[Histonet] RE: peach stone (pit) sectioning?

[Preiszner, Johanna]

Thanks everybody for the ideas and the expression of sympathy!

Our conclusion is that it's not possible to soften up a hard fruit pit for paraffin sectioning in a standard Histology lab. We never tried celloidin embedding, so that's still a possiblility.

The best approach might be a bone or mineral grinder that can produce microscopic sections of hard material.

Thanks again,

Hanna Preiszner
ETSU/QCOM
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Subject: [Histonet] peach stone (pit) sectioning?

Hi Netters,

does anybody know how I could soften up a hard fruit pit for sectioning?

Thanks,
Hanna Preiszner
ETSU/QCOM

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