Shipping ethanol fixed cells

From: David Lloyd (lloyddr@novell2.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 04 1997 - 14:02:42 EST


Dear all

Can you offer any advice?

A colleague in Spain wants to perform cell cycle analysis on cultured animal 
cells for him. We  fix with 70% ethanol at -20 degrees C then store at 
-20 degrees C until analysis. We find that this works well and propose that he 
does the same.

The question is; should everything work OK if he sends the fixed samples to 
us in the UK by normal means at ambient temperature (preferred method)? or 
should he send the fixed cells on dry ice or water ice (preferably not; 
trouble and expense)? We expect transit to take no more than 2 or 3 days.

Any alternative suggestions would also be appreciated.

Regards

DR Lloyd
University of Birmingham
England



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