Precision that holds its edge

  • Blades designed for various tissues
  • High- and low-profile blades compatible with most manufacturers’ microtomes and cryostats
  • Steeper bevel angle profile facilitates fast ribboning
  • Enhanced user safety with unique blade box for loading into Epredia E style microtome blade holders

MX35 Ultra+ Low Profile Blade

Our most advanced microtome blade maintains excellent sectioning quality throughout the blade use with extra-hard blade coatings designed for greater durability and blade longevity.

 

Manage Blades Safely

Epredia’s low-profile blade boxes and E-blade holder for rotary microtomes are designed with user safety in mind. Users can load blades directly without the need for touching the blade.

When paired with the blade handling tool, blades can be unloaded and transferred to the blade disposal slot on the blade box.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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How do I select a blade for my microtome or cryostat?

Many factors affect which blade is best in your application: tissue type, FFPE or fresh-frozen tissue, and the type of paraffin or frozen embedding media used.  If your lab processes a variety of different sample types, consider a blade that performs well in across many different tissue types and applications.

 

The MX35 Ultra+ blade maintains high quality sections in hard tissue 59% longer than the MX35 Ultra blade, based on internal testing. The Ultra+ blade includes a two-layer extra-hard PTFE layer designed for outstanding longevity.

 

Microtome and cryostat blade coatings are designed to help produce clean sections with few artifacts and reliable ribboning. Epredia offers a variety of blade coatings for a range of applications. The MX35 Ultra+ blade includes a two-layer coating with an extra-hard PTFE layer designed for durability. Other blades include hard PTFE or soft PTFE coatings.

 

Histotechs can avoid touching the blade during loading with direct blade loading into Epredia microtome E disposable blade holders when indicated.  Epredia offers a blade removal tool for removing the blade without touching it, and the cartridge includes built-in disposal for used blades.

 

Epredia offers a range of blade options, including low-profile blades and high-profile blades and a variety of PTFE coating options for performance and durability. Most Epredia blades offer a 34° blade angle for precise ribboning, but a 22° angle blade is also available to facilitate extra-thin sections.

 

Epredia microtome blades are compatible with most manufacturers’ microtomes and cryostats.

 

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