title: Microwave-assisted processing and embedding for transmission electron microscopy.
abstract: Microwave processors can provide a means of rapid processing and resin embedding for biological specimens that are to be sectioned and examined by transmission electron microscopy. This chapter describes a microwave-assisted protocol for processing, dehydrating and embedding biological material, taking them from living specimens to blocks embedded in sectionable resin in 4 h or less.
authors.affiliation: Center for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis (CEMMA), University of Souther California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Webster
mesh_terms: D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000379:methods*; D008872:Microwaves; D016610:Tissue Embedding / Q000379:methods*; D016707:Tissue Fixation / Q000379:methods