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A rapid and simple method for electron microscopy of paraffin-embedded tissue
1Department of Pathology, Sahlgren Hospital, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Ultrastructural Pathology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A new rapid and simple method for electron microscopy of paraffin-embedded material is described. The paraffin-embedded tissue is deparaffinized in xylene, stained in a 0.01% toluidine blue/absolute ethanol solution, infiltrated in a propylene oxide/resin mixture, and embedded in epoxy resin. This quick method, which excludes rehydration, postosmification, and dehydration, takes about 3 h and produces results equal to previously described more laborious re-embedding techniques.