"specimen mounts"

Supplier: Abcam

After you have finished staining and clearing your tissues using Abcam's Tissue Clearing Kits and reagents, you can use Silicon Imaging Chambers to mount your tissue for imaging.

Supplier: Abcam

After you have finished staining and clearing your tissues using Abcam's Tissue Clearing Kits and reagents, you can use Silicon Imaging Chambers to mount your tissue for imaging.

Supplier: Abcam

After you have finished staining and clearing your tissues using Abcam's Tissue Clearing Kits and reagents, you can use Silicon Imaging Chambers to mount your tissue for imaging.

Supplier: AAT Bioquest

The mounting medium is the solution in which the specimen is embedded, generally under a cover glass.

Supplier: SIGMA ALDRICH MICROSCOPY

CC/mount is an aqueous based permanent mounting medium with a very high refractive index, which when applied to the stained tissue sections can store the tissue specimens permanently without the fading of the chromogens. Because of the superior refractive index of CC/mount, tissues mounted in this medium look like specimens mounted with organic based mounting media. No coverslipping is required with CC/mount. However, if coverslipping is required, dried CC/mount can be post mounted by using an organic based mounting medium. CC/mount permits the long-term storage of antigens localised using organic insoluble chromogen substrates, including AEC, DAB, Fast Red, BCIP/NBT, BCIP/INT and fluorescent dyes like FITC and phycobiliproteins. The high pH of CC/mount ensures increased stability of fluorescence intensity.

Supplier: Merck

Aquatex is used for e.g. LEUCOGNOST stained specimens. For preservation purposes and subsequent optimal microscopy, the stained sections are normally mounted using a suitable mounting agent and covered with a cover glass.

Supplier: Merck

Kaiser's glycerol gelatin is an aqueous mounting medium for microscopy and works well with specimens prepared for enzyme, lipid, and immunohistochemistry determinations.

Supplier: SIGMA ALDRICH MICROSCOPY

Lugol′s solution is a ready-to-use solution that comprises 6% iodine in 4% potassium iodide. It is commonly used as a mordant for Gram staining in bacteriology. It is used for staining bacterial target structures for diagnostic purposes by fixing, staining, counterstaining, and mounting bacteriological specimen materials.

Supplier: Merck

Canada balsam is a commonly used mounting medium to prepare permanent slides for microscopy. It is produced from the resin of the balsam fir tree and its use can be combined with xylene-containing specimens. (Refractive index (20°C) 1.515 - 1.530) Canada balsam is an IVD product and CE registered.

Supplier: VWR Chemicals

Q Path® Safesolv is a non hazardous replacement for xylene or toluene. It is compatible with the Q Path® Safemount mounting medium reference 00647520. It is used in place of xylene, toluene, methylecyclohexane or other solvents in the course of the dehydration stages of histological specimens and during the stages of staining and lamella mounting.

Supplier: Merck

Water-free mounting media, such as Neo-Mount®, should be used for permanent mounting and long-term storage of samples. Slides processed in pathologyl laboratories need to be stored up to 10 years, whereby the staining results need to be stable and fading-out is not acceptable. Neo-Mount®, anhydrous mounting medium for microscopy is an extremely colour-stable mounting medium for microscopy, which is produced with solvents based on mixtures of aliphatic hydrocarbons. It contains an aromatic-free substitute for xylene, thus, Neo-Mount® needs to be combined with Neo-Clear® exclusively. Xylene must be avoided in the mounting step, as it will cause the slides to become cloudy and streaked. In addition, by placing the dehydrated slides on filter paper for approx. 1 minute prior to mounting, any excess Neo-Clear® should be circumvented, as air bubbles might arise under the cover slip. The same pre-condition should also be met when mounting specimens using cover slip machines; in this area, Neo-Clear® can be most efficiently eliminated by incubating the slides for 1 minute in an empty slide rack.

Supplier: SIGMA ALDRICH MICROSCOPY

This is a mounting medium (contains 45% acrylic resin and 55% xylenes) used in microscopy. It is an adhesive and specimen preservative that can be used manually and in automated coverslipping equipment. Special purpose adhesive and sealant for use with glass, non plastic and other non-reactive materials.

Supplier: VWR Chemicals

Cytology fixative specially designed for the conservation and transport of cytology specimens.

Supplier: Merck

M-FIX is a fixative spray designed for the wet fixation of gynaecological and non-gynaecological preparations processed in Papanicolaou staining. It contains polyglycols in alcoholic solution and a rapid and secure fixation of specimens is possible.

Supplier: SIGMA ALDRICH MICROSCOPY

PolyFreeze is a water-soluble support matrix and a form of embedding medium for frozen sectioning. PolyFreeze sections flawlessly at routine frozen specimen thickness of 5-6 μ and leaves no slide residue. It provides for -20 ºC cryostat sectioning in rapid set embedment. This medium freezes quickly supporting the tissue for sectioning at 3 mm and up with no cracking of the matrix at temperatures from -8 °C to -25 °C.

Supplier: Merck

Hard tissue like bones or teeth, and all specimens of calcified tissue like bone marrow punches require special pre-treatment before routine processing by a histological laboratory.