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Melamine resins, a new class of water‐soluble embedding media for electron microscopy
Author(s) -
Bachhuber Karlheinz,
Frösch Dieter
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1983.tb04193.x
Subject(s) - melamine , electron microscope , transmission electron microscopy , ultrastructure , embedding , materials science , fixation (population genetics) , chemistry , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , computer science , composite material , optics , physics , anatomy , biology , biochemistry , artificial intelligence , engineering , gene
SUMMARY Melamine‐formaldehyde, a universally used technical aminoplast, can be modified into a water‐compatible electron microscopic embedding medium. The complete processing of tissues—from fixation to sectioning—is described in this paper. It produces stable sections showing remarkable ultrastructural detail.