HISTOLOGY LABORATORY PRICE LISTING
(February 3, 2006)
Fees for LSU on-campus services can be billed directly to an appropriate account number. Federal Government Laboratories must provide a blanket purchase order and call numbers or charge card number before work begins in order to facilitate billing and payment of fees for services requested. Off-campus contract work can be billed via purchase order number or credit card number.
All mailing and/or shipping fees will be charged to the investigator. The investigator is asked to provide a return shipping label with the initial shipment of tissues. If this label or the receiver account number is not provided, the investigator will be charged the shipping costs incurred by the Histology Laboratory. A minimum fee of $15.00 for shipping will be charged.
Slides boxes and slide mailers not provided by the principle investigator will be supplied by the Histology Laboratory and charged to the account and billed.
Custom sectioning and staining for special projects will be priced according to the processing time, supplies required and technical assistance required. Fees will be calculated on an as needed basis.
A surcharge of $ 25 is added to each specimen for rush techniques.
Charges are subject to change without notice due to increases in the costs of supplies required.
Group I: $5.00
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Acid Fast Bacilli (Ziehl-Neelsen), Colloidal Iron, Congo Red, Gomori’s Iron, Gridley, Hall’s Bilirubin, Melanin Bleach, Periodic Acid-Schiff (PAS), Rubeanic Acid - copper, Rodanine, Toluidine Blue. |
Group II: $8.00 |
Alcian Blue, pH 2.5, Alcian Blue, pH 1.0, Alizarin Red S, Cresyl Violet Acetate, Feulgen Reaction, Fite, Gimenez, Giemsa, Gram, Luxol Fast Blue, Macchiavello, Mucicarmine, Oil Red O, PAS with diastase, Pizzalato’s Calcium Oxalate, Phosphotungstic Acid - Hematoxylin (PTAH), Sudan Black B, Trichrome. |
Group III: $5.00
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Churukian-Schenk, Fontana-Masson, Grimelius, Grocott’s Methenamine Silver (GMS), Hematoxylin - Basic Fuchsin - Picric Acid, Methyl-Green Pyronin, Putchler-Sweet – hemosiderin, Safranin O-Hematoxylin-Light Green, Schmorl’s Reduction Test, Verhoeff-vanGieson, von Kossa - calcium. |
Group IV: $16.00 |
Chrome Alum Hematoxylin – Phloxine, DNAase Digestion, Dopa Oxidase, Gomori’s Aldehyde Fuchsin, Movat Pentachrome, RNAase digestion, PAS-Orange G, Periodic Acid-Methenamine Silver (PAMS), Sevier Munger, Snook’s Reticulum, Steiner and Steiner, Warthin-Starry. |
Group V: $20.00 |
Bodian, Chloroacetate Esterase, Holmes, Holzer, Myeloperoxidase, NADPH. |
Group VI: $40.00 |
Acid Phosphatase, Adenosine Triphosphatase, Alkalin Phosphatase, Bielschowsky, Naphthol Acetate Esterase, Naphthol Butyrate Esterase, Pal-Weigert. |
PARAFFIN TECHNIQUES
Grossing Fees: |
Diagnostic Biopsies: 1-3 specimens $ 23.00
4-5 specimens $ 28.00
6 + specimens $ 33.00
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Research: |
Single tissue, cutting tissue, labeling cassette $ 1.00 / specimen
necropsy in a jar $ 10.00
Special projects, technical time $ 60.00 / hour |
Bone: |
Whole limb $ 38.00 + decalcification
Bone marrow $ 33.00 + decalcification |
Pathologist slide interpretation and report preparation $ 125 / hour |
Pathologist slide interpretation, no written report $ 25.00 / slide |
Photograph with interpretation $ 20.00 / slide |
Photograph with interpretation $ 20.00 / slide |
Decalcification: |
Specimen <1 cm $ 10.00 + grossing fee
Specimen >1 cm - 10 cm $ 15.00 + grossing fee
Specimen > 10 cm $ 20.00 + grossing fee |
Large tissues - greater than 1.5" x 3" |
H & E Grossing fee + $ 10.00
Special stains Stain + $ 10.00
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Fixatives: |
Formaldehyde, concentrated $ 27.00/gallon $ .71/100 ml
Formalin, 10% neutral buffered $ 6.00 / gallon $ .16/100 ml
Bouin’s solution $ 65.00 / gallon $ 1.71/100 ml
Carnoy’s fluid $ 125.00 / gallon $ 3.29/100 ml
Davidson’s $ 25.00 / gallon $ .66/100 ml
Formic acid, 5% $ 10.00 / gallon $ .27/100 ml
Formic acid, 10% $ 15.00 / gallon $ .40/100 ml
Formic acid, 15% $ 25.00 / gallon $ .66/100 ml
Zenker’s fluid $150.00 / gallon $ 3.95/100 ml
Zinc formalin, buffered $ 22.00 / gallon $ .58/100 ml
Disposal of Bouin’s Carnoy’s, Davidson’s and Zenker’s solutions is the responsibility of the end user.
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Other reagents: |
Market price + 10%
Special orders = market price +10% + shipping costs
Special orders - also called “other reagents”: market price + 10% and special orders + market price + !0% + shipping costs.
Special orders such as microscope bulbs, parts for equipment, soft goods as base molds, OCT, and other requests will be dealt with on an individual basis and charged according to the above fees. |
Paraffin Sections: |
Process and embed only $ 2.00 / block
Process, embed, cut, stain, coverslip, label $ 5.00 / slide
Duplicate H & E slide, cut as requested $ 3.00 / slide
Duplicate H & E slide, cut with original $ 2.00 / slide
Step sections, H & E $ 5.00 / slide
Step sections, unstained $ 4.00 / slide
Serial sections, H & E $ 5.00 / slide
Serial sections, unstained $ 4.00 / slide
Paraffin sections for IHC $ 3.00 / slide
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Frozen Sections: |
Preparation only $ 8.00/block
Sectioning $ 5.00 / slide
H & E stain $ 3.00 / slide
Special stain $ 8.00 + cost of stain/slide
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Repair of broken slides $ .50 / slide |
H & E staining - slides provided by researcher $ .50 ea. |
Coverslipping $ .10 / slide |
Duplicate slides mailed to practitioner $ 5.00 |
Immunohistochemical Techniques (IHC): |
Paraffin sections on charged slides $ 3.00 / slide
Primary antibody provided by investigator $ 12.00 / slide
Diagnostic antibody $ 12.00 / slide
Initial set-up of research antibody $ 20.00 / antibody
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Supplies: |
Tissue cassettes $ .10 each; $ 125/case
Biopsy cassettes $ .20 each; $ 80/case
Screened cassettes $ .55 each; $ 130/case
Biopsy pads $ 15/ / bag
Tissue freeze $ 16.00 / can
Slide box, plastic, 25 slides $ 3.00 each
Slide box, plastic, 50 slides $ 4.00 each
Slide box, plastic, 100 slides $ 5.00 each
Block box, Cargill, green $ 19.00 each
Block box, grey $ 12.00 each
Slide folder, cardboard, 20 place $ 7.00 each
Slide folder, cardboard, 4 place $ 2.00 each
Slide folder, cardboard, 2 place $ 1.00 each
Slide folder, cardboard, 1 place $ .50 each
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