and learn!





On 11/25/08, stephanie.d.rivera <@t> gsk.com <stephanie.d.rivera <@t> gsk.com> wrote:
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> I can believe it!
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> I have heard of the tissue disentergrating in decal(CAL-RITE) with heat.
> The stirrer was on and someone hit the heat knob and this was on a Friday.
> Well, on Monday there was no tissue, the cassette was chewed but it was
> there. Now we have tape across the heat knobs on all stirrer plates.
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> Stephanie D. Rivera
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> phone: 610-270-7340
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> Has anyone ever heard of cassettes and tissue totally disintegrating in
> formic acid decal solution with a high heat on the solution for about 3
> hours?????  We had 3 cassettes with tissue for decal placed in our
> container on the platform for adding agitation.  Someone had moved the
> knob to heat and this wasn't noticed until about 2-3 hours later, when
> it was boiling!  We cannot locate the cassettes (I think someone
> misplaced them) and others think they totally disintegrated with the
> decal and heat...what does everyone think?????  In all of my years of
> histology, never have I heard of anything so weird ......
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> Dorothy Webb
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-- 
Louise Renton
Bone Research Unit
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
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