[Histonet] RE: HistoGel

[Milne, Katy]

We use histogel a lot in our lab.  It's a research lab and we use it for a few purposes - pelleting cultured cells then creating multi-culture TMAs for testing antibodies and also pelleting cells from ascites and pleural effusions.  Has also been used to process really small samples that could have been lost in the processor through the cassettes.

Works quite well.  The researchers just put the samples in histogel and give it to me in formalin then I process it as I would regular tissue.  Cuts very well too.

Katy


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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:26:46 -0400
From: "Dessoye, Michael J" <mjdessoye <@t> wvhcs.org>
Subject: [Histonet] HistoGel
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Hello,
 
Does anyone out there have any experience with HistoGel?  It's Richard Allan/Thermo Fisher.  They claim that you can "embed" scant tissues in the gel and then process, embed, and cut as usual.  Just wondering how it works in the real world....
 
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