Ashley,

how were the tissues fixed? by chance was it a mercury fixative that you ran
through iodine and did not thoroughly reduce in hypo afterward?  


i showed it to someone else in the lab, and they concurred (without
prompting) with your identification of fleas.


rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Haines, Ashley N. [mailto:ANH001@dental.umaryland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:49 PM
To: Histonet (E-mail)
Subject: do you recongize this?


Can anyone help me identify this artifact??
http://people.clemson.edu/~ashleyn/images/artifact%20100x%20small.jpg  They
look like little fleas in my sections.

Thanks!

Ashley N. Haines
Dept. of OCBS
Univ. of Md. Dental School
666 W. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-706-7675



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