A Metal Impregnation Method of Biological Specimens for Scanning Electron Microscopy

A metal impregnation method of biological specimens for scanning electron microscopy.

Blocks of the kidney and other organs of the guinea pig fixed with glutaraldehyde and treated with tannic acid and osmium tetroxide could, without any coating, be observed in the scanning electron microscope. Undesirable charging effect was inconspicuous when accelerating voltage 5-25kV was used. A scanning image of the renal glomerulus was shown and the details of the method were described. Th...

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis and biological control of Ixodes ricinus using entomopathogenic fungi

In the present study, pathogenicity of four native strains of Entomopathogenic fungus; Metarhizium anisopliae, was studied against adult stage of Ixodes ricinus. For this purpose a total number of 180 adult ticks were examined in triplicate. Thirty ticks for each strain and negative and positive controls were immersed in 2.4×107 fungal conidia/ml in vitro. Samples were incubated in separate Pet...

Silver Impregnation for Electron Microscopy

Heavy metal impregnation of specimens for electron microscopy offers a means for differential "staining" of various tissue components and cellular constituents. Of many silver impregnation methods, one of the most useful is Gomori's silver methenamine (1) after periodic acid oxidation (PA-SM) (2, 3). Several authors have applied silver impregnation to electron microscopy (4-7), mainly for the d...

3-dimensional Electron Microscopy of Biological Specimens

Electron microscopy of frozen hydrated biological specimens.

The use of frozen hydrated specimens for molecular structure determination is limited primarily by radiation damage. The radiation damage effect in frozen hydrated catalase crystals has been measured in terms of the loss of electron diffraction. The results show an improvement for this type or:specimen relative to wet hydrated or to glucose embedded catalase crystals at room temperature. Bright...