Whole-mount skeletal staining

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1130, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-121

  Rigueur, Diana ^a   Lyons, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcian blue; Alizarin red; Bone; Cartilage; Cleared skeletal preparation; Whole mount

Indexed keywords

ALCIAN BLUE; ALIZARIN RED S; ACETIC ACID; GLYCEROL; HOT WATER; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; CARTILAGE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; STAINING; WHOLE MOUNT SKELETAL STAINING; MOUSE EMBRYO; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKELETAL STAINING;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84927919561     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-989-5_9     Document Type: Article

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