help with cryostat cutting

[Ioana Sonea]

brians at interlog.com (Brian Scott) wrote:

>I'm having difficulty cutting fixed and dissected rat hippocampus tissue 
>with a cryostat.  The slices come out with closely spaced cuts and 
>tears parallel to the blade and are too damaged to be useful.  I've tried:

Brian: hope that your fixative was all it was (I read your later posting 
where pf/picric fixed brains worked fine), but if not, it could be the 
cryostat itself needs fixing...Ours was doing the same thing (on tissue 
which had always been fine, with several different operators), and ended 
up needing over $1000 worth of repairs.. In despair, call out the repair 
people..
Good luck!
Ioana Sonea