Capco D G, Krochmalnic G, Penman S
J Cell Biol. 1984 May;98(5):1878-85. doi: 10.1083/jcb.98.5.1878.
Diethylene glycol distearate is used as a removable embedding medium to produce embeddment -free sections for transmission electron microscopy. The easily cut sections of this material float and form ribbons in a water-filled knife trough and exhibit interference colors that aid in the selection of sections of equal thickness. The images obtained with embeddment -free sections are compared with those from the more conventional epoxy-embedded sections, and illustrate that embedding medium can obscure important biological structures, especially protein filament networks. The embeddment -free section methodology is well suited for morphological studies of cytoskeletal preparations obtained by extraction of cells with nonionic detergent in cytoskeletal stabilizing medium. The embeddment -free section also serves to bridge the very different images afforded by embedded sections and unembedded whole mounts.
二乙二醇二硬脂酸酯用作可去除的包埋介质,以制备用于透射电子显微镜的无包埋切片。这种材料易于切割的切片在充满水的刀槽中漂浮并形成带状,呈现干涉色,有助于选择等厚的切片。将无包埋切片获得的图像与更传统的环氧树脂包埋切片的图像进行比较,结果表明包埋介质可能会掩盖重要的生物结构,尤其是蛋白质丝网络。无包埋切片方法非常适合对在细胞骨架稳定介质中用非离子去污剂提取细胞所获得的细胞骨架制剂进行形态学研究。无包埋切片还用于弥合包埋切片和未包埋整装片所提供的非常不同的图像之间的差距。