After fixation in histology tissue processing, comes the second step; dehydration. Water has to be removed from the tissue to render it miscible with paraffin, to make blocks that can be cut on the microtome and then stained.
Today, we're going to talk about clarification, a process that is part of histology tissue processing and typically achieved with a solvent.
I learned lately that Europeans don’t know that toluene can be used for clarification in histology and they strictly use Xylene.
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