Chapter 12 - Bibliography

Bird, M. 1995. The Town That Died: A Chronicle of the Halifax Disaster. Nimbus Publishing, Ltd., Halifax, N.S. A history of the explosion caused by picric acid loaded on a munition ship that caught fire in Halifax harbor during World War I, the worst human-made explosion before the nuclear explosions of WW II.

Boon, M. E. and L. P. Kok, (eds.). 1992. Microwave Cookbook for Microscopists. Coulomb Press, Leyden, Leiden, The Netherlands. This gives many of the details that will be useful in applying microwave techniques to your histology protocol.

Gleiberman, A. S., N. G. Fedtsova and M. G. Rosenfeld. 1999. Tissue interactions in the induction of anterior pituitary: role of the ventral diencephalon, mesenchyme and notochord. Dev. Biol. 213: 340–353. This research paper is a fine example of the use of paraffin histological techniques in immunohistochemistry.

Gu, J. (ed.). 1997. Analytical Morphology: Theory, Applications and Protocols. Eaton Publishing Co., Natick, MA. A valuable book to the sophisticated microscopist who needs to delve into immunohistochemistry and fluorescence microscopy. It also has an excellent discussion of the use of a microwave oven to speed up the processing of tissues.

Humason, G. L. 1979. Animal Tissue Techniques, 4th Ed. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco. This is a classic, and still very useful, handbook on histological techniques. It gives very complete instructions on each step in the processing of tissue, as well as recipes for fixatives and stains, and explains what each is specific for.

Login, G. R. and A. M. Dvorak. 1994. Methods of microwave fixation for microscopy. A review of research and clinical applications: 1970–1992. In W. Graumann, Z. Lojda, A. G. E. Pearse and T. H. Schiebler (eds.), Prog. Histochem. Cytochem. 27: 1–127. This guides you through steps needed to adjust the microwave protocol for processing tissues to the particular microwave oven you are using.

Presnell, J. K., G. L. Humason and M. Schreibman. 1997. Humason’s Animal Tissue Techniques, 5th Ed. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore. This is a welcome reissuing of Humason’s classic volume.