I would like to expand Susan's question to ask if anyone knows the RI
of Mowiol?  Even better, is there a reference or web site that lists
the RI of common commercial and homemade mounting media.  Thanks, tom




>Dear Confocalists,
>
>I would like to test the mounting medium called Permafluor. It is made by
>Shannon Lipshaw, marketed by Immunotech in Europe, and available in the
>U.S. from Beckman-Coulter, product #IM0752. B-C has not been able to get a
>response, from the developer, to my questions . Does anyone know what the
>refrative index of Permafluor is? How does it compare to Prolong Antifade?
>Has anyone used the current formulation to mount thick (350 micron) tissue
>samples?  We're looking at fixed, whole cricket ganglia.
>Thank you,
>
>Susan Krall Krueger
>Center for Computational Biology
>Montana State University
>Bozeman, MT   59717
>406-994-7748
>
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