A Quick-Freeze Method for Making Smear Slides Permanent
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- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Stain Technology
- Vol. 28 (6) , 281-283
Abstract
Many types of smear slides can be made permanent rapidly and effectively by substituting for the usual dehydration series a single-step process of freezing the slide on a block of dry ice, placing it immediately in 95% or absolute alcohol, and then mounting it. Advantages of the technic are its speed, the ease of separation of cover slip from slide with a minimum loss of cells, and the superiority of the resulting permanent slides.Keywords
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