Edna,
	My best advice is to contact your local Histology lab talk to the
director and see if you can shadow a professional for some time. Also some
good books are available: Histotechnology a self-intructional Text - Frieda
Carson, Theory and Practice of Histotechnology - Sheehan and Hrapchak, and
Bancroft and Stevens. Good luck!

Cynthia Favara
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
903 S 4th Street
Hamilton, MT 59840
ph: 406-363-9317
FAX: 406-363-9286
e-mail: cfavara@nih.gov


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> powderject.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, August 12, 1999 1:01 PM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	paraffin embedding
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> 
> I have experience with working with cryostat ,but not a lot working with
> paraffin embedding. Recently, we changed to paraffin embedding in the lab.
> Can someone help me and guide me to do paraffin embedding? What do I have
> to do to prepare the tissue cassettes, how is this done? I have the
> concept
> but I want to be sure. How do you use the embedding rings? Is there a good
> book that will show me how to do paraffin embedding step-by-step?
> 
> We are going to use a Citadel tissue processor (from Shandon) and I have
> never used it before either. Hope someone can help me on this.
> 
> Edna J. Gonzalez
> Histology Lab
> PowderJect Vaccines
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