Re: Osmium Tetroxide
Re: Osmium Tetroxide
Hi Anila,
You are correct, osmium tetroxide does
stabilise lipids in the myelin sheaths and therefore gives much
contraster pictures. It does also good especially for nerve tissue
and for toluidine blue staining. But be careful, the stuff
is dangerous. If you smell it, you got already too much. Buy only
dissolved 4% solution of it, dont try to dissolve the powder. Work
only in fume cupboard!
Good luck
Dimitri Scholz
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Dept. of Exp. Cardiology
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D-61231 Bad Nauheim
Germany
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Fax ++49 6032 705-419
Email d.scholz@kerckhoff.mpg.de
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