Method for making dried specimens of spiders

Freeze-dried specimens for gross anatomy teaching.

As more and more emphasis is placed on the use of prosected specimens to support teaching and learning of gross anatomy, consideration must be given to developing new methods to preserve human cadaveric material, and in ways which will resist the wear and tear to which they are necessarily subjected. Taxidermists have developed techniques for freeze-drying whole small animals as a method of lon...

Inflated, dried whole lung specimens.

A method is described for preparing fully-inflated whole lung specimens that are suitable for instruction or research purposes. Undamaged lungs are removed from the body and then tracheally cannulated and lavaged with tap water more than 250 times. The treatment also includes rinsing blood from vessels with water. A final filling of the lung with alcohol is optional. The multiply rinsed lung is...

Simple method for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency screening by use of dried blood spot specimens.

The use of dried blood spot (DBS) specimens in quantitative alpha1-antitrypsin (alpha1-AT) detection or genetic analysis is limited because protein levels in the samples are low and they contain components that can interfere with polymerase chain reaction amplification. A methodological adaptation was developed to overcome these drawbacks which is discussed here. The study population consisted ...

Procedures for testing urine specimens dried on filter paper.

METHOD for collection of urine from infants onto squares of filter paper was described as part of a program for early detection of phenylketonuria (1). These urine papers have proved extremely versatile as an aid to testing urine for a number of substances that are excreted as a result of certain metabolic defects, all easily detectable by simple means. Phenylpyruvic acid, phenylalanine, and oh...

morphology of dried blood serum specimens of viral hepatitis