Sounds like absolute luxury to me.  The joys of veterinary histology.  Makes
me miss it!

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	From:  conmac@cc.usu.edu[SMTP:conmac@cc.usu.edu]
	Sent:  Monday, October 12, 1998 3:47 PM
	To:  HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu
	Subject:  Re: processing time

	We let fresh tissue fix between 2 -7 days (depending on how big the
tissue
	is).  We then process the samples for 12 hours.  We have a Leica TP
1050
	automatic processor and we do 10%NBF, ETHO dehydration, histoclear
clearing
	reagent then into paraffin.

	Connie McManus HT(ASCP)
	Veterinary Diagnostics Lab
	Utah State University
	Logan, UT




	>Just wondering:
	>
	>What is the average processing time in your labs for specimens
	>(animal/human tissue) 2-3mm thick, fixation in NBF or formalin,
from
	>reception of the unfixed specimen to the beginning of cutting?
(please
	>state: "processing by hand" or "automated processing")...
	>
	>Thanks,
	>
	>Yvan Lindekens.
	>
	>
	>