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Vasiliy N Manskikh1, Eugene V Sheval2,3,4
1Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
Abstract:
Epoxy-embedded semithin sections are useful for the analysis of cell and tissue organization, as well as for the processing of samples for transmission electron microscopy. Because only a very limited number of staining protocols have been developed for epoxy-embedded sections; semithin sections are used infrequently compared to conventional paraffin sections. Here, we describe a simple and reproducible polychromatic protocol for the routine staining of epoxy-embedded semithin sections by adapting Twort's staining method (mixture of neutral red and fast green FCF). The method can be used for the visualization of cellular organization as well as for the detection of elastic and collagen fibers. The proposed protocol demonstrated the best results for samples fixed for transmission electron microscopy, which suggests, as we demonstrated here, that this staining protocol can also be used for correlative light and electron microscopy.
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