It would be best to have the warming block at your grossing area, but the
cooling blocks are not used in this lab except to speed up the gel setting.
Great for Cell Blocks and all sort of mucinous materials to be held together
through processing. 

We warm ours up in the microwave for a few seconds, then in to the warming
block.

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Tobias [mailto:vtobias@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:02 PM
To: Histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Histogel Question


I just received our sample of Histogel. Does anyone have any tips on
using it without Richard Allan's heating and cooling block? Procedure
should be user friendly for path residents. Thanks

Victor Tobias
Histology Supervisor
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA