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on 1/25/2012 8:49 AM   
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 I am an undergraduate research scientist, and I wanted to know what the benefits are for using paraformaldehyde for fixing U87 glioblastoma cells as opposed to methanol or formalin. In general, why is paraformaldehyde used for cell fixation?

Thank you for your help


Last edited May 03, 2012, 5:16 AM by pundir
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