Re: Alcian blue and cartilage
From: | "J. A. Kiernan" <jkiernan@julian.uwo.ca> |
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Anita Jennings wrote:
> What is the "product" that stains blue in the cartilage when you do an
> Alcian Blue/ Alizarin red stain?
Mostly it's chondroitin sulphate (which is actually a
number of macromolecular carbohydrates).
John A. Kiernan,
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology,
The University of Western Ontario,
LONDON, Canada N6A 5C1
E-mail: kiernan@uwo.ca
http://publish.uwo.ca/~jkiernan/index.htm
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