Mackenzie Hepker

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Does anyone know what this sectioning artifact is?

Frozen sectioning via microtome, sections 40 um thick. I am wondering if it looks like the sections are thinner in those ventral, whiter spots (perhaps from the tissue warming too much in that...

07 December 2022 9,266 4 View

Bubbles forming between frozen section and slide after H2O2 -- any advice?

Hi there, Recently I've been encountering a problem with frozen/fixed-frozen brain blocks embedded in OCT and sectioned with a cryostat. While the sections look fine after mounting them onto...

14 August 2018 7,046 4 View

A classic: tissue falling off charged slides. Help?

Hi all, We're having an issue during IHC with celloidin-treated, paraffin-processed human brainstem tissue sections, one that does not occur with our typical paraffin-processed sections. The...

06 March 2018 9,362 7 View