RE: help w/ cornea staining

From:"Monson, Frederick C."

Hi Tamara,

In times past when having trouble with eosin 'fasatness', I have resorted to
skipping the 95% rinse and going to 100% directly.  When using alcoholic
Eosin, this works like a charm to 'keep' the eosin in the tissue where it is
wanted.  I would hope it might do the same for aqueous eosin.  Right from
the stain to 100%!

Hope this is of help,

Fred Monson

Frederick C. Monson, PhD   
Center for Advanced Scientific Imaging
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West Chester University
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> ----------
> From: 	Tamara Howard
> Sent: 	Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: 	HistoNet
> Subject: 	help w/ cornea staining
> 
> I need help!! I'm trying to stain cornea sections (formaldehyde-fixed,
> embedded in paraffin) for several things, but am having the most trouble
> with the "plain" staining - my H&Es are garbage. I've tried several
> formulations for both stains and several different staining protocols, but
> the collagen isn't holding the eosin very well when I go back to dehydrate
> before mounting (the hematoxylin is fine). Any tricks to mordant the
> eosin? Anyone have another favorite cornea stain (other than H&E)? We just
> need sort of a survey slide for orientation, but the MD wants to see
> pretty collagen. The stains themselves are fine (no trouble with other
> samples) and other blocks that were processed at the same time as the
> corneas are fine.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated and will drastically cut my aspirin
> consumption!
> 
> Tamara
> 
> |--------------------------------------------------|
>  Tamara Howard
>  Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
>  University of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center
>  Albuquerque, NM 87131
>  thoward@unm.edu
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> 
> 
> 




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