[Histonet] Cryostat anti-roll plate

[Bob Richmond]

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> My experience with anti-roll plates is mostly with the old International
> cryostats of days gone by. Pathologists usually disdained anti-roll plates
> and used an artist's brush to keep the section from rolling, but more
> proficient users depended on them. I learned to use them in a research
> histology lab. We sat at the side of the cryostat by the crank, rather than
> in front of it, and used an anti-roll plate. It was easy to cut fifty
> slides with it, which I required for my research fifty years ago.


Bob Richmond
retired samurai pathologist
Maryville TN

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