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Embedding Medium

Known as: Embedding Agent, Embedding Media 
A material that infiltrates and supports a specimen and preserves its shape and structure for sectioning and microscopy.
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2014
2014
Choosing dyes for cw-STED nanoscopy using self-assembled nanorulers
DNA origami used as a platform to study the bleaching behavior of four commonly used fluorophores in cw-STED nanoscopy. 
2003
2003
Comparison of phase contrast transmission electron microscopy with optimized scanning transmission annular dark field imaging for protein imaging.
1990
1990
Contact dermatitis from acrylate and methacrylate compounds in Lowicryl® embedding media for electron microscopy
This report is about occupational contact dermatitis found in 3 out of 6 workers of a chemistry laboratory using Lowicryl… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Melamine resins and their application in electron microscopy.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Melamine resins, a new class of water‐soluble embedding media for electron microscopy
Melamine‐formaldehyde, a universally used technical aminoplast, can be modified into a water‐compatible electron microscopic… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Staining plastic sections: a review of problems, explanations and possible solutions.
Many of the difficulties of staining plastic embedded tissues for light and electron microscopy derive from physical exclusion of… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Methyl‐methacrylate as an embedding medium in histopathology
Methyl‐methacrylate embedding makes it possible to obtain semi‐thin sections rich in detail and without tissue shrinkage. The… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Glycol methacrylate in light microscopy: a routine method for embedding and sectioning animal tissues.
Glycol methacrylate (GMA), a water and ethanol miscible plastic, was introduced to histology as an embedding medium for electron… 
1971
1971
THE USE OF GLYCOL METHACRYLATE AS AN EMBEDDING MEDIUM FOR THE HISTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF ACID PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY
it seemed to be nnore suisceptible to prolounged aldehyde fixations, thuis requininsg lounger inscubatious ins the histochemical… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
HYDROXYPROPYL METHACRYLATE, A NEW WATER-MISCIBLE EMBEDDING MEDIUM FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Aldehyde-fixed rat tissues were variously dehydrated and impregnated in water-miscible 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate (HPMA… 
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