Instrumedics CryoJane

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I am writing the listserve to request information about personal experience and opinion regarding the Instrumedics CryoJane tape system for preparing cryosections for confocal microscopy analysis. 
 
Specifically,
 
1.  does it do a better job of retaining antigenicity in tissues that contain bone since you do not have to use reagents to decalcify before cutting them?
 
2.  Does it work as nicely as it was shown to in the demonstration at the Neuroscience meeting in San Diego this year?
 
3.  Is it worth the expenditure of money?  Apparently it requires a motorized sectioning cryostat to be really effective in cutting through tissue that contains bone or through whole embryos.
 
4.  Other relevant information positive or negative regarding its use for immunofluorescent analyses.
 
Thanks,
Mary Ann Asson-Batres
 

Mary Ann Asson-Batres, PhD

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Tennessee State University

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