Re: [Histonet] APTS/TESPA coating, other slide coating

From:Rene J Buesa



Even if you dilute the albumen after filtering it (during preparation), you will have an increase in background noise.
  René J

Emily Sours  wrote:
  On this note, has anyone noticed that egg albumin-coated slides are better
than TESPA (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane)
-coated slides for paraffin sectioning? We're using them for H&E and IHC. I
assume that egg-albumin would have more background in IHC, but I haven't
tried it yet.

Emily
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