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H&E Staining of a 2 Year-Old Human Lung D022-LLL-4A4.18

Donor Tissue Kindly Provided by Dr. Gloria Pryhuber from the University of Rochester Medical Center

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  1. For Frozen tissue, rinsed slides for 2X in PBS, then Incubated slides for 5 min in 4% PFA/PBS, then rinsed slides 1X in PBS.
  2. Rinsed slides for 3 minutes in running dH2O.
  3. Slides were then stained in filtered Hematoxylin for 60 seconds. (Gold Standard Harris Hemotoxylin, Acidified, Mercury; Cat # 24245 Polysciences Inc,).
  4. Rinsed slides in tap water until water turned cleared then rinsed in dH2O
  5. Rinsed slides in Lithium Carbonate: 20 dips. (Lithium Carbonate ACS Grade; Cat # 255823-500G Sigma Aldrich). Lithium carbonate is prepared by over-saturating in dH2O.
  6. Rinsed slides in dH2O 3X 20 dips.
  7. Rinsed slides in 70% ETOH for 20 dips.
  8. Rinsed slides in 80% ETOH for 20 dips.
  9. Stained slides in Eosin for 15 seconds. (Eosin Y 0.5% Alcohol Solution, Cat # 09859 Polysciences Inc,).
  10. Rinsed slides in a series of 95% ETOH washes. 10 dips for the first and second washes, 15 dips in the third and fourth washes.
  11. Rinsed slides 3X in 100% ETOH. 10 dips for the first and second washes and 15 dips in the third and fourth washes.
  12. Rinsed slides in 2X in Xylene, followed by 6 more washes in xylene.
  13. Coverslip with Permount. (Permount Toulene Solution UN 1294, Cat # SP-15-500 Fisher Scientific).

Tissue Used: LMH-D022-LLL-4A4.18

Gender: Male

Age: 2 Years

Gestational Age at Birth:  36 weeks

By |2019-09-10T17:43:23+00:00June 8th, 2017|Categories: 02 Year-old, H&E|Tags: , , |0 Comments

H&E Staining of a 2 year-old human lung Donor D022-LLL-4B2.13

Donor Tissue Kindly Provided by Dr. Gloria Pryhuber from the University of Rochester Medical Center

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  1. For Frozen tissue, rinsed slides for 2X in PBS, then Incubated slides for 5 min in 4% PFA/PBS, then rinsed slides 1X in PBS.
  2. Rinsed slides for 3 minutes in running dH2O.
  3. Slides were then stained in filtered Hematoxylin for 60 seconds. (Gold Standard Harris Hemotoxylin, Acidified, Mercury; Cat # 24245 Polysciences Inc,).
  4. Rinsed slides in tap water until water turned cleared then rinsed in dH2O
  5. Rinsed slides in Lithium Carbonate: 20 dips. (Lithium Carbonate ACS Grade; Cat # 255823-500G Sigma Aldrich). Lithium carbonate is prepared by over-saturating in dH2O.
  6. Rinsed slides in dH2O 3X 20 dips.
  7. Rinsed slides in 70% ETOH for 20 dips.
  8. Rinsed slides in 80% ETOH for 20 dips.
  9. Stained slides in Eosin for 15 seconds. (Eosin Y 0.5% Alcohol Solution, Cat # 09859 Polysciences Inc,).
  10. Rinsed slides in a series of 95% ETOH washes. 10 dips for the first and second washes, 15 dips in the third and fourth washes.
  11. Rinsed slides 3X in 100% ETOH. 10 dips for the first and second washes and 15 dips in the third and fourth washes.
  12. Rinsed slides in 2X in Xylene, followed by 6 more washes in xylene.
  13. Coverslip with Permount. (Permount Toulene Solution UN 1294, Cat # SP-15-500 Fisher Scientific).

Tissue Used: LMH-D022-LLL-4B2.13

Gender: Male

Age: 2 Years

Gestational Age at Birth:  36 weeks

By |2019-09-10T17:42:53+00:00June 6th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |0 Comments

H&E Staining of a 3 year-old human lung Donor D018-RLL-4B2.15

Donor Tissue Kindly Provided by Dr. Gloria Pryhuber from the University of Rochester Medical Center

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  1. Paraffin sections were placed at 60oC overnight to melt paraffin.
  2. Paraffin sections were then placed in xylene (Xylenes Reagent Grade ACS Histology/Lab Grade Cat # 399000000 Pharma-AAPER) 3X for 10 minutes each.
  3. Rinsed slides in a series of 100% ETOH washes. 20 dips for the first wash, 3 minutes for the second wash, and 20 dips for the third wash.
  4. Rinsed slides in a series of 95% ETOH washes. 20 dips for the first wash, 3 minutes for the second wash, and 20 dips for the third wash.
  5. Rinsed slides in 70% ETOH for 3 min.
  6. Rinsed slides for 3 minutes in running dH2O.
  7. Slides were then incubated in 3% Glacial Acetic Acid (S101, Poly Scientific) for 3 minutes.
  8. Slides were then incubated in filtered Alcian Blue (S111A, Poly Scientific) for 30 minutes.
  9. Wash slides under cold running tap water for 10 minutes.
  10. Incubate for 2 minutes in Nuclear Fast Red (S248, Poly Scientific).
  11. Wash under flowing dH2O until excess Nuclear Fast Red is washed away.
  12. Incubated slides in 90% ETOH for 20 dips, repeat in different 90% ETOH.
  13. Incubated slides in 100% ETOH for 20 dips, repeat in different 100% ETOH.
  14. Washed slides in 2X in Xylene, followed by 6 more washes in xylene.
  15. Coverslip with Permount. (Permount Toulene Solution UN 1294, Cat # SP-15-500 Fisher Scientific).

Tissue Used: LMH-D018-RLL-4B2.15

Gender: Female

Age: 3 Years

Gestational Age at Birth:  36 weeks

By |2019-09-10T17:56:09+00:00February 7th, 2017|Categories: H&E, Postnatal Human Lung|Tags: , , |0 Comments