UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Several recent waves of interest in leaf architecture have shown an expanding range of approaches and applications across a number of disciplines. Despite this increased interest, examination of existing archives of cleared and mounted leaves shows that current methods for mounting, in particular, yield unsatisfactory results and deterioration of samples over ...

Introduction: Mounting is the final stage in histologically preparing a slide and creates permanent bond between coverslip slide, preventing breakage, air drying artefacts, stain fading. Materials & methods: In this study, fifty slides were prepared, twenty-five of which mounted using DPX twenty five cyanoacrylate adhesive. The assessed for clarity nuclear cytoplasmic details, adhesion pres...

Trypan Blue is one of the most commonly used dyes for assessing cell viability by dye exclusion assays. Dye exclusion assays are based on the principle that an intact cell membrane is necessary for the exclusion of certain dyes. Some other dyes used for this purpose include safranin, eosin, Congo Red, erythrocin, nigrosin and Alcian Blue (5). Pappenheimer (4) was the first to describe the use o...