[Histonet] Practice tissue?

[Elizabeth Chlipala]

A Slim Jim would work or any meat or lunch meat purchased at the grocery store.  You will need to start by fixing the samples appropriately and then process, embed and section.  If you work in a research center that does animals studies then I would see if you could not get some animal tissue even a mouse or rat would work to collect the teeth, fix properly and then decal and process, etc.   Fresh tissue is always better than other types of samples.  If you are close to a University that has a vivarium  or veterinary school give them a call to see if you can get any fresh tissue samples from them over the store bought samples.

Liz

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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 3:51 PM
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Subject: [Histonet] Practice tissue?

Hello histonet, I was a member a number of years ago, but had gotten out of doing much histology (I was never a pro) for awhile.... but I seem to be back at it. 
I was wondering if people might have some ideas on a good "practice tissue", one that I could embed, section, and stain (H&E) to both practice my sectioning, and check my staining protocol, etc. I really need to be sectioning some decalcified teeth, and have had some luck, but I would really like to do some more practice on an "easy to section tissue" (other than just a blank block of paraffin)  that I can also test my staining on.  I have accesses to a tissue processor. Is there anything I can just pick up at the grocery store? Thanks, David David A. Waugh, Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
NEOMED
4209 State Route 44
Rootstown, OH 44272


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