[Histonet] marking small samples

Melissa Burns mburns <@t> atlanticurologyclinics.com
Wed Jan 14 16:56:51 CST 2015


I've been told Eosin affects a lot of molecular testing. We used to use it in our process but discontinued to not interfere with future testing.  

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> On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:31 PM, "Morken, Timothy" <Timothy.Morken <@t> ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> We use eosin the processor alcohol. Also we use blue-tinted paraffin which helps with contrast on small bx
> 
> Tim Morken
> Supervisor, Histology, Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Special Studies
> UC San Francisco Medical Center
> San Francisco, CA
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> Dear Histonetters,
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> Does anyone know of a good method to mark (stain) small samples (tissue or cells) prior to paraffin embedding to aid in finding back more easily the sample in the paraffin block ?
> Preferably something that would not interfere with subsequent antibody staining.
> 
> Yves
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