Microscopic technique

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As microscopic techniques techniques are called, which are applied to preparations for microscopy create.

These include, for example, fixing , cutting with knives or microtomes , staining and in-situ hybridization .

Performing the microscopy itself, however, is not a microscopic technique. Various microscopic principles of light microscopy such as phase contrast , dark field or electron microscopy can be conceptually differentiated from microscopic techniques by being referred to as “microscopic methods”.

Areas in which microscopic techniques are used are, for example, histology , botany and cytogenetics .

See also

literature

  • Maria Mulisch, Ulrich Welsch (ed.): Romei's microscopic technique. 18th edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8274-1676-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).