UNITMA Recipient Block (Consumable)

UNITMA Recipient Block (Consumable)

• The patented recipient block is made of special material that melts when heated at 60˚C for 30 minutes.
• Disposable bases - Recipient blocks
  5mm x 20 well, 3mm x 30 well, 2mm x 60 well, 1mm x 120 well

Applications

• Immunohistochemistry
• in situ hybridization
• FISH
• in situ PCR etc.

Procedure

1. Place the reference slide and/or the donor block on microscope stage to position the interest tissue area and mark with an oil pen. 2. Extract (punch) the oil pen marked tissue from the donor block by using Quick-Ray® needle. 3. Deliver the extracted tissue into the intended holes of the recipient block(disposable base) pre-made by Unitma™  with Quick-Ray® needle. 4. Put the recipient block(disposable base) into the embedding mold with cutting section faced down and incubate it in Oven at 60 °C for 30 minutes. 5. Take out the recipient block(disposable base) when it turns completely transparent. Pour the paraffin (64°C) and place the cassette array on top of the paraffin. 6. Solidify the block in cold plate 7. Cutting (microtome) In case of using the automated Quick Ray Master, Repeat the above steps replacing steps 2 and 3 2. Insert 5 donor blocks and one recipient block into the Quick Ray Master 3. Extract the tissue from donor block and deliver it into the hole of recipient block by using the software of Quick Ray Master

Block & Slide

Block & Slide Application

How to Order

Quick-Ray® set comes with one puncher, 4 tips of different sizes (1,2,3 and 5mm diameter), 1 recipient block of each size, a base mold (to hold the recipient block while the tissue cores are transferred to it), and a guide for 1mm recipient block.
Extra tips can be purchased separately as required when the tips lose their sharpness or gets damaged by miss-handling.  More base molds, disposable  pre-made recipient blocks, and guides for 1mm blocks are also available. Please visit our website www.unitma.com for more information or to place your order.  Thank you.

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