Tora,
I would place the tissue in Ruffers solution: 
        95% ethanol		300ml		
	2% formalin		500ml		
	5% Sodium carbonate	200ml		
	Water			690ml
Leave for 24-48 hours.
Process as normal, preferably on a gentle process (low
heat, no vacuum, shorter times)
This should do the trick.
Tony

--- Tora Bardal  wrote: >
Hello.
> 
> I have been asked to examine dried salted/unsalted
> cod sections with LM.
> I would like to have some ideas from you before I
> start. (Not Bacalao 
> recipes:-)  )
> Fixation?.............and what happens with the
> dried muscle in the solution?
> Embedding? Paraffin ok?
> Historesin (or similar) or Epon?
> 
> Tora Bardal					Chief Engineer			
> Department of Zoology, 			
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology
> (NTNU)
> Brattoera Research Center
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>  

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