[Histonet] Words, phrases and names in histotechnology. A free glossary.

[Colleen Forster]

THis looks likje a great resource...I will take time to look it over.

Thank you for all your valuable mentorship over the years....

Respectfully,

Colleen Forster
U of MN

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:35 PM Bob Richmond via Histonet <
histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:

> John Kiernan, certainly glad to see you back on HistoNet! - At 80 I've
> finally retired.
>
> This Biological Stain Commission glossary is a really useful resource I
> wish we'd had long ago. A lot of information in it difficult to get
> elsewhere. I'll link it on Facebook and on Sermo.
>
> Two suggestions: BSC should post it in PDF form, since a lot of people will
> probably want to print it out. And somebody should go through it and put
> the umlauts and accent marks on all those European names!
>
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Maryville TN
> *********************************************
>
> > Hello histonetters. I'm a HistoNet old-timer, back again after a few
> years
> > away. It's good to see that a few names are still around from the 1990s.
> >
> > Here is something new that may interest all of us. I send it as a news
> > item; a change from the usual initial question that initiates a Histonet
> > topic.
> >
> > A freely accessible online glossary of words, phrases and eponyms used in
> > histotechnology, histochemistry and immunostaining was published by the
> > Biological Stain Commission (BSC) at the end of December 2018.  It
> includes
> > about 600 entries; it is to be revised and expanded from time to time. (A
> > minor revision was uploaded on 19th January 2019.)
> >
> > Notable features are extensive crosslinks between the entries, and
> > explanations of terminology related to chemical and physical mechanisms
> > involved in the methods. There are also definitions and explanations
> > relating to all the stains (dyes) certified by the BSC.
> >
> > The BSC glossary is readable on screens of all sizes (including mobile
> > phones), and navigation among links is extremely rapid.
> >
> > Check it out directly at
> > https://biologicalstaincommission.org/bscglossary.html. Alternatively,
> > see it in the broader context of the BSC:  http://biostain.com.
> >
>
>
> > John Kiernan
> >
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Colleen Forster HT(ASCP)QIHC
BLS Histology and IHC Laboratory
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