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A new technique for tissue microdissection is described. This procedure, using an u.v.-laser micropreparation instrument, overcomes the extremely timeconsuming manual preparation. The u.v.-laser micropreparation design allows fast, precise, reproducible and smear-contamination-free tissue microdissection. The preparation of the tissue sample can be programmed by tracing out the area to be sampled with a non-destructive 0.5 m W He-Ne-laser aiming-beam. The trace is stored in a small electronic unit, which then guides the motor-driven stepping stage on the microscope in the actual dissection run with the u.v.-laser.
The laser power is adjustable in the range 4 to 40 kW and controlled by a photo diode displayed on an oscilloscope screen. In the tissue slice, prepared according to Lowry, an unlimited number of cells or tissue compartments can be dissected and afterwards weighed. The procedure described offers a broader use of the quantitative microhistochemical techniques of Lowry and of Neuhoff.
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Paper given at the Royal Microscopical Society's European Histochemistry Meeting at Nottingham in September, 1975.
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Meier-Ruge, W., Bielser, W., Remy, E. et al. The laser in the Lowry technique for microdissection of freeze-dried tissue slices. Histochem J 8, 387–401 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01003828
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