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Dear researchers, Can anyone help me identify the three large structures found within this lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus, picture? There is a close similarity with the primitive hagfish skin...
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Hello. I am a left-handed PhD student who started histological work 6 months ago. I have some difficulties in using cryostat (Leica 1860) and pasting the frozen sections on slide glasses in...
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I would like to know if it is possible to stain an organ before paraffin embedding. I’m working with fetal rat lung explant cultures (E14 +7) to investigate lung development in vitro. After 7 days...
05 May 2016 5,992 5 View
I need to use the microtome for Techovit thin slices. Is really necessary to buy a new knife holder? Does it worth it? I have a microtome Leica RM2145. Knife holder is quite expensive and...
05 May 2016 8,654 6 View
how to assess platelet count manually in a peripheral smear with only clumps?
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i reserved fish tissues in the deep freezer for a period of time for later fixation and doing histopathology i don't know if this step is wrong or no ? first :- samples were transported to the...
03 May 2016 1,043 8 View
Please anyone guide me with a software that can help me in analyzing my H & E staining slides pics of rat liver sections,
23 April 2016 1,289 10 View
Hi Everyone, I am working on standardising a protocol for mouse EB histology. Currently I have tried various methods to make sure that my EBs are placed in one spot in the embedding wax, but I...
06 April 2016 8,789 3 View
We have muscle tissue sections (approx. 8 μm width) object slides, which are freeze damaged. Anyone aware of a recovery protocol in regards to freeze damage, which works with sections already cut...
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Hi All, I've switched to using prolong diamond and VALAP as a sealant for my coverslips (from using vectashield and nail polish) but I've discovered it's quite tricky to apply VALAP without...
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I am trying to optimize mounting media for IF stains. Vectashield and Prolong are both very good, but very expensive. That is why I am thinking of making a "home-made" custom blend to reduce the...
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Our team is trying to determine the possibility of executing IHC on a slide previously used for histology or vice versa. Thank you :)
30 March 2016 8,837 8 View
Hi, I am looking for a image analysis software for the images captured by Versa 8 image scanner. We were suggested to use ImageScope a free software which comes with the scanner for...
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equine reproduction.
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ultra structure of testes
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How we could differentiate between types of lung cancer histologically?
03 March 2016 5,701 4 View
I used two M2 marker (CD206 and CD163) to identify the M2 macrophage but they had quite different expression patterns in histology. Are there different expression spectrums between M2 markers?
28 February 2016 7,101 3 View