>Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:34:04 -0600
>From: Mary Vaughan <mvaughan@sc3102.med.buffalo.edu>
>Subject: gluteraldehyde - Paraffin?
>To: HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
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>Someone just inquired: If a tissue is in gluteraldehyde, can it be processed
>for paraffin sections? Thanks-
>				Best Regards,
>				Mary Vaughan HT(ASCP)
>				Roswell Park Cancer Institute
>				Pharmacology + Therapeutics
>				Elm + Carlton Sts.  CDC-121
>				Buffalo, NY 14263
>

Mary,
	Post-fix the tissue in formalin or another LM fixative.
Glutaraldehyde makes tissue a wee bit chromophobic.
Ian.

Dr. Ian Montgomery,
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