tissue shrinkage
From: | Nancy.Cardwell@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu |
Dear Histonetters,
Once again we have an interesting question and I know someone out there has
a good answer.
Thanks in advance!!!
Any idea how much shrinkage from the original unfixed tissue size occurs
during paraffin embedding?
We are trying to do Morphometric measurements of a microvessel from inside
a human leg nerve.
We were under the impression that the dehydration step results in tissue
shrinkage of about 20%. Does
anybody have a "reference" to shrinkage?
Nancy Cardwell
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Department of Plastic Surgery Research
Nashville, TN 37232-6904 USA
615-322-7266 phone
615-343-2050 fax
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