[Histonet] Porcessing FFPE tissue without alcohol??

[Elizabeth Chlipala]

We use osmium post fixation to look at fat all of the time in mouse liver, nerve and muscle samples.  It works well, sample size needs to be thin, samples are friable and can crack easily.  We use a specific procedure for this it includes potassium dichromate I think, I'm at home but on Monday I can send the reference.  One more thing don't trim into the block too much.

Liz

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From: Joanna via Histonet [histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 9:20 AM
To: Rene J Buesa
Cc: Hobbs, Carl; histonet
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Porcessing FFPE tissue without alcohol??

How about Sudan Black stain?

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 4:32 AM, Rene J Buesa via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
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> The only problem I see is that the fat will be preserved, as you wrote, as a black osmium oxidate but you will not be able to use any "standard" fat stain; otherwise it will work.René
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>    On Friday, March 25, 2016 2:41 PM, "Hobbs, Carl via Histonet" <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
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> Fix the tissue in Formalin, wash well in dw, then place very small pieces into Osmium tetroxide solution ( std soln for TEM post-fixation)
> Processing to Pwax as usual.
> Basically, you will see lipids as black ( oxidised osmium)
> That's the only way to demonstrate solvent- soluble lipids, using Pwax processing.
> Sure, there are caveats but, in the main...it will be Ok, imho.
> I invite comments as I may be doing exactly this very soon, to count myelinated nerve fibres in a sciatic nerve.
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