Poststaining Sections for Electron Microscopy

“Dirt” on electron microscopic sections can generally be avoided by the simple strategem of preventing dry sections from coming in contract with any solution with a dirty surface layer. Wet sections can be pushed through the surface layer of such solutions without ill effect. The first and last solutions to touch a section must be dean, preferably distilled water from a plastic wash bottle.

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