what are you using for your negative control and how are you doing your
staining (manual or automated...which machine)?  what type of tissue is the
patient specimen?
carrie

----- Original Message -----
From: "George, Cheryl" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:57 AM
Subject: Calretinin


> Hi out there,
>    We do calretinin on human FFPE tissue and over the last couple of weeks
> have had two cases where the patient negative control tissue stains just
as
> brightly and specifically as the positive.  Other markers on the same
> patient tissue don't react this way and I was wondering if anyone has an
> idea about what could cause this.
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Cheryl
>
> Cheryl George, BS, HT (ASCP)
> Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
> Elliot Hospital Laboratory
> One Elliot Way
> Manchester, NH 03103
> (603) 663-2686
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