Cutting Fresh and Fixed Slices
The Compresstome™ family of microtomes are great for cutting tissue slices for electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry experiments. For electrophysiology, it can cut slices with minimal chatter marks to double your slice viability. With immunohistochemistry experiments, the Compresstome™ is better than cryostat and paraffin microtomes.
Other Features
Very soft tissues and hollow organs are difficult to cut with vibrating slicers. The Compresstome™ microtomes can cut these tissues without any difficulties.
Embryonic brain
Embryonic brain is very soft even in icy cold temperatures. Therefore, it is very difficult to cut them into smooth and even slices. With our patented technique, the embryonic brain is stiffened by the compression and is much easier to slice. The VF-family slicers can overcome similar problems in other very soft tissues such as pancreas, skeletal muscles, and intestines.
Warm temperature slicing
Brain tissues are very soft in warm temperature. They are routinely cut
in icy cold buffer with vibrating slicers. With the VF-slicers, you can
cut brain slices in temperatures close to their physical environment (32¡ã
Celsius). Cutting tissues in warm temperature reduces thermal shock to the
neurons during slicing, requiring less recovery time and results in healthier
slices.
Wet SEM
The VF-200 is the best slicer that has been tested by Quantomix for Wet
tissue scanning electron microscopy. Wet SEM requires slices with a very
clean and flat surface to keep close contact with the membrane of the specimen
chamber. The VF-200 is the only microtome in the market that meets this
standard.