Patent ID: 7025937
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: B01L,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for immunological labeling of thin tissue sections comprising: an input section, a supply section, and a treatment section; a transport mechanism which travels back and forth between the supply section and the treatment section in order to transport at least one transport container from the supply section to the treatment section or from the treatment section to the supply section; a carrier plate positioned in said treatment section on which the thin tissue sections are affixed in a defined pattern; at least one slide on which a treatment liquid is applied in the form of droplets, wherein the arrangement of the droplets on the slide corresponds to the arrangement of the thin tissue sections on the carrier plate; each transport container for holding one slide; wherein the transport container has a peripheral delimiting wall attached to a base; and, said supply station comprising a first and a second station, in which the transport containers are stacked, wherein the base of one transport container constitutes the cover of a transport container arranged beneath it, wherein in the treatment section, the transport mechanism lifts the transport container in such a way that the liquid droplets present on the slide wet the tissue sections provided on the one lower side of the carrier plate.