I have never understood the reason for these little bits of cork, which provide a non-heat conducting, wobbly, prone-to-fall-off, interface between chuck and tissue.

Terry L Marshall
Histopathologist
Rotherham General Hospital, Yorkshire


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Subject: Cork discs.


         A question for UK Histologists.
         After many years I'm running out of cork discs for cryostat 
specimens and unfortunately I can't remember who supplied them. Please, 
anyone using cork discs, where did you buy them.
Ian.



Dr. Ian Montgomery,
West Medical Building,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow,
G12 8QQ.
Tel: 0141 339 8855.  Extn:6602.
Fax: 0141 330 2923
e-mail: ian.montgomery@bio.gla.ac.uk