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Contact us if you have questions about preparing or submitting tissues after looking over the guidelines on this page. See the Supplies page for sources of materials.

Collecting & fixing tissues

Specimen containers

Labeling cassettes

Trimming tissues

Freezing tissues for cryosectioning

Histology request instructions

Histology Request Form (*.pdf)

Histology Request Form (*.doc)

Supplies

Slide boxes

We place completed slides in boxes unless instructed otherwise. If you don't provide your own, we will provide them for charges shown on our fees page. We don't recommend carrying slides down the street in folders; it's very easy for them to fall out.