[Histonet] Freezing artefact

[Finlay Finlay]

Good Afternoon all,

I have a couple of cases where my post mortem samples have been accidentally frozen in Neutral Buffered Formalin. Naturally this has led to pretty striking artefact in the tissue. I was wondering if anyone who perhaps has more experience of dealing with frozen tissue has any tips on minimising this artefact? I still have some fixed tissue but am unable to resample from the unfixed tissue. Thanks in advance.

Finlay Finlay

Senior Histology Technician
Forensic Medicine and Science
School of Medicine
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University of Glasgow
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