[Histonet] plastic to paraffin

[Tamara Howard]

Kenneth -


You can do this, but it won't be pretty - if you trim as much of the plastic away as you can, you can etch the resin away with sodium methoxide (or ethoxide):


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/357729

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A method for the removal of epoxy resins from tissue in preparation for scanning electron microscopy. - PubMed - NCBI <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/357729>
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
J Microsc. 1978 May;113(1):95-9.


Good luck!


Tamara


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Tamara Howard
Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM