Microscope slides & cover glasses

Cut-edge slides are the economical choice for routine work and teaching, such as the slides with cut edges, approx. 75 × 25 × 1 mm. Ground edges are smoother and safer to handle, and less likely to chip or cut gloves, for example the slides with ground edges and white marking field. A frosted or coloured end lets you write the sample code in pencil, as on the cut slides with frosted edge. For tissue sections and immunostaining, use adhesion slides with a coating that holds sections in place, like the white adhesion slides.

Most high-power and oil-immersion objectives are corrected for a cover glass of 0.17 mm. For that work, and for fluorescence and confocal imaging, No. 1.5 cover glasses are the usual choice. For routine light microscopy at lower magnification, No. 1 cover glasses are widely used, for example the cover glasses No. 1, 15 × 15 mm or the borosilicate cover glasses No. 1, 18 × 18 mm. Check the thickness marked on your objective. Need a specific thickness or size that is not listed? Ask us: sales@luminixhealth.com.

Chamber and culture slides let you grow cells directly on a surface you can examine under the microscope. You seed the cells, culture them, then fix and stain them without transferring them to a slide. The slide culture vessel, 10 cm², with filter cap works this way: after culture, the slide part is examined directly. For assays with several samples per slide, such as immunofluorescence, slides with reaction wells are used, for example the slides with ten reaction wells. More culture vessels are in cell culture.

Many slides are supplied ready to use, so you can take them straight from the box without washing. Keep them in their closed box, dry and dust-free, and handle them by the edges or the marking field to avoid fingerprints. Adhesion slides should be used before their expiry date and kept away from moisture, as their coating can lose strength. If a slide is dusty, wipe it with a lint-free tissue and a little ethanol, then let it dry. For staining afterwards, see microscopy stains and staining solutions. Questions: sales@luminixhealth.com.

A slide is the glass a specimen sits on. A cover glass is the thin sheet over it, of a thickness the objective was designed for. A cover glass of the wrong thickness softens the image. Charged and plain slides hold sections differently.

A light microscope forms an image with glass lenses and transmitted or reflected light. A stereo microscope is the lower-magnification instrument for dissecting and for looking at a surface. Fluorescence needs a light source and filters matched to the dye. Histology is the preparation that makes a tissue readable: fixation, a cassette, a section, a stain. The objective's magnification and numerical aperture decide the resolution. The slide and the cover glass decide whether the section sits in the focal plane. Stains and dyes as substances are identified on PubChem. Papers on the methods are on PubMed.

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