[Histonet] Re: Help! Liver mistakenly processed in paraffin (had to be in OCT instead)!

[z o n k e d]

Thank you all for your helpful responses! I will go ahead and carry on with
paraffin sectioning and stain with H&E as planned. As for the Oil Red O,
I'll try that too and see what happens.
(Still amazed at how amazing Histonet is and how helpful you all are! Thank
you very much for all your responses!)

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Jennifer MacDonald <JMacDonald <@t> mtsac.edu>wrote:

> if there was fat replacement, such as cirrhosis, you will see it in the
> morphology.
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> From:        z o n k e d <zonked <@t> gmail.com>
> To:        Jennifer MacDonald <JMacDonald <@t> mtsac.edu>
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> histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>, "
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> Date:        11/13/2012 09:43 AM
> Subject:        Re: Help! Liver mistakenly processed in paraffin (had to
> be in OCT instead)!
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> We just wanted to see general lipids, nothing in particular. This mouse
> died unexpectedly and may have been part of a group that was put on a high
> fat or high bile acid diet and we just wanted to see what happened.
>
> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Jennifer MacDonald wrote:
> It depends on what you are using the oil red o for.  Lipofuscin and ceroid
> can be demonstrated with an oil red o stain after processing.
> Jennifer MacDonald
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> Date:        11/13/2012 08:53 AM
> Subject:        [Histonet] Help! Liver mistakenly processed in paraffin
> (had to be        in OCT instead)!
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> Hello Histonetters,
>
> First time writer, long time reader. I'm a newbie tech in academia and I
> was given a simple task which I think I pretty much screwed up.
>
> I should have embedded half of a mouse liver in paraffin for microtome
> sectioning while the other half should have been embedded in OCT for
> cryosectioning (for oil red o). I made the mistake last night of placing
> both liver halves into the tissue processor. The liver I intended for OCT
> embedding is now hard as wax. Is there any way to deparaffinize processed
> organs and may I embed them in OCT for proper cryosectioning? I imagine
> that the liver would get dehydrated, I would get crappy sections, and Oil
> Red O won't work.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Zoe W.
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