The purpose of Mounting:
The purpose of mounting is to protect the specimen from physical harm, to protect the section from bleaching or degradation due to oxidation, to preserve the slides for long-term storage, to allow simple handling and storage, and to avoid section damage.
Answer and Explanation:
A sufficiently thin and suitably colored slice of biological material must be placed on glass slides for examination under the microscope. A drop of mounting media is applied to the sections, and the coverslip is carefully dropped onto the sample using tweezers. This process is called mounting in histopathology.
Abstract
Mounting is considered as very important step. Various mounting media are there like aqueous mounting media and resinous mounting media. Various researches are done to check which mounting media is best for mounting the histopathological tissues and suitable for different types of microscopy. The mounting media helps in holding the tissue sample in between the slide and the cover slip. The refractive index of the mounting media is also an important factor. In this review article, we are trying to review the various types of the mounting media with special emphasis on their .The data was acquired from earlier published literature and also from searching the different database like Pubmed and Google Scholar.