RE: [Histonet] gliut/isopropyl alcohol[Scanned]
Expect the tissue is rather brittle, used to be used for electromicroscopy I
think. Wonder if you could secondary fix? Can't aldehyde/ alcohol fixation
be 'washed out' then the tissue refixed in something more conventional?
-----Original Message-----
From: Molinari, Betsy [mailto:BMolinari@heart.thi.tmc.edu]
Sent: 30 November 2004 19:08
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] gliut/isopropyl alcohol[Scanned]
Hi histonetters,
I received samples that have been fixed in a 1%glut / 20% isopropyl
alcohol solution for paraffin processing. I have never heard of this
fixative, I know alcoholic formalin but never alcoholic glutaraldehyde.
Are any of you familiar with this fixative?
Thank you.
Betsy Molinari HT (ASCP)
Texas Heart Institute
Cardiovascular Pathology
Houston,TX 77030
832-355-6524
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