Foliar analysis as a diagnostic technique in cocoa nutrition. I.—Sampling procedure and analytical methods

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 855-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Acquaye
2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastiaan Luyssaert ◽  
Hannu Raitio ◽  
Pieter Vervaeke ◽  
Jan Mertens ◽  
No??l Lust

Author(s):  
J.A. Maksem ◽  
C. VanDyke ◽  
H.W. Carter ◽  
C.F. Galang

In the last decade fine needle aspiraration biopsy has gained recognition as a valuable diagnostic technique, and its benefits have been demonstrated in large series of patients with almost every type of tumor (1,2). The usual way to collect cellular material from needle-aspiration biopsies is to discharge the needle and syringe contents onto a microscopic slide and smear the material with another slide. The entire specimen is contained on the slides prepared at the time of biopsy. Serious technical difficulties are inherent to this method. 1) Inconsistent fixation, 2) drying artifact, 3) loss of tissue fragments, 4) inability to confirm impressions by a “second method”, and 5) retention of significant diagnostic material in the needle hub. Our technique avoids these difficulties.


Author(s):  
J.R. McIntosh ◽  
D.L. Stemple ◽  
William Bishop ◽  
G.W. Hannaway

EM specimens often contain 3-dimensional information that is lost during micrography on a single photographic film. Two images of one specimen at appropriate orientations give a stereo view, but complex structures composed of multiple objects of graded density that superimpose in each projection are often difficult to decipher in stereo. Several analytical methods for 3-D reconstruction from multiple images of a serially tilted specimen are available, but they are all time-consuming and computationally intense.


Author(s):  
Vinci Mizuhira ◽  
Hiroshi Hasegawa

Microwave irradiation (MWI) was applied to 0.3 to 1 cm3 blocks of rat central nervous system at 2.45 GHz/500W for about 20 sec in a fixative, at room temperature. Fixative composed of 2% paraformaldehyde, 0.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer at pH 7.4, also contained 2 mM of CaCl2 , 1 mM of MgCl2, and 0.1% of tannic acid for conventional observation; and fuether 30-90 mM of potassium oxalate containing fixative was applied for the detection of calcium ion localization in cells. Tissue blocks were left in the same fixative for 30 to 180 min after MWI at room temperature, then proceeded to the sampling procedure, after postfixed with osmium tetroxide, embedded in Epon. Ultrathin sections were double stained with an useal manner. Oxalate treated sections were devided in two, stained and unstained one. The later oxalate treated unstained sections were analyzed with electron probe X-ray microanalyzer, the EDAX-PU-9800, at 40 KV accelerating voltage for 100 to 200 sec with point or selected area analyzing methods.


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