How to Use Dpx Mountant?

Place your slide on the mounting platform in the hood and get a blank slide (supply kept in the hood) ready to use for pressing down on the cover glass in a later step. Xylene is highly volatile and the tissue can dry out very quickly. Add DPX promptly to the tissue to prevent it from drying out.

How do you dilute DPX?

I do not have experience using DPX. 3. Dilution of mounting medium- the recommended dilution is 1:3 (e.g. 1 part EUKITT diluted with 2 parts xylene) prior to mounting. Using too much xylene renders the resinous medium too thin.

What is DPX cytology?

Simply, DPX is a mounting medium. Mounting medium is used to attach a coverslip to a microscope slide to protect the tissue during microscopy and storage. ... This allows for clear and non-distorted viewing of the specimen under the microscope.