FIXATION 2.0 Flashcards
What fixative will be used for Lipids?
Mercuric chloride or Potassium Dichromate
What fixatives will be used for Phospholipids?
Baker’s formol calcium
What fixative will be used for Cholesterol?
Digitonin
What fixative will be used for CHO and CHON?
CHO: Alcohol fixatives
CHON: Neutral buffered formol-saline or formaldehyde vapors
Double fixation should be done at?
Electron microscopy
This is used for histochemical and enzyme study.
Aldehyde
chemical constituents of the cell
Metallic
Glycogen, pigments, blood and tissue films
Alcohol
This is used for acid mucopolysaccharides and connective tissue mucin
Lead
This fixes brain tissue in rabies
Acetone
This fixes fibrous tissues
Trichloroacetic acid
This fixes cytoplasmic structures
Osmium tetroxide
This fixes and precipitates nucleoproteins
Glacial acetic acid
This is used for the frozen tissue section and bacteriological smear.
Heat
What is the color of formaldehyde (formalin)
Colorless gas
This is a widely used fixative in histopathology today and is buffered at pH 7.
10% FORMALIN
This fixative preserves lipids but not CHO .
Formaldehyde (Formalin)