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PSA® Parafin Sectionning
Kit
For the cutting and mounting of parafin sections |
| PSA® is an exclusive patented technique
to help for the cutting and the mounting of tissue sections
in parafin. |
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PSA®
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| PSA® :
premium quality sections in parafin, a simple and quick
technique ! |
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Place the PSA® tape on the face of the block in the
microtome chuck. |
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Cut. Your section is directly transferred to the tape. |
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3 Roll the
PSA® tape on the PSA® slide. |
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4 Illuminate
the slide for a few seconds under UV lamp. Multiple slides
can be illuminated at the same time. |
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5 Dip the slide
into the TPC inert solvent, peel off the tape. The tissue
section is transferred to the slide, ready for fixation,
staining or labelling along standard histological procedures. |
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6 A very nice
morphology, contrasted staining, no tears, no folds. |
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PSA®
preserves tissue morphology
PSA® eliminates tissue compression, deformations,
folds or tears until mounting onto slides for a perfectly
respected morphology and a reliable interpretation. Easy,
the technique eliminates the use of cold plate to cool
down the blocks and the use of the water pool to flatten
the sections after cutting in standard procedures. The
tissue section is preserved during handling by the PSA®.
PSA® strongly reduces
tissue blocks waste
Cutting tissue sections embedded into parafin is not an
easy operation to reproduce with quality. Tissue texture,
parafin type, ambient conditions make the preparation
of good-enought quality section difficult and waste is
huge, from 50 up to 80 % of the block. It is as much precious
samples that go to waste, every time you cut.
Thanks to PSA®, each cutting tried generates a good
section. You save on time and on frequently rare samples.
The section, sticking to the PSA®, is surprisingly
very easy to handle and to mount on the slide. Better
quality, more reliable diagnosis. |
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PSA® produces
ultra-plane sections for LCM microdissection
PSA® eliminates folds that form upon cutting or
mounting a section onto a slide. Adhering to the PSA®
tape, the tissue section stays perfectly in place until
mounting for an ideal contact between Arcturus Pixcell®
capsure and the section for an improvement microdissection
accuracy.
PSA® provides a
strong attachment to the slide for fatty tissues
Tissue sections adhere significantly differently upon
tissue type and give constraints as to the experimental
conditions to avoid section to be released from the
slide. PSA® slides are coated with a polymer that
cures under UVs and provides a strong attachment to
the section whatever the tissue is wet or fatty. The
attachement is resistant to proteases, alcaline or acid
solvents and most of solvents.
PSA® is quick
and easy to use, ideal for routine work
PSA® technique is delivered as a kit ready for
use including accessories and a starter kit fo disposables.
Disposables can then be purchased separately. Once technique
in hands, the use of the kit reveales simple and quick.
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PSA® kit for parafin section. |
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for use with: |
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A roll of 400 tape sections; |
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100 coated slides; |
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UV lamp; |
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Hand roller; |
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TPC reservoir; |
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TPC solvent can. |
Produc reference 02-PSA. |
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