[Histonet] RE: Histonet Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10
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The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is in need of a part time pathologist assistant. The hours will be late afternoon, early evening. If interested, please apply online at www.mdanderson.org, requisition number 9523.
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Today's Topics:
1. Full Time Openings for Histotech and Grossing Tech
(Laurie Colbert)
2. RE: Vantage and Prisma (WILLIAM DESALVO)
3. p40 (Taylor, Jean)
4. GI biopsy H&E staining (Annie T. Walton)
5. Re: GI biopsy H&E staining (Jennifer MacDonald)
6. Extra Ventana Reagent (Delray Beach Pathology Kari Simeone)
7. Movat Pentachrome - Can?t Remove Woodstain Scarlet-Acid
Fuchsin from Collagen (Krista Sider)
8. RE: Movat Pentachrome - Can't Remove Woodstain Scarlet-Acid
Fuchsin from Collagen (Elizabeth Chlipala)
9. ground section staining (Yan Liang)
10. Re: p40 (Akemi Allison)
11. Recording formalin "out times" (Wanda Shotsberger Gray)
12. AW: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can't Remove Woodstain
Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin from Collagen (Gudrun Lang)
13. AW: [Histonet] Recording formalin "out times" (Gudrun Lang)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:10:59 +0000
From: Laurie Colbert <lcolbert <@t> pathmdlabs.com>
Subject: [Histonet] Full Time Openings for Histotech and Grossing Tech
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PATH MD has two full time openings for a histotech and a grossing tech. Both positions require at least two years of experience and the ability to troubleshoot a variety of issues. The histotechnician shift is from 11:00pm to 7:30 am and entails embedding, cutting, and manual special stains. The grossing tech shift is 10:30 am to 7:00 pm, Monday-Friday.
PATH MD is a new pathology reference lab located in West Hollywood, CA. We are rapidly expanding and are looking to add motivated and experienced personnel to our team. Salary is competitive and full medical, dental, and vision benefits are offered. If interested, please forward your resume to: lcolbert <@t> pathmdlabs.com<mailto:lcolbert <@t> pathmdlabs.com>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:18:50 -0700
From: WILLIAM DESALVO <wdesalvo.cac <@t> outlook.com>
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Vantage and Prisma
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I use Vantage and Sakura Prisma. The Sakura Prisma is not interfaced into Vantage. You place a bar-coded label on your H&E slides at microtomy. We scan the slides after staining, case assembly.
William DeSalvo, BS HTL(ASCP)
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> Subject: [Histonet] Vantage and Prisma
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> Happy Friday
> Anyone out there using Ventana's Vantage with Sakura's Tissue-Tek Prisma
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:53:45 -0500
From: "Taylor, Jean" <jtaylor <@t> meriter.com>
Subject: [Histonet] p40
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking into ordering the p40 antibody for one of our pathologists. He wants to use it to help distinguish between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell ca in lung. I'm wondering what labs are using, the monoclonal or polyclonal antibody, and where you purchase it from. I haven't found that a lot of companies that carry it. Any info would be helpful.
Thanks,
Jean Taylor, HT(ASCP)QIHC
IHC Tech
Meriter Health Services
Madison, WI
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:02:30 -0700
From: "Annie T. Walton" <AWalton <@t> oima.org>
Subject: [Histonet] GI biopsy H&E staining
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Hello all,
Our Medical Director would like the goblet cells on our GI biopsies to stain a darker blue. I hand stain using the following protocol:
* Xylene, 3 changes 3 minutes each
* 100% Alcohol, 2 changes 1 minute each
* 95% Alcohol 1 minute
* Tap water rinse until water runs off evenly
* Harris Hematoxylin 5 minutes
* Water wash rinse until water runs clear
* Clarifier 2 5 seconds
* Running water 30 seconds
* Bluing Solution 1 minute
* Tap water rinse well
* 95% Alcohol 30 seconds
* Eosin Y 1 minute
* 100% Alcohol, 2 changes 30 seconds
* 100% Alcohol, 2 changes 1 minute each
* Xylene, 3 changes 1 minute each
I have recently increased the hematoxylin time from 4 to 5 minutes and decreased the time in clarifier from 25 to 5 seconds so the hematoxylin doesn't get washed out as much, but it is not good enough. I also switched from 70% alcohol to 95% before eosin and increased the time in eosin from 45 seconds to 1 minute to provide a greater contrast in hopes that that would work, but the goblet cells are still not staining dark enough. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated!
Thanks!
Annie Walton, HTL (ASCP)
Histology Technician
Overlake Internal Medicine Associates Histology Lab
425-974-9643
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:33:19 -0700
From: Jennifer MacDonald <JMacDonald <@t> mtsac.edu>
Subject: Re: [Histonet] GI biopsy H&E staining
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Use a Gill hematoxylin.
Sent from my iPad
On May 10, 2013, at 11:05 AM, "Annie T. Walton" <AWalton <@t> oima.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Our Medical Director would like the goblet cells on our GI biopsies to
stain a darker blue. I hand stain using the following protocol:
>
>
> * Xylene, 3 changes
3 minutes each
> * 100% Alcohol, 2 changes
1 minute each
> * 95% Alcohol
1 minute
> * Tap water
rinse until water runs off evenly
> * Harris Hematoxylin
5 minutes
> * Water wash
rinse until water runs clear
> * Clarifier 2
5 seconds
> * Running water
30 seconds
> * Bluing Solution
1 minute
> * Tap water
rinse well
> * 95% Alcohol
30 seconds
> * Eosin Y
1 minute
> * 100% Alcohol, 2 changes
30 seconds
> * 100% Alcohol, 2 changes
1 minute each
> * Xylene, 3 changes
1 minute each
>
> I have recently increased the hematoxylin time from 4 to 5 minutes and
decreased the time in clarifier from 25 to 5 seconds so the hematoxylin
doesn't get washed out as much, but it is not good enough. I also switched
from 70% alcohol to 95% before eosin and increased the time in eosin from
45 seconds to 1 minute to provide a greater contrast in hopes that that
would work, but the goblet cells are still not staining dark enough. Any
suggestions would greatly be appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Annie Walton, HTL (ASCP)
> Histology Technician
> Overlake Internal Medicine Associates Histology Lab
> 425-974-9643
> awalton <@t> oima.org
>
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:46:36 -0400
From: "Delray Beach Pathology Kari Simeone" <KSimeone <@t> leavittmgt.com>
Subject: [Histonet] Extra Ventana Reagent
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Hi everyone. I use the Ventana NexES and when opening a new kit for PAS, I end up tossing the extra (2) Schiff's 2 (22ml each) bottles. Is there anyone out there that can use this stuff? I'd love to help someone instead of just wasting it. I inquired with Ventana and they basically told me that's just how they sell it. Yuck, wasteful. It's already registered so of no use on any other instrument but who knows??
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:13:23 -0400
From: Krista Sider <krista.sider <@t> utoronto.ca>
Subject: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can?t Remove Woodstain
Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin from Collagen
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Hello All,
I have successfully stained porcine and mouse paraffin embedded heart
tissues with Movat?s Pentachrome (MP), using EMS? MP solutions and protocol
(http://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/technical/datasheet/26385.aspx), with
some optimization on times.
However, now I am working with archival human tissue that has been fixed
for much longer and is much older than my other samples (Human Aorta &
Aortic Valve, formalin fixed 2-6 months or 2-4 years, embedded in paraffin
and stored at RT for ~6 years). I cannot seem to get the Woodstain
Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin (WSAF) to pull out of the collagen with the 5%
Phosphotungstic Acid (PA) or 1% Phosphomolybdic acid (PM) Acid. I have
tried increasing the Bouin?s initial fixation (max 2 hrs 50*C), diluting
the standard WSAF solution by 50% (1 dip) and taking the PA or PM up to 1
hr, yet there is always a lot of red still left in the collagen, in some
regions as strong as the muscle (which I am sure are not muscle or dense
cells). I see virtually no change with increased PA or PM time. As I have
aorta in my samples I can?t just leave out the muscle stain.
I would be very grateful for your insights into anything I could try to get
clean collagen and stained muscle in the MP stain. Why might my method not
be working? Is there something I can substitute for the WSAF that might be
appropriate?
Thank you very much for you help,
Krista
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:26:53 -0600
From: Elizabeth Chlipala <liz <@t> premierlab.com>
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can't Remove Woodstain
Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin from Collagen
To: Krista Sider <krista.sider <@t> utoronto.ca>,
"histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu"
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Krista
Not sure if this would help but we mordant in Bouins for 1 hour at 60C, we let the bouins come up to temp (60C) before we put the slides in. We have not had good success with temps lower than 60C and if we do not warm up the bouins. We also find that fresh reagents are key in successful results, we make up our reagents, we don't use a kit. If you don't need the alcian blue portion of the stain present, my suggestion would be to try a modified trichome, - mordant in bouins and in place of the iron hematoxylin use verhoff elastic stain, differenciate and then counterstain with a regular trichrome. This will turn out really nice and it will demonstrates elastic fibers, collagen and muscle nicely. We prefer doing this over the Movats. I have a protocol if you need one.
Liz
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To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can't Remove Woodstain Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin from Collagen
Hello All,
I have successfully stained porcine and mouse paraffin embedded heart tissues with Movat's Pentachrome (MP), using EMS' MP solutions and protocol (http://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/technical/datasheet/26385.aspx), with some optimization on times.
However, now I am working with archival human tissue that has been fixed for much longer and is much older than my other samples (Human Aorta & Aortic Valve, formalin fixed 2-6 months or 2-4 years, embedded in paraffin and stored at RT for ~6 years). I cannot seem to get the Woodstain Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin (WSAF) to pull out of the collagen with the 5% Phosphotungstic Acid (PA) or 1% Phosphomolybdic acid (PM) Acid. I have tried increasing the Bouin's initial fixation (max 2 hrs 50*C), diluting the standard WSAF solution by 50% (1 dip) and taking the PA or PM up to 1 hr, yet there is always a lot of red still left in the collagen, in some regions as strong as the muscle (which I am sure are not muscle or dense cells). I see virtually no change with increased PA or PM time. As I have aorta in my samples I can't just leave out the muscle stain.
I would be very grateful for your insights into anything I could try to get clean collagen and stained muscle in the MP stain. Why might my method not be working? Is there something I can substitute for the WSAF that might be appropriate?
Thank you very much for you help,
Krista
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:43:26 -0500
From: Yan Liang <yliang <@t> numirabio.com>
Subject: [Histonet] ground section staining
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Hi Histonet,
We are staining plastic bone ground section. However we have trouble on plastic ground section with H&E, Sandersons with acid fuchsin counterstaining and Goldner's Trichrome staining . It would be great appreciated if you can help or share protocol with us.
Thanks you
Yan
..............................................
Yan Liang Ph.D.
Senior Director, Histopathology
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:35:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Akemi Allison <akemiat3377 <@t> yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Histonet] p40
To: "Taylor, Jean" <jtaylor <@t> meriter.com>, "'ihcrg <@t> googlegroups.com'"
<ihcrg <@t> googlegroups.com>, "'histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu'"
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Biocare Medical. David Tacha just gave a a workshop on this at the CSH meeting last weekend.
?
Akemi Allison BS, HT(ASCP)HTL
Director
Phoenix Lab Consulting
E-Mail: akemiat3377 <@t> yahoo.com
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Subject: [Histonet] p40
Hi everyone,
I'm looking into ordering the p40 antibody for one of our pathologists. He wants to use it to help distinguish between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell ca in lung. I'm wondering what labs are using, the monoclonal or polyclonal antibody, and where you purchase it from. I haven't found that a lot of companies that carry it. Any info would be helpful.
Thanks,
Jean Taylor, HT(ASCP)QIHC
IHC Tech
Meriter Health Services
Madison, WI
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:15:01 -0400
From: Wanda Shotsberger Gray <wgray19 <@t> sc.rr.com>
Subject: [Histonet] Recording formalin "out times"
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Anyone out there using CoPath "paper free"? We are trying to use as little paper as possible, and have yet to come up with a good way/place to record the times that breast tissue comes out of formalin. If we use the "comment" line, the poor tech who scans the cassettes into CoPath must enter the time on every case, which can be way too many cases to make this feasible. We have also tried putting the out time as the name of the run, but the pathologists, who want this info in the report, can't easily see this information, and end up calling us for it.
Any help would be appreciated, and vendors: Are you listening? Make this part of your LIS product, please.
Thank you all,
Wanda Shotsberger Gray
HT/HTL (ASCP)
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:04:21 +0200
From: "Gudrun Lang" <gu.lang <@t> gmx.at>
Subject: AW: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can't Remove Woodstain
Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin from Collagen
To: "'Krista Sider'" <krista.sider <@t> utoronto.ca>
Cc: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
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Try to stain first in PTA/PMA solution to impregnate the collagen fibers -
perhaps testing with different times. Then follow up with red stain and the
usual procedure.
We use a stain called SFOG, that first impregnates 2 min with PMA and
afterwards with the mixture of Chromotrop, Acidfuchsin and Anilinblue for 10
min. The longer we do the Polyacid-step the more intensive are the fibres
and less intensive is the cytoplasma.
I think, if after this trial the collagen is still red, that there are
binding-sites in the collagen, that can't be influenced. Maybe acidfuchsin
is here the main partner and a pure solution of Scarlet Red may help.
Gudrun Lang
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Im Auftrag von Krista
Sider
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Mai 2013 23:13
An: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Betreff: [Histonet] Movat Pentachrome - Can?t Remove Woodstain Scarlet-Acid
Fuchsin from Collagen
Hello All,
I have successfully stained porcine and mouse paraffin embedded heart
tissues with Movat?s Pentachrome (MP), using EMS? MP solutions and protocol
(http://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/technical/datasheet/26385.aspx), with
some optimization on times.
However, now I am working with archival human tissue that has been fixed for
much longer and is much older than my other samples (Human Aorta & Aortic
Valve, formalin fixed 2-6 months or 2-4 years, embedded in paraffin and
stored at RT for ~6 years). I cannot seem to get the Woodstain Scarlet-Acid
Fuchsin (WSAF) to pull out of the collagen with the 5% Phosphotungstic Acid
(PA) or 1% Phosphomolybdic acid (PM) Acid. I have tried increasing the
Bouin?s initial fixation (max 2 hrs 50*C), diluting the standard WSAF
solution by 50% (1 dip) and taking the PA or PM up to 1 hr, yet there is
always a lot of red still left in the collagen, in some regions as strong as
the muscle (which I am sure are not muscle or dense cells). I see virtually
no change with increased PA or PM time. As I have aorta in my samples I
can?t just leave out the muscle stain.
I would be very grateful for your insights into anything I could try to get
clean collagen and stained muscle in the MP stain. Why might my method not
be working? Is there something I can substitute for the WSAF that might be
appropriate?
Thank you very much for you help,
Krista
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Message: 13
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:09:21 +0200
From: "Gudrun Lang" <gu.lang <@t> gmx.at>
Subject: AW: [Histonet] Recording formalin "out times"
To: "'Wanda Shotsberger Gray'" <wgray19 <@t> sc.rr.com>
Cc: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
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I don't know this system, but is there no possibility to record this time directly in the grossing description?
Gudrun Lang
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Betreff: [Histonet] Recording formalin "out times"
Anyone out there using CoPath "paper free"? We are trying to use as little paper as possible, and have yet to come up with a good way/place to record the times that breast tissue comes out of formalin. If we use the "comment" line, the poor tech who scans the cassettes into CoPath must enter the time on every case, which can be way too many cases to make this feasible. We have also tried putting the out time as the name of the run, but the pathologists, who want this info in the report, can't easily see this information, and end up calling us for it.
Any help would be appreciated, and vendors: Are you listening? Make this part of your LIS product, please.
Thank you all,
Wanda Shotsberger Gray
HT/HTL (ASCP)
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