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Making and Using Aqueous Mounting Media, or Why Buy a Premixed Medium when it's Cheap and Easy to make your own?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

John Kiernan
John Kiernan*
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario

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Instructions are given as follows for making five aqueous mounting media: glycerol jelly, buffered glycerol with anti-fade, fructose syrup, Apathy's gum-syrup, and a polyvinylpyrrolidone medium whose composition can be varied to suit the user's needs, For each, hints are given on usage and the preservation of the coverslipped preparations. Media made in the laboratory are cheaper than commercial aqueous mountants, and do not contain any secret ingredients.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 5 , Issue 10 , December 1997 , pp. 16 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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