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3. •It may be liquid, gum or resinous,
soluble in water, alcohol or other
solvents and be sealed from the
external atmosphere by non-soluble
ringing media
4. •The main purpose of mounting media
is to physically protect the specimen;
the mounting medium bonds specimen
5. slide and coverslip together with a
clear durable film. The medium is
important for the image formation as it
affects the specimen's rendition.
6. •Mounting a tissue specimen is
essential for preserving the specimen
during storage as well as for
enhancing imaging quality during
microscopy.
7. •In order to provide the maximum
degree of transparency to stained
tissue sections, the refractive index of
the mounting medium must
approximate to that of dried protein,
i.e., between 1.53 and 1.54.
8. •There are two categories of mounting
media, organic and aqueous (or
hydrophobic and hydrophilic,
respectively)
9. Properties of an Ideal
Mounting Media (Mountant)
•1.RI should be as close as possible to
that of glass, i.e., 1.5.
•2.It should be colorless and
transparent.
•3.It should not cause stain to diffuse
or fade
10. •4.It should be dry to a non-stick
consistency and harden relatively
quickly.
•5.It should not shrink back from the
edge of cover-glass.
•6.It should be able to completely
permeate and fill tissue interstices.
11. •7.It should have no adverse effect on
tissue components.
•8.It should be resistant to
contamination (particularly
microorganism growth).
12. •9.It should protect the section from
physical damage and chemical activity
(oxidation and changes in pH).
13. •10.It should be completely miscible
with dehydrant or clearing agent.
•11 It should set without crystallizing,
cracking or shrinking (or otherwise
deform the material being mounted)
14. •and not react with, leach or induce
fading in stains and reaction products
(including those from enzyme
histochemical, hybridization, and
immunohistochemical procedures).
15. •Finally, once set, the mountant should
remain stable (in terms of the features
listed above).
17. Resinous/non-
aqueous/adhesive media
•These are natural or synthetic resins
dissolved in benzene, toluene or
xylene and are used when a permanent
mount is required and frequently used
in routine H and E staining procedures
18. •In general, adhesives harden through
solvent evaporation and thereby fix
the accompanying coverslip to the
slide.
19. •During this process the RI of the
medium alters, moving away from
that of the solvent and toward that of
the dry mountant.
21. Canada balsam: (RI = 1.54)
•Canada balsam is an oleoresin
obtained from the bark of the fir
Abiesbalsamea (of the family
Pinaceae), native to North America.
22. •The dried resin is freely soluble in
xylene and other organic solvents. The
standard mountant for histology and
also for taxonomy, be it zoological or
botanical is Canada balsam, a now
scarce and very expensive natural
resin
23. •It is the most widely used mountant
because of its proven archival quality,
with a track record of 150 years and
does not crystallize or absorb moisture
24. Euparal (RI = 1.48)
•is a semi-synthetic mountant. It is
regarded as good permanent
preservative, proven over the passage
of time, of consistent quality, safe,
quick and easy to use, good optically
with low RI and drying quickly
25. • It does not use the carcinogenic
solvent, xylene and hence being better
than Canada balsam and is used as an
alternative to balsam. Some fading
may occur in hematoxylin stained
sections
26. Dammar balsam (RI = 1.52-
1.54)
•Are similar to Canada balsam and are
rarely used as mountant because of
dirt and impurities usually present and
difficulty of filtering prepared
mountant
27. Synthetic resinous media
•1.DPX (DePeX [Distrene 80: A
commercial polystyrene, a plasticizer,
e.g., dibutyl phthalate and xylene])
(RI = 1.52)
•2.Histomount (RI = 1.49-1.50)
•3.Cover bond (RI = I.53)
•4.Gurr's neutral mounting medium (RI
=1.51)
29. •is a colorless, neutral medium in
which most standard stains are well
preserved. It is prepared by dissolving
the common plastic, polystyrene, in a
suitable hydrocarbon solvent (usually
xylene)
30. Aqueous Mounting Media
•Aqueous mounting medium are used
for mounting sections from distilled
water when the stains would be
decolorized or removed by alcohol
and xylene as would be the case with
most of the fat stains (Sudan methods)
31. • These media are of three types. The
syrups, Gelatin media, and Gum
Arabic media.
32. Some of the metachromatic stains tend
to diffuse from the sections into
mounting media shortly after mounting:
this may be prevented by using fructose
syrup
33. •Aqueous mounting media require the
addition of bacteriostatic agents such
as phenol, crystal of thymol or sodium
merthiolate to prevent the growth of
fungi
36. Glycerine jelly
•This is usually regarded as the
standard mountant for fat stains.
Dissolve the gelatin in the distilled
water in a conical flask in a water bath
and add glycerine and phenol mix
well and store.
38. Apathy's medium (RI = 1.52)
•It is one of the most useful aqueous
mountants for fluorescent microscopy,
being virtually non-fluorescent.
Dissolve the ingredients with the aid
of gentle heat.
39. Farrant's medium (RI = 1.43)
•Dissolve the gum Arabic in the
distilled water with gentle heat, add
glycerin and arsenic trioxide. It is also
recommended for fat stains.
40. Ringing media/sealant media
•Liquid, glycerin, and gum chloral
mount need to be ringed around the
edge of the coverslip to seal the
mountant and prevent escape, loss
through evaporation or oxidation
through contact with air.
41. •Excess monutant from round the edge
should be removed by scalpel before
ringing. The resin moutants usually do
not need ringing as the solvent in the
resin needs to evaporate in order to
harden.
42. Mountants for immunochemical staining
(immunofluorescence and enzymatic labeling)
•The choice of mounting medium
following immunochemical staining is
largely dictated by the label (and in
the case of enzymatic labels, the
chromogen) used to visualize the
antigen.
43. •Aqueous mounting medium is
generally suitable for all enzymatic
label/chromogen combinations and
fluorescent labels.
44. •Fluorescent mounting media
commonly contain antifade agents that
slow down the photo bleaching of
such labels, such as 1,4-
diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO)
45. Mounting media and fading
•Fading of the images is one of the key
factors in diagnosis difficulties and
storage of slides for long duration
with few of the mountants. Various
mounting media tend to fade with
time.
46. •Preventing the fading of fluorescence
intensity caused by the excitation light
is very important for obtaining stable
and accurate images. Several types of
mounting media are available
48. Combined coverslip and
mountant
•Several manufacturers supply a
medium of a varnish-like nature,
which may be used to coat the section
surface, by dipping, pouring or
spraying.
49. • This type of medium obviates the use of
coverslip. For low power microscopy,
combined mountant and coverslip may
prove quite satisfactory although little
protection of the section to abrasion is
given
50. Mounting the sections
•There are many ways to mount the
coverslip on slides, but whatever way
works for one is fine as long as there
are no air bubbles formed.
52. Slide method
• An appropriate size of coverslip for
mounting is selected and laid on the
blotting paper.
• One or two drop of mountant is placed on
the slide containing section preferably in
the middle to avoid trapping of air bubbles.
53. •The slide is quickly inverted over the
coverslip, one end is placed on the
blotting paper and the other end
slowly lowered until the mountant
touches the coverslip.
54. Coverslip method
•Add the mountant on the coverslip in
the center.
•Bring the slide down (invert) to the
coverslip and let the surface tension
pull the coverslip.
55. •Use only enough mountant to fill the
space on the coverslip/slide and not
excess and this assessment comes
with experience.
56. •Too little mounting media will cause
air bubble at the edges of coverslip
and one will be tempted to press down
on the coverslip to ensure a tight seal
57. • This pressure can crush or distort the three-
dimension structures in the sample. Too
much mounting media will make it messy
and move the samples around and it can
make the sample impossible to image at
×100.
58. •due to the very short working distance
of high magnification oil immersion
objective lens.
59. •Air bubbles: If there is one odd air
bubble it may be removed with gentle
pressure but if there are many,
60. •instead of chasing with a dissecting
needle and wasting time, put the slide
back in xylene so that coverslip is
separated and remount the section
without air bubbles