Here is why this tissue slicer is the best choice for your research:
- Produces healthy acute slices
- Produces even, consistent slices
- Cuts slice thickness from 10µm to 1000µm
- Auto Zero-Z patented technology
- Eliminates chatter marks
- Holds specimens up to 20mm diameter
- Removable buffer tray for easy cleaning
- Easy to attach/remove blade holder
- Superior durability and quality
- New build, Low Price
Products we recommend to purchase with VF-210-0Z: To reduce contamination when working with both fresh and fixed tissue we recommend purchasing additional:
Consumables and parts we recommend for quality use include:
- Starter kit
- Agarose tablets
- Stainless steel blades
- Ceramic blades
- Tungsten blades
- Tissue glue
- Machine oil
- Gooseneck lamp
- Oxygenation attachment
- Petroleum jelly
- Fine tissue-handling paintbrushes
- Double-wall buffer tray
- Stainless steel buffer tray
- Standard clear buffer tray
- Blade holder
- Specimen tubes
- Specimen tube kits
- Blockface imaging camera system
Experimental applications of the Compresstome VF-210-0Z include cutting tissue slices for:
- Electrophysiology: For acute brain slices, cardiac or myocardiac recordings, and kidney slices
- Immunohistochemistry: For fixed tissue as thin as 4µm
- Organotypic cultures: For cultured slice experiments
- Precision-cut live slices: Lung, liver, kidney, spleen slices
- Imaging: Fluorescent imaging of slices
- In-situ hybridization: RNA detection
- Electron microscopy: Studies of micro-architecture and cellular anatomy