Alcoholic Formalin or Penfix  in the processor helps some, if the tissue 
is grossed in at a reasonable thickness..

Featherstone, Annette wrote:

>Does anyone have any suggestions for better tissue processing for fatty tissue such as breast? We are experiencing insufficent dehydration, clearing and infiltration. 
>
>Annette Featherstone HT/MLT
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>Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:25:00 -0600
>From: "Chengming Wang" 
>Subject: [Histonet] My frustrating experience with double fluorescence
>	staining!
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>Dear All,
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>I am new with histology, and  posted yesterday a message of: Help
>needed!!!  Immunofluorescence double staining with mouse lung.  Thanks a
>lot for the several helpful responses.  As asked, I am here putting on
>my concise protocols for your check:
>
>Sampling:  Cut a small cut along the mouse trachea, injected neg 50
>(similar to OCT). Then quick freeze with liquid nitrogen, and the stored
>@ -80; After section with 6 um, slides were fixed with  icy acetone for
>5 minutes. Quick dry, and then stored @ -20 till use.
>
>Staining: 1. Washing 3 X 5 mins; Blocking Buffer (10% Rabbit serum; 5%
>BSA; 0.1% Tween 20) for 1 hour at room temperature;
>                2. Tapping away the blocking buffer, and applied first
>antibody for 1 hour; then wash 3 x 5 min'
>                3. 2nd antibody 1 hour; washing 3 x 5min;
>                4. Mounting media, read slides. Count stained with
>DAPI-mounting media.
>                 5. For double staining, I did the same thing, except
>using mixed first antibodies and mixed second conjugated antibodies.
>
>Designing: Stain 1: Rabbit anti-mouse antibody, and donkey anti-rabbit
>conjugated with Alexa Fluor 488;
>                Stain 2: Rat anti-mouse antibody, and donkey anti-rat
>conjugated Alexa fluor 594;   
>
>My problems:  The individual staining signals are good. But there is
>some match color between two channels. For example, I could see weak and
>similar green signal when I applied Alexa 594. Basically, I could see
>the weak but true alveoli structure of mouse                            
>     lung.
>                       Then I performed double staining, I could see
>lots of signal match between red and green channels, which should not be
>true. In this way, I could see basic alveoli structure of mouse         
>                        lung in both green and red channels. By the way,
>I tried to red the slides before staining and after blocking, the
>autofluorescence is very very weak.
>
>I am really frustrating with this situations, and please feel free to
>tell me how I could figure out this problem. Any of your suggestions and
>comments are very much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Chengming Wang 
>DVM, M.S., Ph.D. 
>Department of Pathobiology
>College of Veterinary Medicine
>Auburn University
>264 Greene Hall
>Auburn, AL 36849-5519
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>Voice: (334) 844-2624
>Email:  wangche@auburn.edu
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