Soaking the slides in water will remove the coverslip.  Sometimes it takes
much more than 1 day especially if the coverslip has been on for a while.
You might want to let the slide soak in a coplin jar of water and place it
in a 60 degree oven, the heat may help to loosen the adhesive sooner.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: cklein@mail.mdanderson.org [mailto:cklein@mail.mdanderson.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:17 PM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Re: Coverslip removal


Could anyone recommend a method to remove a coverslip that has been mounted
with
the water based media Aquamount?  The only thing I can think of would be to
soak
it in water overnight and the try to carefully pry it off.  This is a
regular
glass coverslip on a plus charged slide.

Thanking you in advance
Christine Klein
MD Anderson Cancer Center