Optom 108 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Tissue fixation, sectioning, processing, paraffin embedding, cutting of paraffin blocks, staining, additional special studies - steps of tissue preparation formalin - Best fixative for bright field microscopy. Routine histology fixative. Fixes tissue by cross-linking proteins, particularly lysine residues. The antigenicity of proteins is preserved. glutaraldehyde - fixative used for electron microscopy bouin - A fixative that is made of picric acid, acetic acid, and formalin. Used in ti...