Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
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... protocols call for paraformaldehyde (PFA) as the fixative. PFA is a polymer of formaldehyde that, on ...on its own, is not a fixative. However, when PFA is dissolved in solution and heated, it depolymerizes,...formaldehyde. Often people will call the resulting solution PFA, but it’s really just formaldehyde.
Formalin: You...