[Histonet] staining of plastic sections

[Walters, Katherine S]

Perhaps you could try the Paragon stain.  It looks more like an H&E.

Kathy Walters

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Subject: [Histonet] staining of plastic sections 

Hi Histonetters,

If anyone has a good protocol for staining plastic sections, could they
share it?  We have samples embedded in an epoxy resin for TEM but they
love the semi-thick sections on the glass slide and asked if we could do
something other than a toluidine blue O, the standard stain for plastic.
We have tried H&E and PAS with no success.  If there some way to treat
the sections in order to get them to stain?  Is there another stain we
could try?

Thank you!

Lesley


Lesley S. Bechtold
Senior Manager, Histopathology Sciences
The Jackson Laboratory
600 Main St.
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207-288-6322 (phone)
207-288-6325 (fax)

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