PREPARATION OF PERMANENT SLIDES OF INTACT SOFT-AGAR COLONY CULTURES OF HEMATOPOIETIC AND TUMOR STEM-CELLS

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 39  (3) , 1133-1136
Abstract
A simple technique is described for fixing colony-containing layers of soft agar and drying them onto microscopic slides. The method is extrapolated from techniques used in immunology for permanent preservation of immunodiffusion or immunoelectrophoresis plates. Slides prepared in this fashion are eminently suitable for subsequent analysis with a variety of techniques including conventional Papanicolaou or other staining methods and histochemistry, immunofluorescence and autoradiography. The technique may have human diagnostic applications and should greatly enhance both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the biology of hematopoietic and tumor colony formation.

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