DGD embedding kit (DG)

DGD is a removable embedding medium (for thin and thick sections) that provides embedment free sections. Good for immunolabeling and high resolution light microscopy.

Advantages:

• Thin or thick embedment free sections can be obtained.
• Sections are easy to cut and ribbons are easily obtainable.
• Enhances the integrity of the specimen as it floats on the water.
• Sections produce interference colors according to its thickness.

Ethanol and n-butyl alcohol are used as dehydrating agents.

1. Capco, Krockmalnic, & Penman (1984). A New Method of Preparing Embedment Free Sections For TEM: Applications to the Cytoskeletal Framework and Other 3D Networks. JCB Vol. 98, pp. 1878.
2. Valdimarsson & Huebner (1989). DEGDS as an Embedding Medium for Immunofluorescence Microscopy. Biochem. Cell Biol. 67:242.
3. Nickerson, Krockmalnic, He, & Penman (1990). Immunolocalization in Three Dimensions: Immunogold Staining of Cytoskeletal and Nuclear Matrix Proteins in Resinless Electron Microscopy Sections. PNAS Vol. 87, pp. 2259.

Technical Data

Kit consists of:

450ml Diethylene glycol distearate* Safety Data Sheet

450ml Ethanol

450ml n-Butyl alcohol Safety Data Sheet

*Dangerous goods