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Best fixative for... - Statistics
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| Used in Wright’s stain as a diluent | 100% Methyl alcohol | 0%
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| Excellent for fixing wet and dry smears, blood smears and bone marrow tissues | 100% Methyl alcohol | 0%
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| Traditionally, it is the most commonly used fixative in pathology | 10% formol saline | 0%
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| BEST FIXATIVE FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | 10% formol saline | 0%
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| General post-mortem tissues for histochemical examination | 10% formol saline | 0%
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| Preserves enzymes and nucleoproteins, and demonstrates fats and lipids | 10% formol saline | 0%
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| Ideal for silver impregnation | 10% formol saline | 0%
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| BEST GENERAL TISSUE FIXATIVE | 10% NBF | 0%
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| BEST FIXATIVE FOR FROZEN SECTIONS | 10% NBF | 0%
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| BEST FIXATIVE FOR IRON-CONTAINING PIGMENTS AND ELASTIC FIBERS | 10% NBF | 0%
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| Recommended for surgical, post mortem and research specimens | 10% NBF | 0%
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| Prevents precipitation of acid formalin pigments | 10% NBF | 0%
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| It is used for fixing touch preparations (impression smears) | 95% Isopropyl alcohol | 0%
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| Recommended for the study of water diffusible enzymes especially lipases and phosphatases | Acetone | 0%
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| Used in freeze substitution techniques as a solvent for certain metallic salts | Acetone | 0%
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| Denatures and precipitates proteins | Alcohol fixatives | 0%
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| May be used both as a fixative and dehydrating agent | Alcohol fixatives | 0%
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| Excellent for glycogen preservation | Alcohol fixatives | 0%
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| For sputum cytology | Alcoholic formalin | 0%
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| Commonly used for bone marrow biopsies | B-5 fixative | 0%
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| Used for the preservation of lipids since most formalin fixatives are inert to lipids. | Baker's formol calcium | 0%
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| Fixation of embryos and pituitary biopsies | Bouin's solution | 0%
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| Excellent fixative for preserving soft and delicate structures (endometrial curetting’s) | Bouin's solution | 0%
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| Useful in fragmentary biopsies | Bouin's solution | 0%
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| Preferred fixative for Masson’s trichrome staining for collagen, elastic or connective tissue | Bouin's solution | 0%
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| Best routine fixative for glycogen | Brasil's Alcoholic Picroformol Fixative | 0%
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| Good fixative for nervous tissue (astrocytes) | Cajol's formol ammonium bromide | 0%
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| Used to preserve phospholipids | Calcium acetate formalin | 0%
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| Replaced formol-saline as the most commonly used fixative in pathology | Calcium acetate formalin | 0%
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| The most rapid tissue fixative | Carnoy’s fluid | 0%
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| Recommended for fixing chromosome, lymph glands and urgent biopsies | Carnoy’s fluid | 0%
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| It is used to fix brain tissue for rabies diagnosis | Carnoy’s fluid | 0%
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| It is very suitable for curettings (small tissue fragments) | Carnoy’s fluid | 0%
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| Recommended for Chromaffin tissues, Adrenal medulla, Mitochondria | Chromate | 0%
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| It fixes blood, tissue films and smears | Ethyl alcohol | 0%
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| Used for histochemistry especially for enzyme studies | Ethyl alcohol | 0%
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| The most commonly used Chrome-Osmium acetic acid, recommended for nuclear preparation of such sections. | Flemming’s solution | 0%
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| Excellent for nuclear structures such as chromosomes | Flemming’s solution | 0%
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| Permanently fixes fats/lipids | Flemming’s solution | 0%
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| It depresses the staining power of Ehrlich hematoxylin | Flemming’s solution | 0%
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| Recommended for cytoplasmic structures such as mitochondria | Flemming’s Solution without Acetic Acid | 0%
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| BEST FIXATIVE FOR NERVOUS TISSUE | Formaldehyde | 0%
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| Recommended for routine post-mortem tissues. | Formol corrosive | 0%
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| It is excellent for silver reticulum methods. | Formol corrosive | 0%
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| Fixes lipids, especially neutral fats and phospholipids. | Formol corrosive | 0%
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| Fixes and precipitates nucleoproteins | Glacial acetic acid | 0%
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| It precipitates chromosomes and chromatin materials. | Glacial acetic acid | 0%
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| Recommended for Histochemistry and electron microscopy | Glutaraldehyde | 0%
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| Also for rapid diagnosis, usually employed for frozen tissue sections and preparations of bacteriologic smears | Heat fixation | 0%
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| Recommended for tumor biopsies especially of the skin | Heidenhain's susa solution | 0%
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| Excellent cytologic fixative | Heidenhain's susa solution | 0%
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| It is recommended for acid mucopolysaccharides | Lead fixatives | 0%
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| It fixes connective tissue mucin | Lead fixatives | 0%
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| Most common metallic fixative | Mercuric chloride | 0%
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| The routine fixative of choice for preservation of cell detail in tissue photography | Mercuric chloride | 0%
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| Excellent for trichrome staining | Mercuric chloride | 0%
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| Recommended for renal tissues, fibrin, connective tissues, and muscles | Mercuric chloride | 0%
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| Recommended for demonstration of Chromatin, Mitochondria, Mitotic figures, Golgi bodies, RBC’s and colloid-containing tissues | Moeller's fluid | 0%
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| Is both a nuclear and histochemical fixative | Newcomer's fluid | 0%
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| Recommended for study of early degenerative processes and tissue necrosis | Orth's fluid | 0%
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| Adequately fixes materials for ultrathin sectioning in electron microscopy, since it rapidly fixes small pieces of tissues and aids in their staining | Osmium tetroxide | 0%
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| Excellent for glycogen demonstration | Picric acid fixatives | 0%
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| Can be used for fragmentary biopsies | Picric acid fixatives | 0%
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| Suitable for aniline stains and Trichrome method | Picric acid fixatives | 0%
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| Used on wet smears for cytologic examinations. | Schaudinn's solution | 0%
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| Suitable only for small pieces of tissues or one because of its poor penetration | Trichloroacetic acid | 0%
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| Excellent microanatomic fixative for pituitary gland, bone marrow and blood-containing organs such as the liver and spleen. | Zenker-formol | 0%
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| Good general fixative for all kinds of tissue | Zenker's fluid | 0%
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| Recommended for fixing small pieces of liver, spleen, connective tissue fibers and nuclei | Zenker's fluid | 0%
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| Recommended for Trichrome staining | Zenker's fluid | 0%
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